Methylobacterium extorquens (Urakami & Komagata, 1984) Bousfield & Green, 1985

Jin, Hyun Mi, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek & Jeon, Che-Ok, 2016, A report of 42 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 5 (2), pp. 206-219 : 215

Description of Methylobacterium extorquens N5

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, pigmented, and asporogenous rod shaped. Colonies are round and pink colored after 2 days on R2A agar at 25°C. Positive for glucose fermentation and arginine dihydrolase and urease activities in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, esculin hydrolysis, and gelatinase and β -galactosidase activities. Malic acid is utilized. Does not utilize capric acid, trisodium citrate, phenylacetic acid, D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, and adipic acid. Strain N5 (= NIBRBA0000114170) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Jinan, Korea.