Acetobacter fabarum

Heo, Jun, Won, Miyoung, Lee, Daseul, Han, Byeong-Hak & Kwon, Seung-Beom Hong and Soon-Wo, 2022, Report of eight unrecorded Acetobacter species in Korea, discovered during the survey in 2018 - 2019, Journal of Species Research 11 (3), pp. 155-161 : 158

Description of Acetobacter fabarum C10-3

(= KACC 21483)

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, motile, non-pigmented and coccoid rod (0.7-0.8 μm × 1.2-1.9 μm) after 2 days incubation on YPM medium at 28℃. Colonies are round, raised and beige colored with a diameter of 0.5 mm. Catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Positive for aesculin hydrolysis, but negative for indole production, arginine dihydrolase, urease and gelatin hydrolysis. Does not assimilate any of the substrates embedded on API 20 NE test strip. Acid is produced from L-arabinose, D-ribose, D-xylose, D-galactose, D-glucose, D-mannose, D-melibiose, gentiobiose and D-fucose, and weakly produced from potassium 5-ketogluconate, but not produced from glycerol, erythritol, D-arabinose, L-xylose, D-adonitol, methyl- β -D-xylopyranoside, D-fructose, L-sorbose, L-rhamnose, dulcitol, inositol, D-mannitol, D-sorbitol, methyl- α -D-mannopyranoside, methyl- α -D-glucopyranoside, N -acetylglucosamine, amygdalin, arbutin, esculin ferric citrate, salicin, D-cellobiose, D-maltose, D-lactose, D-saccharose, D-trehalose, inulin, D-melezitose, D-raffinose, amidon, glycogen, xylitol, D-turanose, D-lyxose, D-tagatose, L-fucose, D-arabitol, L-arabitol, potassium gluconate and potassium 2-ketogluconate. Strain C10-3 (= KACC 21483) was isolated from plumcot fruit sampled at Naju-si. The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain C10-3 is ON459612.