Rhodococcus coprophilus UTS

Han, Ji-Hye, Baek, Kiwoon, Hwang, Seoni & Lee, Yoon Jong Nam and Mi-Hwa, 2020, A report of 35 unrecorded bacterial species isolated from sediment in Korea, Journal of Species Research 9 (4), pp. 362-374 : 365

Description of Rhodococcus coprophilus UTS 6-49

Cells are Gram-stain-positive, non-flagellated, spore forming, and rod-shaped. Colonies grown on Reasoner’s 2A agar (R2A) are circular, crateriform, and pinkish-orange colored after incubation 2-3 days at 30°C. Positive for reduction of nitrates, and urease in API 20NE, but negative for oxidase, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase. D-Glucose, and D-mannose are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not L-arabinose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain UTS6-49 (= NNIBR2017301BA36) was isolated from sediment of the Taehwagang River, Ulsan, Korea. The GenBank accession number of 16S rRNA gene sequence is MG780332.