Falsibacillus pallidus SSH

Kim, Minji, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Park, Byoung-Hee Lee and Soo-Je, 2020, Eight unrecorded bacterial species isolated from soil and marine sediment in Korea, Journal of Species Research 9 (4), pp. 339-345 : 344

Description of Falsibacillus pallidus SSH 18

Strain SSH18 (= CYQTBAC000000074) was isolated from freshwater sediment in Susan, Jeju, Korea. SSH18 cells are Gram-stain-positive and rod-shaped (1.0 × 3.0 μm). The colonies are circular, convex, and white colored after 2 days of incubation on AR2A at 30°C. Cells are negative for oxidase and catalase activity, and reduction of nitrates (NO 3 -) to nitrite (NO 2 -), reduction of nitrates (NO 3 -) to nitrogen (N 2), indole production, and glucose acidification. Also, cells show positive activity for urease, protease (gelatin hydrolysis), esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8), Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, α-glucosidase, and α-fucosidase, but negative activity for arginine dihydrolase, β-glucosidase (esculin hydrolysis), β-galactosidase (PNPG), alkaline phosphatase, lipase (C14), leucine arylamidase, valine arylamidase, cystine arylamidase, trypsin, α-chymotrypsin, acid phosphatase, α-galactosidase, β-glucuronidase, N -acetyl-β-glucosaminidase, and α-mannosidase. Moreover, cells are positive for utilization of gluconate, and negative for utilization of D-mannose, adipate, malate, phenyl-acetate, D-mannitol, D-glucose, salicin, D-melibiose, L-fucose, D-sorbitol, L-arabinose, propionate, caprate, valerate, citrate, L-histidine, 2-ketogluconate, 3-hydroxy-butyrate, 4-hydroxy-ben- zoate, L-proline, L-rhamnose, N -acetyl-D-glucosamine, D-ribose, inositol, D-sucrose, D-maltose, itaconate, suberate, malonate, acetate, lactate, L-alanine, 5-ketogluconate, glycogen, 3-hydroxy-benzoate, and L-serine as energy and carbon source.