Methylobacterium soli KSM

Kim, Dong-Uk, Kang, Myung-Suk & Kim, Ju-Young Kim and Myung Kyum, 2017, The first record of nine bacterial species belonging to the phylum Proteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 6 (3), pp. 214-223 : 219

Description of Methylobacterium soli KSM 3-9

Cell is Gram-stain-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are pinkish-colored after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. In the GN3 microplates, formic acid, D-fructose 6-PO4, D-fucose, L-fucose, Dgalactose, glucuronamide, D-glucuronic acid, L-glutamic acid, glycerol, α-keto-glutaric acid, L-lactic acid, Dmalic acid, L-malic acid, methyl pyruvate, L-rhamnose, D-saccharic acid and L-serine are utilized as sole carbon source. But acetic acid, acetoacetic acid, N -acetyl-D-galactosamine, N -acetyl-D-mannosamine, N -acetyl-neuraminic acid, N -acetyl-D-glucosamine, L-alanine, γ-amino-butryric acid, D-arabitol, L-arginine, D-aspartic acid, L-aspartic acid, bromo-succinic acid, D-cellobiose, citric acid, dextrin, D-fructose, L-galactonic acid lactone, Dgalacturonic acid, gelatin, gentiobiose, D-gluconic acid, α-D-glucose, D-glucose-6-PO4, L-histidine, α-hydroxybutyric acid, β-hydroxy-D,L-butyric acid, p-hydroxy-phenylacetic acid, inosine, α-keto-butyric acid, D-lactic acid methyl ester, α-D-lactose, D-maltose, D-mannitol, D-mannose, D-melibiose, β-methyl-D-glucoside, 3- methyl glucose, mucic acid, myo-inositol, pectin, propionic acid, glycyl-L-proline, L-pyroglutamic acid, quinic acid, D-raffinose, D-salicin, D-serine, D-sorbitol, stachyose, sucrose, D-trehalose, D-turanose and tween 40 are not utilized.

In sensitivity tests, the tetrazolium redox dye is reduced at 1% sodium lactate, aztreonam, fusidic acid, lincomycin, nalidixic acid, rifamycin SV, D-serine, sodium butyrate, tetrazolium blue, tetrazolium violet. But not in the presence of 1% NaCl, 4% NaCl, 8% NaCl, guanidine HCl, lithium chloride, minocycline, niaproof, pH 5, pH 6, potassium tellurite, sodium bromate, troleandomycin and vancomycin. Strain KSM3-9 (= NIBRBAC 000499691) was isolated from a soil sample, Jeju, Korea.