| Cross Index | Lysobacter |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gliding Bacteria |
| Compare | Cytophagales, Beggiatoales Single
Celled, rod shaped Capnocytophaga,
Chitinophaga
pinensis , Cytophaga, Flexibacter,
Flexithrix dorotheae,
Lysobacter,
Microscilla,
Sporocytophaga
myxococcoides, Thermomena, |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Lysobacter |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | Thin rods, 0.2-0.5 x 1.0-15 (sometimes up to 70) um, |
| Motility | nonflagellated, gliding, flexing |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Colonies are highly mucoid, cream-coloured, pink or yellow-brown; many strains also produce a brown, water-soluble pigment. Nonfruiting, no microcysts produced |
| Liquid | Growth in broth culture is silky. |
| Growth Parameters | Lysobacter |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | aerobic. |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | This organism degrades chitin and often other polysaccharides, but it does not degrade filter-paper cellulose, and it infrequently degrades agar. |
| Enzymes | Strongly proteolytic |
| Unique features | characteristically lyses
a variety of microorganisms (Gram-negative and
Gram-positive bacteria including actinomycetes,
blue-green and green algae,yeasts and filamentous fungi)
and also nematodes Most strains are resistant to actinomycin D |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | soil and freshwater. |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Lysobacter |
| G+C Mol % | 65.4-70.1 (Tm) |
| Reference | Lysobacter |
| First citation | Christensen,P. and F.D. Cook. 1978. Lysobacter, a new genus of nonfruiting, gliding bacteria with a high base ratio IJSB 28:367-393 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2083 P. Christensen |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 487 |
| References |