Cross Index	Proprionibacterium
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare	AAcetobacterium Acetogenium kivui, Actinomyces Aeromicrobium erythreum Agromyces ramosus Arachnia propionica, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, Arthrobacter, Aureobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Brachybacterium faecium, Brevibacterium, Butyrivibrio, Caseobacter polymorphus, Cellulomonas ,Clavibacter, Coriobacterium glomerans, Corynebacterium, Curtobacterium, Dermobacter hominus, Eubacterium, Exigouibacterium aurantiacum, Falcivibrio, Gardnerella, Jonsia denitrificans, Lachnospira multiparus, Microbacterium, Mobiluncus, Pimelobacter, Proprionibacterium, Rarobacter faecitabidus , Rothia dentocariosa, Rubrobacter radiotolerans, Sphaerobacter thermophilus , Terrabacter tumescens, Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, Thermoanaerobium brockii
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Proprionibacterium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram positive
Morphology	pleomorphic rods but cells may be coccoid, bifid or even branched and may form "chinese characters
Motility	Nonmotile
Specialized structures	Nonsporing

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Proprionibacterium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	Chemoorganotrophs
Oxygen	are anaerobic to aerotolerant
pH
Temperature
Requirements
Products	fermentation products include large amounts of propionic and acetic acids
Enzymes	generally catalase positive
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Proprionibacterium

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Proprionibacterium

First citation	Orla-Jensen,O. 1909. Die Hauptlinien des naturlichen Bakterien-systems. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 2, 22:305-346
The Prokaryotes	P
Bergey's Systematatic	p 1346 C. S. Cummins and J. L. Johnson
Bergey's Determinative	p 580

References