Cross Index Rubrobacter radiotolerans
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare Acetobacterium 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 contrast with Deinobacter and Deinococcus
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Morphology Rubrobacter radiotolerans
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive, non acid fast
Morphology irrgeular rods 9.08-1.0 x 1.0-4.0 um) no rod-coccus cycle
Motility non motile
Specialized structures no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface smooth, opaque, reddish pink colonies that develop slowly ( 1mm diameter after 2 weeks) on nutirent agar
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Rubrobacter radiotolerans
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen aerobe
pH  
Temperature optimum 46-48 oC
Requirements simple nutritional requirements
Products respiratory metabolism use glucose and other carbohydrates but do not produce acid, indole negative, nitrate reduced
Enzymes catalase positive, gelatin is not liquefied
Unique features ammonium sulfate is used as the sole nitrogen source Highly radiotolerant
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat isolated from a radioactive hot spring in Japan
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Rubrobacter radiotolerans
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Reference Rubrobacter radiotolerans
First citation Suzuki et al 1988 FEMS Microbiol Lett 52: 33-40
Suzki et al 1988 IJSB 39: 93-94
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 581
References