Cross Index	Aminobacter
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci
Compare	Acetobacter, Acidiphilium, Acidomonas methanolica, Acidothermus cellulolyticus, Acidovorax, Acinetobacter, Afipia, Agrobacterium, Agromonas oligotrophica, Alcaligenes, Alteromonas, Aminobacter, Aquaspirillum, Azomonas, Azorhizobium caulinodans, Azotobacter, Bacteroides, Beijerinckia, Bordetella, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Brucella, Chromohalobacter marismortui, Chryseomonas luteola, Comamonas, Cupriavidus necator, Deleya, Derxia gummosa, Ensifer adherans, Erythrobacter longus, Flavobacterium, Flavomonas oryzihabitans, Francisella, Frateuria aurantica, Gluconobacter, Halomonas, Hydrogenophaga, Janthinobacterium lividum, Kingella, Lampropedia hyalina, Legionella, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Marinomonas, Mesophilobacter marinus, Methylobacillus glycogenes, Methylobacterium, Methylococcus, Methylomonas, Methylophaga, Methylophilus, Methylovorus glucosotrophus, Moraxella, Morococcus cerebrosus, Neisseriaceae, Neisseria, Oceanospirillum, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Oligella, Paracoccus, Phenylobacterium immobile, Phyllobacterium, Pseudomonas, Psychrobacter immobilis, Rhizobacter daucus, Rhizobium, Rhizomonas suberifaciens, Rochalimaea, Roseobacter, Rugomonas rubra, Serpens, Sinorhizobium, Sphingobacterium, Taylorella equigenitalis, Thermoleophilum, Thermomicrobium, Thermus, Variovorax paradoxus, Volcaniella eurhalina, Weeksella, Wolinella, Xanthobacter, Xanthomonas, Xyella fastidiosa, Xylophilus ampelinus, Zoogloea ramigera
Contrast	Archaea
Subset	Aminobacter aminovorans, Aminobacter aganoensis and Aminobacter niigataensis

 

Morphology

Aminobacter

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	rod shpaed with rounded ends (0.5-0.9 x 1.0-3.0 um)
Motility	subpolar flagella
Specialized structures	granules of poly- beta-phydroxybutyric acid accumulate in the cells

Division

budding

COLONIAL

Solid surface

colonies are white to light yellos

Liquid

abundant growth in nutrient broth and PYG broth, no water soluble fluorescent pigments are produced

 

Growth Parameters

Aminobacter

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph
Oxygen	aerobe oxidative metabolism
pH	range pH 6.0-8.0
Temperature	good growth 30-37 oC no growth at 42 oC
Requirements
Products	methyl red negative, Vogues-Proskauer negative, indole negative, No H2S formed, gleatin and starch not hydrolysed. Ammonia is produced. Acids produced from sugars by oxidative metabolism. Monomethylamine,trimetylamine and trimethyamine-N-oxide and sugars are utilized but methanol, methane, and hydrogen are not used
Enzymes	oxidase positive, catalase positive, urease negative.
Unique features	no growth in the presence of 3% NaCl.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Aminobacter

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Aminobacter

First Citation	Urakami et al 1992 IJSB 42:84-92
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 75-76

References