Cross Index	Cupriavidus necator
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

 

Morphology

Cupriavidus necator

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	coccoid rods (0.7-0.9 x 0.9- 1.3 um)
Motility	motile by means of 2-10 peritrichous flagella
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

colonies are off-white, glistening, mucoid, smooth and convex with an entire edge 2-4 mm in diameter. In the laboratory nonmucid varients may occur

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Cupriavidus necator

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemohetrotrophs
Oxygen	aerobe
pH	optimum pH 7.0-8.0
Temperature	optimum 27 oC
Requirements	organic nitrogen source is not required. Glucose is not metabolized, Fructose is metabolized by repiratory pathway. Resistant to copper. Growth initiation is stimulated by copper. NaCl at 3% inhibits growth
Products	nitrate is reduced, organic nitrogen source is not required but several amino acids, with the exception of L-lysine and L-methionine, can be used as the sole source of carbon and nitrogen gelatin, starch and urea are not used Indole is not produced. H2S is not produced
Enzymes	catalase positive, oxidase positive
Unique features	nonobligate predator causing lysis in soil of various Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria. Can lyse certain other nonobligate bacteial predators. Growth does not nequire the presence of prey species

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	soil
Lifestyle	non obligate predator causing lysis in soil of various Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Cupriavidus necator

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Cupriavidus necator

First Citation	Makkar and Casida 1987 IJSB 37: 323-326
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 80-81

References