Proteus

Cross Index	Proteus
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods Enterobacteriaceae
Compare	Enterobacteriaceae, Arsenophonus nasoniae, Buttiauxella agrestis, Cedecea, Citrobacter, Edwardsiella, Enterobacter, Erwinia, Escherichia, Ewingella americana, Hafnia alvei, Klebsiella, Kluyvera, Leclercia adecarboxylata, Leminorella, Moellerella wisconsensis, Morganella morganii, Obesumbacterium proteus, Pantoea, Pragia fontium Proteus, Providencia, Rahnella aquatilis, Salmonella, Serratia, Shigella, Tatumella plyseos, Xenorhabdus, Yersina, Yohenella regensburgei Vibrionacae, Aeromonas, Enhydrobacter aerosaccus, Photobacterium, Plesiomonas shigelloides, Vibrio Pasteurellaceae, Actinobacillus, Hemophilus, Pasteurella Calymmatobacterium granulomatis, Cardiobacterium hominis, Chromobacterium, Eikenella corrodens, Gardnerella vaginalis, Streptobacillus moniliformis, Zymomonas
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

Morphology

Proteus

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram-negative
Morphology	Straight rods, 0.4-0.8 um in diameter x 1.0-3.0 um in length. .
Motility	Motile by peritrichous flagella. Most strains swarm with periodic cycles of migration producing concentric zones, or spread in a uniform film, over moist surfaces of nutrient media solidified with agar or gelatin.
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

Growth Parameters

Proteus

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen
pH
Temperature
Requirements
Products	They produce acid from several mono- and disaccharides. They do not produce acid from inositol or from straight chain teeta-, penta- or hexahydroxy alcohols, but generally do produce acid from glycerol. Hydrogen sulfide is produced
Enzymes	They oxidatively deaminate phenylalanine and tryptophan. Urea is hydrolyzed
Unique features	..

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	Occur in the intestines of humans and a wide variety of animals; also occur in manure, soil and polluted waters. One species has been isolated only from gypsy moth larvae.
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity	Pathogenic, causing urinary tract infections; also are secondary invaders, causing septic lesions at other sites of the body.

Distribution

Genome

Proteus

G+C Mol %

38-41 (Tm).

(Falkow et al., 1962)

Reference

Proteus

First citation	Hauser, G. (1885) Uber Faulnisbakterien und deren Beziehungen zur Septicamie. Ein Beitrag zur Morphologie der Spaltpilze, vogel. Leipzig
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Systematatic	p 491 J.L. Penner
Bergey's Determinative	p 184

References