Cross Index

Propionigenium modestum

SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative, Anaerobic, Straight, Curved, and Helical Bacteria
Compare	Acetivibrio Acetoanaerobium noterate , Acetofilamentum rigidum, Acetogenium kivui, Acetomicrobium, Acetothermus paucivorans,, Acidaminobacter hydrogenoformans, Anaerbioospirillum succiniciproducens, , Anaerorhabdus furcosus ,Anaerovibrio, Bacteroides, Butyrivibrio, Centipeda periodontii, Fervidobacterium, Fibrobacter, Fusobacterium Haloanaerobium praevalens, Halobacteroides halobius, Ilyobacter, Lachnospira multparus Leptotrichia buccalis, Malaonomonas rubra, Megamonas hypermega, Mitsuokella, Oxalobacter formigenes, Pectinatus, Pelobacter Porphyromonas, Provotella, Propionigenium modestum, Propionispira arboria, Rikenella microfusus, Roseburia ceciola, Ruminobacter amylophilus, Sebaldella termitidis, Selenomonas, Sporomusa, Succinimonas amylolytica, Succinivibrio dextrinosolvens, Syntrophobacter wolinii, Syntrophomonas, Thermobacteroides, Thermosipho africanus, Thermotoga, Tissierella praeacuta, Wolinella, Zymophilus
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Propionigenium modestum

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	short rods (0.5-0.6 x 0.5-2.0 um) with round ends, occuring singly, in pairs, or short chains
Motility	nonmotile
Specialized structures	no spores

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Propionigenium modestum

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph
Oxygen	anaerobe
pH
Temperature	optimum 33 oC
Requirements
Products	uses short chain orgainic acids for growth and produces propionate as the principal end product
Enzymes
Unique features	lacks cytochromes

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	isolated from marine and freshwater muds and from human saliva
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Propionigenium modestum

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Propionigenium modestum

First Citation	Schink and Pfennig 1982 Arch Microbiol 133:209-216 Schink and Pfennig 1983 IJSB 33:896
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 300

References