Oceanobacillus is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped and motile bacteria genus from the family of Bacillaceae with a peritrichous flagella.[1][2][3][4] Oceanobacillus species are commonly found in saline environment.[4]
| Oceanobacillus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Caryophanales |
| Family: | Bacillaceae |
| Genus: | Oceanobacillus Lu et al., 2002[1] |
| Type species | |
| Oceanobacillus iheyensis[1] | |
| Species | |
|
O. arenosus[1] | |
Characteristics of Oceanobacillus spp.
editS.I. Paul et al. (2021)[4] isolated and characterized four species of the genus Oceanobacillus from marine sponges of the Saint Martin's Island Area of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Colony, morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics of Oceanobacillus spp. are shown in the Table below.[4]
| Test type | Test | Characteristics |
|---|---|---|
| Colony characters | Size | Small/Medium |
| Type | Round | |
| Color | Creamy | |
| Shape | Convex | |
| Morphological characters | Shape | Rod |
| Physiological characters | Motility | + |
| Growth at 6.5% NaCl | + | |
| Biochemical characters | Gram's staining | + |
| Oxidase | + | |
| Catalase | + | |
| Oxidative-Fermentative | O/F | |
| Motility | + | |
| Methyl Red | – | |
| Voges-Proskauer | – | |
| Indole | – | |
| H2S Production | – | |
| Urease | – | |
| Nitrate reductase | +/– | |
| β-Galactosidase | +/– | |
| Hydrolysis of | Gelatin | +/– |
| Aesculin | +/– | |
| Casein | +/– | |
| Tween 40 | + | |
| Tween 60 | + | |
| Tween 80 | +/– | |
| Acid production from | Glycerol | +/– |
| Galactose | +/– | |
| D-Glucose | + | |
| D-Fructose | + | |
| D-Mannose | + | |
| Mannitol | +/– | |
| N-Acetylglucosamine | + | |
| Amygdalin | +/– | |
| Maltose | + | |
| D-Melibiose | +/– | |
| D-Trehalose | + | |
| Glycogen | +/– | |
| D-Turanose | + |
Note: + = Positive, – =Negative, O = Oxidative, F = Fermentative
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
- ^ UniProt
- ^ Paul De Vos; et al., eds. (2009). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-68489-5.
- ^ a b c d Paul, Sulav Indra; Rahman, Md. Mahbubur; Salam, Mohammad Abdus; Khan, Md. Arifur Rahman; Islam, Md. Tofazzal (2021-12-15). "Identification of marine sponge-associated bacteria of the Saint Martin's island of the Bay of Bengal emphasizing on the prevention of motile Aeromonas septicemia in Labeo rohita". Aquaculture. 545: 737156. Bibcode:2021Aquac.54537156P. doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737156. ISSN 0044-8486.
Further reading
edit- Kim, YG; Choi, DH; Hyun, S; Cho, BC (February 2007). "Oceanobacillus profundus sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea sediment core". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (Pt 2): 409–13. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64375-0. PMID 17267988.
- Roux, Véronique; Million, Matthieu; Robert, Catherine; Magne, Alix; Raoult, Didier (15 December 2013). "Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Oceanobacillus massiliensis sp. nov". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 9 (2): 370–384. Bibcode:2013SGenS...9..370R. doi:10.4056/sigs.4267953. PMC 4062624. PMID 24976893.
- Lagier, Jean-Christophe; Khelaifia, Saber; Azhar, Esam Ibraheem; Croce, Olivier; Bibi, Fehmida; Jiman-Fatani, Asif Ahmad; Yasir, Muhammad; Helaby, Huda Ben; Robert, Catherine; Fournier, Pierre-Edouard; Raoult, Didier (29 October 2015). "Genome sequence of Oceanobacillus picturae strain S1, an halophilic bacterium first isolated in human gut". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 10 (1): 91. Bibcode:2015SGenS..10...91L. doi:10.1186/s40793-015-0081-2. PMC 4627390. PMID 26523201.
- Wick, Charles H., ed. (2013). Identifying Microbes by Mass Spectrometry Proteomics. Hoboken: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4665-0496-7.
- Pabulo H, Rampelotto (2016). Biotechnology of Extremophiles:: Advances and Challenges. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-13521-2.
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