Rhodococcus rhodochrous (Zopf 1891) Tsukamura 1974

IEGM 107

Coidentity: UCM Ac-171, VKPM Ac-2065

<- 1980, I.B. Ivshina, IEGM (“Gordonia rubripertincta”), IMV 73 <- O.A. Nesterenko, IMV 73 (“Rhodococcus rubropertinctus”). Isolated from: water, the Dnieper river, Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine. Taxonomy/description: shows positive result with Rhodococcus rhodochrous primers in species-specific PCR; 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis (GenBank accession number MG585109). Properties: uses n-hexadecane as a sole carbon source; degrades dehydroabietic acid (28, 407, 424); resistant to Pb²⁺ (10.0 mM), Cr⁶⁺, Cu²⁺ (5.0 mM). (Medium: 2 or 8, 28°C).

Medium: 2, 8

Reference(s): 3, 28, 407, 419, 424