Rhodococcus ruber (Kruse 1896) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977

IEGM 223

<- 1987, I.B. Ivshina, OEGM GPK 225. Isolated from: soil, Polazna oil-extracting enterprise, Perm region, Russia. Taxonomy/description: demonstrates the reaction of complete identity with polyclonal antiserum against Rhodococcus ruber IEGM 70^T (96); shows positive result with Rhodococcus ruber primers in species-specific PCR (245); (55, 95). Properties: uses propane and n-butane, liquid n-alkanes (C₅-C₇, C₁₁-C₁₆) and aliphatic alcohols (ethanol, n-propanol, n-butanol) as a sole carbon source (95); resistant to VO²⁺ (12.5 mM), VO₄^3- (50.0 mM), VO₃^- (250.0 mM) (286); produces biosurfactants when growing on n-alkanes (C₁₀-C₁₆) (55). (Medium 2 or 5, 28^oC).

Medium: 2, 5

Reference(s): 55, 95, 96, 245, 251, 257, 263, 277, 286, 407