Rhodococcus ruber (Kruse 1896) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977

IEGM 225

<- 1987, I.B. Ivshina, OEGM GPK 341. Isolated from: soil, Polazna oil-extracting enterprise, Perm region, Russia. Taxonomy/description: shows positive result with Rhodococcus ruber primers in species-specific PCR (245); 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis (GenBank accession number KJ442849); (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- (100.0 mM), VO₃^- (250.0 mM) (286). (Medium 2, 5, 8 or 15, 28^oC).

Medium: 2, 5, 8, 15

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