Stoecker M A, Herwig R P, Staley J T
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle 98105.
Int J Syst Bacteriol. 1994 Jan;44(1):106-10. doi: 10.1099/00207713-44-1-106.
A toluene-degrading bacterial strain isolated from bioreactors was identified as a member of the genus Rhodococcus on the basis of the following characteristics: meso-diaminopimelic acid, arabinose, galactose, and glucose are the diagnostic cellular sugars; the mycolic acids contain 33 to 36 carbon atoms; and the formation of a branching mycelium is followed by marked fragmentation of the mycelium into irregular rod-shaped to coccoid units. DNA-DNA hybridization analyses performed with type strains of Rhodococcus species showed that this strain is less than 70% related to other species that have similar phenotypic characteristics. On the basis of these findings, we propose that this strain should be described as a new species, Rhodococcus zopfii, in honor of Wilhelm Friedrich Zopf. The type strain is strain T1.
从生物反应器中分离出的一株甲苯降解细菌菌株，基于以下特征被鉴定为红球菌属的一个成员：内消旋二氨基庚二酸、阿拉伯糖、半乳糖和葡萄糖是诊断性细胞糖类；分枝菌酸含有33至36个碳原子；形成分枝菌丝体后，菌丝体会显著断裂成不规则的杆状至球状单元。用红球菌属模式菌株进行的DNA-DNA杂交分析表明，该菌株与具有相似表型特征的其他物种的相关性低于70%。基于这些发现，我们提议将该菌株描述为一个新物种，即佐夫红球菌（Rhodococcus zopfii），以纪念威廉·弗里德里希·佐夫（Wilhelm Friedrich Zopf）。模式菌株为T1菌株。
