Arthrobacter humicola
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Phylum Actinomycetota, Class Actinomycetes, Order Micrococcales, Family Micrococcaceae, Genus Arthrobacter, Arthrobacter
humicola
Kageyama et al. 2008.
Species description is based on a single isolate.
Gram-positive cells, having a rod-coccus cycle. Motile by flagella.
Colonies on YD agar are cream coloured. Growth occurs at initial pH values between
6 and 10 and at temperatures between 4 and 34 ºC. Optimum growth temperature is
28 ºC. Tolerates up to 3% NaCl. Aerobic.
Isolated from paddy soil, Japan.
Undetermined.
  1. Kageyama A, Morisaki K, Omura S, Takahashi Y. Arthrobacter oryzae sp. nov. and Arthrobacter humicola sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol
    Microbiol 2008; 58:53-56.
  2. Reimer, L. C., Vetcininova, A., Sarda Carbasse, J., Sohngen, C., Gleim, D., Ebeling, C., Overmann, J. BacDive in 2019: bacterial
    phenotypic data for High-throughput biodiversity analysis. Nucleic Acids Research; database issue 2019.
  3. Huang Z, Bao YY, Yuan TT, Wang GX, He LY, Sheng XF. Arthrobacter nanjingensis sp. nov., a mineral-weathering bacterium
    isolated from forest soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:365-369.
  4. Yu XY, Zhang L, Ren B, Yang N, Liu M, Liu XT, Zhang LX, Ding LX. Arthrobacter liuii sp. nov., resuscitated from Xinjiang desert soil.
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:896-901.
Positive results for acid phosphatase, arginine dihydrolase, catalase, cystine arylamidase, esculin hydrolysis, esterase (C4), esterase
lipase (C8) (weak reaction), alpha-galactosidase, alpha-glucosidase, beta-galactosidase (weak reaction), beta-glucosidase (weak
reaction), gelatin hydrolysis, leucine arylamidase, lipase (C14) (weak reaction), alpha-mannosidase (weak reaction),
naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, oxidase, L-tyrosine hydrolysis, valine arylamidase  (weak reaction), xanthine, hypoxanthine, acid
production from arbutin, amygdalin, D-cellobiose, esculin ferric citrate, D-fructose, glycerol, D-glucose, D-galactose, D-mannose,
maltose, melezitose, melibiose, raffinose, L-rhamnose, and sucrose.
Can utilize as sole carbon source D-glucose, D-mannitol, mannose, maltose, potassium gluconate and malic acid.
Can assimilate D-glucose, D-xylose, raffinose, melibiose, D-mannitol, L-rhamnose, L-inositol and sucrose.

Negative results for alkaline phosphatase, casein hydrolysis, chymotrypsin, alpha-fucosidase, beta-glucuronidase, H
2S production,
indole production, methyl red test, nitrate reduction, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, pyrrolidonyl arylamidase, starch hydrolysis, Tween
80 hydrolysis, trypsin, urease (positive in Huang's paper), Voges-Proskauer test, acid production from D- and L-arabinose, D-adonitol,
D- and L-arabitol, dulcitol, erythritol, D- and L-fucose, glycogen, gentiobiose, gluconate, N-acetylglucosamine, inositol, inulin, 2- and
5-ketogluconate, lactose, D-lyxose, methyl alpha-D-mannopyranoside, D-ribose, L-sorbose, salicin, starch, trehalose, D-tagatose,
turanose, methyl beta-D-xylopranoside, xylitol, D- and L-xylose,
No utilization of L-arabinose, citrate, capric acid, N-acetylglucosamine, and adipic acid.
No assimilation of L-arabinose and cellulose.
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