Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Actinomycetota, Class Actinomycetes, Order Micrococcales, Family Micrococcaceae, Genus Nesterenkonia, Nesterenkonia
populi Liu et al. 2015.
Species description is based on a single isolate.
Gram-positive short rods, 0.5-0.6 x 0.8-1.3 µm. Non-motile. Non-spore-forming.
Colonies are smooth, circular and sulfuryellow in colour on LB-NaCl agar medium.
Alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic. Grows at 10-42 ºC (optimum 37 ºC), at pH
8.0-12.0 (optimum 9.0) and in the presence of 3-15% (w/v) NaCl (optimum 5-10%
(w/v) NaCl). Aerobic.
Isolated from a bark sample of Populus euphratica collected on the southern edge of Taklimakan desert, Xinjiang, China.
Undetermined.
- Liu JM, Tuo L, Habden X, Guo L, Jiang ZK, Liu XF, Chen L, Zhang YQ, Sun CH. Nesterenkonia populi sp. nov., an actinobacterium
isolated from Populus euphratica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1474-1479.
- Wang R, Anwar N, Ding J, Ye Y, Ren Y, Fu G, Chen C, Xu J, Wu M. Nesterenkonia muleiensis sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium
isolated from sap of Populus euphratica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1888-1894.
- Borsodi AK, Szili-Kovacs T, Schumann P, Sproer C, Marialigeti K, Toth E. Nesterenkonia pannonica sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic
and moderately halophilic actinobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4116-4120.
Positive results for alkaline phosphatase (weak), catalase, oxidase, ONPG (negative in Wang's study), urease, acid production from
fructose, D-fucose, mannitol, rhamnose, sucrose, and L-sorbose.
Can utilize as sole carbon source cellobiose, D-fructose, glucose, myo-inositol, maltose, L-rhamnose, D-sorbitol, sucrose and
trehalose.
Negative results foracid phosphatase, cellulose degradation, esculin hydrolysis, H2S production, indole production, gelatin
liquefaction, alpha-glucosidase, beta-galactosidase, milk coagulation, alpha-mannosidase, nitrate reduction, starch hydrolysis,
trypsin, and Tween 80 hydrolysis, acid production from L-arabinose, D-glucose, D-galactose, lactose, trehalose, and D-xylose.
No utilization of D-galactose, lactose, D-mannitol, D-mannose and raffinose.
(c) Costin Stoica