Taxonomical studies of Acinetobacter species – Cellular fatty acid composition

✍ Scribed by Dr. Y. Nishimura; H. Yamamoto; H. Iizuka

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 164 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0233-111X
• DOI: 10.1002/jobm.19790190411

✦ Synopsis

There have been inany taxononiical studies of the genus Acinetobacter since in 1954 BRISOU and PREVOT created the genus Acinetobacter for t'he non-iiiot'ile group of Achromobmtrr. But, t'he t'axonomical posit'ion of Acinetobncter is not coniplet~cly defined yet, and, therefore, they are tentatively assigned t o the family Neisseriaccae in BERGEY'S Manual of Deterniinat#ive Bacteriology (Eighth Edit.ion, 1974). This study should be an aid in clearing the generic definition of Acinetobacter.

Hitherto we reported that the hydrocarhon-utilizing bacteria accumulated flaviri nucleotides in the shaking cxlture brot,li ; they were Acinefobacter species, and flavjn pigmentation is one of the characterist'ics of t'he Acinetobacter species. I n this study, we discuss uonipnratively the cellular fatty acids of Aciizcfobac'ter species and related bacteria (Jlorazrlla and Jlorazelln-like species). There have so far heen several report,s on the ccllular fatty acids of the Neisseraa species, but no reports on that of the Ac,iiirtobacter or t'he Mvraxella species.

The organisnis used in this study are the following st'rains: As the Acinetobncter species, tlie isolates (strain S5, 8204. and S2012) already report,ed, the new isolates (stmin G1017, G1019, and E2312). and the type strain (ATCC 23055), and an authentic st,rain (ATCC 19606) of Acinetobncfer calcoaceticus. As the Moraxella species, the t,ype strains of 4 species of Moraxella ( M . lncu~t.atcr