Paenibacillus antarcticus
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Caryophanales, Family Paenibacillaceae, Genus Paenibacillus, Paenibacillus
antarcticus  
Montes, Mercade, Bozal and Guinea 2004.
Gram-variable, rods, 0.7 x 1.5 μm. Motile by peritrichous flagella. Produce ellipsoidal
spores positioned terminally / subterminally in swollen sporangia.
Colonies are slightly convex, cream, nonpigmented, brigt on Triptic Soy Agar. Aerobic,
facultatively anaerobic. Psychrotolerant; growth temperature 4 to 31 ºC, optimum
10-15 ºC. Grow at 4.5-9.0 pH (optimum 7.0) and in 2% and 4% NaCl, but not in 5%
NaCl media.
Isolated from sediment collected in Chlorite Lake on the Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands, Antarctic.
Resistant to lysozyme 0.001%.
Undetermined.
  1. Priest F.G., 2009. Genus I.  Paenibacillus  Ash, Priest and Collins 1994. In: (Eds.) P.D. Vos, G. Garrity, D. Jones, N.R. Krieg, W.
    Ludwig, F.A. Rainey, K.-H. Schleifer, W.B. Whitman. Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume 3: The Firmicutes,
    Springer, 269-295.
  2. Montes J. Mercade E., Bozal N. and Guinea J., 2004. Paenibacillus antarcticus sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant organism from the
    Antarctic environment. IJSEM 54, 1521-1526.
Positive results for catalase, oxidase, hydrolysis of esculin, hydrolysis of starch,
hydrolysis of urea, hydrolysis of Tween 80 acid production from: amygdalin,
L-arabinose, cellobiose, fructose, galactose, D-glucose, beta-gentiobiose, lactose, maltose, mannose, melibiose,
methyl-beta-D-xyloside, methyl-alpha-D-glucoside, methyl red, N-acetylglucosamine, raffinose, ribose, salicin, starch, sucrose,
trehalose, turanose and D-xylose.

Negative results for nitrate reduction, hydrolysis of casein, hydrolysis of gelatin, Voges-Proskauer test, DN-ase , arginine dihydrolase,
lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, indole production, dihydroxyacetone, degradation of tyrosine, citrate utilization,
deamination of phenylalanine, tryptophan deaminase, acid production from: adonitol, arbutin, D-arabinose, D- or L-arabitol, dulcitol,
erythritol, aesculin, D- or L-fucose, gluconate, glycogen, glycerol, H
2S production, 2- or 5-ketogluconate, lyxose, D-mannitol,
melezitose, inositol inulin, rhamnose, sorbitol, sorbose, tagatose xylitol and L-xylose.
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