Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 1992

Seiten: 409-419

Zeitschrift: Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Bandnummer: 15

Heftnummer: 3

ISSN: 0723-2020

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80215-8

Verlag: Elsevier

Abstract: 

Diaminopropane was determined as the characteristic polyamine of the twenty species or genospecies of Acinetobacter and generally makes up about 90% of the total polyamines in strains of this genus. Ten polyphosphate-accumulating bacteria were isolated from activated sludge of a sewage treatment plant with enhanced biological phosphate removal. These isolates also possessed the polyamine pattern with extremely high amounts of diaminopropane, characteristic for Acinetobacter. The fatty acid- and protein patterns of these isolates were similar to those of the Acinetobacter type strains and also allows their allocation to the genus Acinetobacter. Physiological criteria assigned nine of the phosphate-accumulating isolates to the species A. johnsonii, and the strain Acinetobacter ‘phosphodevorans’ DSM 1532 to the species A. junii. The isolates exhibited high activities of the polyphosphate: AMP phosphotransferase (PPAT), ranging from 10 to 57 nmol min⁻¹ (mg protein)⁻¹. In addition, the type strains of the clinically relevant genospecies 4, 5, 6, 7 and 12 of Acinetobacter also showed considerable PPAT activities, indicating a wider distribution of this enzyme than previously thought.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Kämpfer, P., Bark, K., Busse, H., Auling, G. and Dott, W. (1992) Numerical and Chemotaxonomy of Polyphosphate Accumulating Acinetobacter Strains with High Polyphosphate: AMP Phosphotransferase (PPAT) Activity, Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 15(3), pp. 409-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80215-8

APA-Zitierstil: Kämpfer, P., Bark, K., Busse, H., Auling, G., & Dott, W. (1992). Numerical and Chemotaxonomy of Polyphosphate Accumulating Acinetobacter Strains with High Polyphosphate: AMP Phosphotransferase (PPAT) Activity. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 15(3), 409-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80215-8