Rhodococcus erythropolis (Gray and Thornton 1928) Goodfellow and Alderson 1979
IEGM 19
Coidentity: IMV Ac-60
<- I.B. Ivshina, IMV 201 <- O.A. Nesterenko, 201. Isolated from: oil-polluted soil, Ukraine. Taxonomy/description: demonstrates the reaction of complete identity with polyclonal antiserum against Rhodococcus erythropolis IEGM 7T(4); shows positive result with Rhodococcus erythropolis primers in species-specific PCR (245). Properties: uses normal hydrocarbons, aliphatic alcohols (butan-2-ol, ethanol, propan-2-ol), aromatic hydrocarbons (oxybenzene) and phenylacetic acid as sole carbon source. (Medium 8 or 15, 16, 28oC).