Table 1 Differential characteristics of the genera Gluconacetobacter and Komagatabacter. Gluconacetobacter strains: 1 Gluconacetobacter liquefaciens NBRC 12388T (Navarro and Komagata 1999), 2 G. diazotrophicus LMG 7603T (Gillis et al. 1989), 3 G. sacchari strain SRI 1794T (Franke et al. 1999), 4 G. johannae strain CFN-Cf55T (Fuentes-Ramírez et al. 2001), 5 G. azotocaptans strain CFN-Ca54T (Fuentes-Ramírez et al. 2001); Komagatabacter strains: 6 Komagatabacter xylinus JCM 7644T (Navarro and Komagata 1999), 7 K. hansenii NBRC 14820T (Lisdiyanti et al. 2006), 8 K. europaeus strain DES 11T (Sievers et al. 1992), 9 K. oboediens LTH 2460T (Sokollek et al. 1998), 10 K. intermedius strain TF2T (Boesch et al. 1998), 11 K. entanii strain LTH 4560T (Schüller et al. 2000), 12 K. swingsii strain DST GL01T (Dellaglio et al. 2005), 13 K. rhaeticus strain DST GLO2T (Dellaglio et al. 2005), 14 K. saccharivorans LMG 1582T (Lisdiyanti et al. 2006), 15 K. nataicola LMG 1536T (Lisdiyanti et al. 2006), 16 K. kombuchae strain RG3T (Dutta and Gachhui 2007), 17 K. sucrofermentans strain BPR 2001T (Toyosaki et al. 1995; Cleenwerck et al. 2010)
Characteristica | Gluconacetobacter | Komagatabacter | |||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | |
Flagellation | per | per | per | per | per | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no b | no |
Oxidation of: | |||||||||||||||||
Acetate | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | − | + | + | + | + | + | + |
Lactate | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | nd | nd | − | nd | nd | + | + | + | + |
Growth without acetic acid | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | − | + | + | − | + | + | + | + | + | + |
Growth on:c | |||||||||||||||||
Glutamate agar | + | + | + | nd | nd | + | + | + | nd | + | nd | nd | nd | + | + | nd | + |
Mannitol agar | + | + | + | nd | nd | + | + | + | nd | + | nd | nd | nd | + | + | nd | + |
Production of acetic acid from ethanol | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
Production of a water-soluble brown pigment | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − |
Production of dihydroxyacetone from glycerol | + | + | − | nd | nd | + | + | nd | + | nd | nd | nd | nd | + | + | nd | + |
Cellulose production | − | − | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | − | − | + | + | − | + | + | + |
Production of γ-pyrone compound | + | +b | +b | +b | +b | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − |
Assimilation of ammoniac nitrogen on:d | |||||||||||||||||
Mannitol | + | + | + | − | − | nd | + | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | + | + | nd | nd |
Ethanol | −b,e | + | + | + | + | nd | − | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | − | − | nd | nd |
Production of: | |||||||||||||||||
2-Keto-d-gluconate | + | + | + | +b | +b | + | + | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | + |
5-Keto-d-gluconate | + | − | + | +b | +b | + | + | + | − | − | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
2,5-Diketo-d-gluconate | + | + | + | +b | +b | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − |
DNA G + C content (mol%) | 64.5f | 61 | 65 | 58.0 | 64.0 | 61.8g | 59.0 | 56.2-57.3 | 59.9 | 61.6 | 58 | 61.7 | 63.4 | 61 | 62 | 55.8 | 62.3 |