Polyamine synthetic ability of the eubacteria Halococcus acetoinfaciens, Halococcus agglomeratus, and Halococcus nondenitrificans

Polyamines of 97 strains (60 species) belonging to 18 genera of the family Enterobacteriaceae were determined by high performance liquid chromatographic analysis. In addition to putrescine and cadavarine, diaminopropane was widely distributed in Enterobacteriaceae and almost ubiquitously within Enterobacter, Pantoea, Erwinia, Leminorella, Proteus, Leclercia, Morganella, Klebsiella, Hafnia, Rahnella, Serratia, and Tatumella species and sporadically within Citrobacter, Escherichia, Moellerella, Providencia, Yokenella, and Yersinia species. Histamine was detected in some cultures of Proteus and Morganella. Agmatine was sporadically spread. Heterogeneity in the occurrence of spermidine was observed within the spermidine-containing cultures. Distribution profiles of 18 genera. Acetylated spermidine was found concomitantly in the spermidine-containing cultures. Distribution profiles of diaminopropane, spermidine, and acetylspermidine in Enterobacteriaceae can serve as a chemotaxonomic marker to distinguish this family from other taxa of the gamma subclass of the class Proteobacteria.

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Taxonomic significance of polyamine synthesis in Paracoccus.

Hamana¹,

Matsuzaki²

1992

J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol.

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Five Paracoccus species, P. denitrificans, P. alcaliphilus, P. aminophilus, P. aminovorans and P. kocurii, ubiquitously contained putrescine and spermidine as major polyamines. Spermine and cadaverine were detected sporadically in some strains as a minor component. All the strains of these species produced norspermidine from diaminopropane supplemented into the medium and some strains produced two aminopropyl derivatives of cadaverine, i.e., aminopropylcadaverine and aminopentylnorspermidine. The biosynthetic ability of these unusual polyamines serves as a chemotaxonomic marker in the genus Paracoccus. P. denitrificans IFO 13301 decarboxylated E-N-methyllysine as well as lysine but neither E-Nacetyllysine nor d-hydroxylysine. The orgranism formed 2-hydroxyspermidine from the supplemented 2-hydroxyputrescine as well as 2-hydroxynorspermidine from 2-hydroxydiaminopropane but not Nacetyispermidine and N-methylspermidine from N-acetylputrescine and N-methylputrescine, respectively. A halophilic species, P. halodenitrificans, which contains spermidine as the major polyamine and has no norspermidine-and aminopropylcadaverine-synthetic potential, was suggested not to be a valid member of the genus Paracoccus.Two strains of the gram-negative facultative chemolithotroph, Paracoccus denitrificans, IFO 13301 and IFO 12442, contain some unusual polyamines such as aminopropylcadaverine, thermospermine and aminopentylnorspermidine in addition to putrescine, cadaverine, agmatine, spermidine and spermine (S). Ornithine, lysine and arginine were decarboxylated to produce putrescine, cadaverine and agmatine, respectively, but not 2,4-diaminobutyric acid, citrulline and histidine by

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Polyamine synthetic ability of the eubacteria Halococcus acetoinfaciens, Halococcus agglomeratus, and Halococcus nondenitrificans

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Distribution of diaminopropane and acetylspermidine inEnterobacteriaceae

Taxonomic significance of polyamine synthesis in Paracoccus.

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