Serological Investigations of Planococcus Strains

Oeding, Per

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“…These results and the examination of the 8 remaining strains by agglutination and precipitation show that Planococcus strains are heterogeneous with regard to the composition of their wall polysaccharides and agglutinogens, thus confirming the earlier report of Oeding (14). According to the per cent GC content and some other criteria, Kocur (personal communication) has separated 12 Planococcus strains into four groups.…”

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PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SEROLOGICALLY ACTIVE CELL WALL SUBSTANCES FROM PLANOCOCCUS STRAINS

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Oeding

1973

Acta Pathologica Microbiologica Scandinavica Section B Microbio

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From the cell walls of four Planococcus strains polysaccharide and murein were separated and purified. The walls contained small amounts of polysaccharides, murein being the major constituent. Teichoic acids were not present. Both chemically and serologically the polysaccharides of two strains seemed to be identical, whereas this polysaccharide and those from the two other strains all were clearly different. Each of the three types of polysaccharides produced a specific precipitation line in agar gel diffusion. Quantitative agglutination with anti‐murein antisera revealed that Planococcus mureins share antigenic determinants with Staphylococcus mureins but also have determinants of their own, which seem to be shared by Planococcus strains.

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“…Schleifer & Kandler (18) found that the murein of these cocci was clearly different from the mureins of micrococci and staphylococci. Serological examination of whole cells ( O e d i n g , 14) indicated that the strains of marine cocci examined were heterologous with regard to their antigens.…”

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PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SEROLOGICALLY ACTIVE CELL WALL SUBSTANCES FROM PLANOCOCCUS STRAINS

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Oeding

1973

Acta Pathologica Microbiologica Scandinavica Section B Microbio

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“…This analysis was supported by further chemosystematic studies that demonstrated Planococcus spp., as de®ned by Kocur et al (1970), to have similar amino acids in their peptidoglycan (Schleifer and Kandler 1970). Serological investigations (Oeding 1970) con®rmed that Planococcus spp. were distinct from other Gram-positive cocci.…”

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Isolation and characterization of a novel hydrocarbon-degrading, Gram-positive bacterium, isolated from intertidal beach sediment, and description of Planococcus alkanoclasticus sp. nov.

Engelhardt¹,

Daly²,

Swannell³

et al. 2001

J Appl Microbiol

121

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Aims: Characterization of a bacterial isolate (strain MAE2) from intertidal beach sediment capable of degrading linear and branched alkanes. Methods and Results: A Gram-positive, aerobic, heterotrophic bacterium (strain MAE2), that was capable of extensive degradation of alkanes in crude oil but had a limited capacity for the utilization of other organic compounds, was isolated from intertidal beach sediment. MAE2 had an obligate requirement for NaCl but could not tolerate high salt concentrations. It was capable of degrading branched and n-alkanes in crude oil from C11 to C33, but was unable to degrade aromatic hydrocarbons. Comparative 16S rRNA sequence analysis placed the isolate with members of the genus Planococcus. That ®nding was corroborated by chemotaxonomic and physiological data. The fatty acid composition of strain MAE2 was very similar to the type species of the genus Planococcus, P. citreus (NCIMB 1493 T ) and P. kocurii (NCIMB 629 T ), and was dominated by branched acids, mainly a15:0. However, the 16S rRNA of strain MAE2 had less than 97% sequence identity with the type strains of P. citreus (NCIMB 1439 T ), P. kocurii (NCIMB 629 T ) and two Planococcus spp. (strain MB6-16 and strain ICO24) isolated from Antarctic sea ice. This indicated that strain MAE2 represented a separate species from these planococci. Morphologically, the isolate resembled P. okeanokoites (NCIMB 561 T ) and P. mcmeekinii S23F2 (ATCC 700539 T ). The cellular fatty acid composition of P. okeanokoites and P. mcmeekinii was considerably different from strain MAE2, and the mol % G + C content of P. mcmeekinii was far lower than that of MAE2. Conclusions: On the basis of phenotypic and genotypic data, it is proposed that strain MAE2 is a new species of Planococcus, Planococcus alkanoclasticus sp. nov., for which the type strain is P. alkanoclasticus MAE2 (NCIMB 13489 T ). Signi®cance and Impact of the Study: Planococcus species are abundant members of the bacterial community in a variety of marine environments, including some in sensitive Antarctic ecosystems. The occurrence of hydrocarbon-degrading Planococcus spp. is potentially of importance in controlling the impact of hydrocarbon contamination in sensitive marine environments.

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“…Further, KANDLER et al (20), and SCHLEIFER and KANDLER (21) reported that the primary structure of murein of the genus Planococcus was uniform, and that differed from those of the genus Micrococcus and Staphylococcus. Moreover, OEDING (22) found that the genus Planococcus had no antigenic relationship to the genera of Micrococcus and Staphylococcus.…”

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Taxonomic Significance of Phospholipid Composition in Aerobic Gram- Positive Cocci

Kōmura

Yamada

Komagata

1975

J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol.

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Phospholipid compositions were radiochemically studied on spherical bacteria belonging to the genera of Micrococcus, Planococcus, Staphylococcus, and Sporosarcina, and two unidentified motile cocci. The strains of the genera of Planococcus and Sporosarcina exhibited the presence of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), cardiolipin (CL), phosphatidylglycerol (PG), and an unidentified phospholipid b. The genus Micrococcus showed the presence of CL, PG, and unidentified phospholipids a and b, and the genus Staphylococcus, the presence of CL, PG, and the unidentified phospholipid b. The phospholipid composition indicated a close relation to other taxonomic characteristics in this group of bacteria, and was not affected qualitatively by cultural conditions. From these findings, the phospholipid composition is considered to be useful for differentiation of aerobic gram-positive cocci.Since motile cocci were first isolated from water in 1889 by ALI-CoHEN (1), the isolation of this kind of bacteria has been reported by other investigators (2, 3). In 1894, MIGULA (4) proposed the genus Planococcus for them on the basis of their motility. This genus was accepted by a few taxonomists, such as CHESTER (5), VUILLEMIN (6), and KRASSILNIKOV (7). The majority of other taxonomists have included these bacteria in the genus Micrococcus (8-11), because motile cocci could not be differentiated from the members of the genus Micrococcus except for their motility.Aerobic, gram-positive, non-motile cocci were divided into two groups on the basis of DNA base composition (GC-content in DNA) (12)(13)(14). Strains of the genus Staphylococcus showed a low GC-content in DNA of 30.8 % to 36.5 %, and those of Micrococcus from 69 % to 75 % (12), while motile cocci showed the GC-content in DNA of 40% to 50% (15-17). Therefore, motile cocci differed 97

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Serological Investigations of Planococcus Strains

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PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SEROLOGICALLY ACTIVE CELL WALL SUBSTANCES FROM PLANOCOCCUS STRAINS

PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SEROLOGICALLY ACTIVE CELL WALL SUBSTANCES FROM PLANOCOCCUS STRAINS

Isolation and characterization of a novel hydrocarbon-degrading, Gram-positive bacterium, isolated from intertidal beach sediment, and description of Planococcus alkanoclasticus sp. nov.

Taxonomic Significance of Phospholipid Composition in Aerobic Gram- Positive Cocci

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