| NCIMB number | NCIMB 1377 |
| Deposit type | Bacteria |
| Type strain | No |
| GMO | No |
| Taxon name | Serratia marcescens subsp. marcescens |
| Depositor designation | Delft137 |
| Preservation method | Lyophilised |
| Price band | A |
| Media | 001 |
| Gas regime | aerobic |
| Growth factors (and/or information) | Lemco, 30C, 2d: good growth, butyrous consistency, easy suspension, variation in pigment intensity |
| ACDP category | 1 |
| Additional hazard information | Although presently classed as ACDP group 1, this organism is recognised as an opportunist pathogen, particularly of immunocompromised patients, and should be handled with care. |
| Colony Edge | Entire |
| Colony Surface | Smooth |
| Colony Shape | Circular |
| Colony Elevation | Low Convex |
| Colony Colour | Red |
| Colony Opacity | Opaque |
| Cellular Shape | Cocco-Bacillus |
| Cellular Size | 0.6 x 0.6-0.8 u |
| Cellular Motility | Yes |
| Gram stain | Gram Negative |
| Depositor Company | National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) |
| Depositor Address | 61 Colindale Avenue London U.K. NW9 5HT |
| Date of Accession | 01/01/1951 |
| History | A.J.Kluyver |
| Other collection IDs | ATCC274 CIP53.90 NCDO740 NCTC1377 |
| Yeast? | False |
| K12 | No |
| References | Monsour V. and Colmer A.R. (1952) J. Bact. 63 p597 Sneath P.H.A. (1960) Iowa St. J. Sci. 34 p243 Jones A.S. and Walker R.T. (1963) J. gen. Microbiol. 31 p187 Colwell R.R. and Mandel M. (1965) J. Bact. 89 pp454-461 Prinsloo H.E. (1966) J. gen. Microbiol. 45 p205 Jones A.S. and Walker r.J. (1968) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 128 pp579-582. The isolation of nucleic acids from gram positive bacteria. Deol B.S. et al (1973) Biochim. biophys. Acta 330 p192 Sourcebook of Experiments for the Teaching of Microbiology, Eds. S.B.Primrose and A.C. Wardlaw, Academic Press 1982. [Expt. 45] Buffering Capacity of Pigmented and Nonpigmented Strains of Serratia marcescens, Appl Environ Microbiol 60(6), 2152-2154, 1994 luxS mutants of Serratia defective in autoinducer-2-dependent quorum sensing show strain-dependent impacts on virulence and production of carbapenem and prodigiosin, Microbiology 150(6), 1901-1910, 2004 Species differentiation of seafood spoilage and pathogenic gram-negative bacteria by MALDI-TOF mass fingerprinting, J Proteome Res 9(6), 3169-3183, 2010 Suppression of damping-off of cucumber caused by Pythium ultimum with live cells and extracts of Serratia marcescens N4-5, Soil Biol Biochem 39(9), 2275-2288, 2007 Taxonomic evaluation of the genus Enterobacter based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA): Proposal to reclassify E. nimipressuralis and E. amnigenus into Lelliottia gen. nov. as Lelliottia nimipressuralis comb. nov. and Lelliottia amnigena comb. nov., respectively, E. gergoviae and E. pyrinus into Pluralibacter gen. nov. as Pluralibacter gergoviae comb. nov. and Pluralibacter pyrinus comb. nov., respectively, E. cowanii, E. radicincitans, E. oryzae and E. arachidis into Kosakonia gen. nov. as Kosakonia cowanii comb. nov., Kosakonia radicincitans comb. nov., Kosakonia oryzae comb. nov. and Kosakonia arachidis comb. nov., respectively, and E. turicensis, E. helveticus and E. pulveris into Cronobacter as Cronobacter zurichensis nom. nov., Cronobacter helveticus comb. nov. and Cronobacter pulveris comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genera Enterobacter and Cronobacter, Syst Appl Microbiol 36(5), 309-319, 2013 The Serratia gene cluster encoding biosynthesis of the red antibiotic, prodigiosin, shows species- and strain-dependent genome context variation, Microbiology 150(11), 3547-3560, 2004 |
| NCIMB number | NCIMB 1377 |
| Deposit type | Bacteria |
| Type strain | No |
| GMO | No |
| Taxon name | Serratia marcescens subsp. marcescens |
| Depositor designation | Delft137 |
| Preservation method | Lyophilised |
| Price band | A |
| Media | 001 |
| Gas regime | aerobic |
| Growth factors (and/or information) | Lemco, 30C, 2d: good growth, butyrous consistency, easy suspension, variation in pigment intensity |
| ACDP category | 1 |
| Additional hazard information | Although presently classed as ACDP group 1, this organism is recognised as an opportunist pathogen, particularly of immunocompromised patients, and should be handled with care. |
| Colony Edge | Entire |
| Colony Surface | Smooth |
| Colony Shape | Circular |
| Colony Elevation | Low Convex |
| Colony Colour | Red |
| Colony Opacity | Opaque |
| Cellular Shape | Cocco-Bacillus |
| Cellular Size | 0.6 x 0.6-0.8 u |
| Cellular Motility | Yes |
| Gram stain | Gram Negative |
| Depositor Company | National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) |
| Depositor Address | 61 Colindale Avenue London U.K. NW9 5HT |
| Date of Accession | 01/01/1951 |
| History | A.J.Kluyver |
| Other collection IDs | ATCC274 CIP53.90 NCDO740 NCTC1377 |
| Yeast? | False |
| K12 | No |
| References | Monsour V. and Colmer A.R. (1952) J. Bact. 63 p597 Sneath P.H.A. (1960) Iowa St. J. Sci. 34 p243 Jones A.S. and Walker R.T. (1963) J. gen. Microbiol. 31 p187 Colwell R.R. and Mandel M. (1965) J. Bact. 89 pp454-461 Prinsloo H.E. (1966) J. gen. Microbiol. 45 p205 Jones A.S. and Walker r.J. (1968) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 128 pp579-582. The isolation of nucleic acids from gram positive bacteria. Deol B.S. et al (1973) Biochim. biophys. Acta 330 p192 Sourcebook of Experiments for the Teaching of Microbiology, Eds. S.B.Primrose and A.C. Wardlaw, Academic Press 1982. [Expt. 45] Buffering Capacity of Pigmented and Nonpigmented Strains of Serratia marcescens, Appl Environ Microbiol 60(6), 2152-2154, 1994 luxS mutants of Serratia defective in autoinducer-2-dependent quorum sensing show strain-dependent impacts on virulence and production of carbapenem and prodigiosin, Microbiology 150(6), 1901-1910, 2004 Species differentiation of seafood spoilage and pathogenic gram-negative bacteria by MALDI-TOF mass fingerprinting, J Proteome Res 9(6), 3169-3183, 2010 Suppression of damping-off of cucumber caused by Pythium ultimum with live cells and extracts of Serratia marcescens N4-5, Soil Biol Biochem 39(9), 2275-2288, 2007 Taxonomic evaluation of the genus Enterobacter based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA): Proposal to reclassify E. nimipressuralis and E. amnigenus into Lelliottia gen. nov. as Lelliottia nimipressuralis comb. nov. and Lelliottia amnigena comb. nov., respectively, E. gergoviae and E. pyrinus into Pluralibacter gen. nov. as Pluralibacter gergoviae comb. nov. and Pluralibacter pyrinus comb. nov., respectively, E. cowanii, E. radicincitans, E. oryzae and E. arachidis into Kosakonia gen. nov. as Kosakonia cowanii comb. nov., Kosakonia radicincitans comb. nov., Kosakonia oryzae comb. nov. and Kosakonia arachidis comb. nov., respectively, and E. turicensis, E. helveticus and E. pulveris into Cronobacter as Cronobacter zurichensis nom. nov., Cronobacter helveticus comb. nov. and Cronobacter pulveris comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genera Enterobacter and Cronobacter, Syst Appl Microbiol 36(5), 309-319, 2013 The Serratia gene cluster encoding biosynthesis of the red antibiotic, prodigiosin, shows species- and strain-dependent genome context variation, Microbiology 150(11), 3547-3560, 2004 |