Patent ID: 6436680
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: A61K,C12N,C12R,Y10S

Abstract:
An isolated bacterial strain of the genus Vibrio that belongs to the species called Vibrio diabolicus, and possesses the characteristics defined below:straight Gram-negative bacillus, about 0.8 &mgr;m wide and 2.2 &mgr;m long; motile with the aid of a polar flagellum in liquid medium and of peritrichous flagella in solid medium; non-encapsulated, non-pigmented and non-luminescent; catalase+, cytochrome oxidase+, chitinase+, faculative anaerobe reducing nitrates to nitrites, and sensitive to 2, 4-diamino-6, 7-diisopropylpteridine; capable of using, as sole carbon source, any one of the following substrates: glycerol, ribose, galactose, glucose, fructose, mannose, mannitol, N-acetylglucosamine, maltose, sucrose, trehalose, starch, glycogen, gluconate, caprate, citrate and malate; DNA having a G+C content of 49.6%, a percentage homology of 27% with the DNA of Vibrio mytili, a percentage homology of 15% with the DNA of Vibrio nereis, and a percentage homology of 5% with the DNA of Vibrio tubiashii.