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  • Title: Prosthecobacter fusiformis nov. gen. et sp., the fusiform caulobacter.
    Author: Staley JT, Bont JA, Jonge K.
    Journal: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek; 1976; 42(3):333-42. PubMed ID: 1086646.
    Abstract:
    Four strains of heterotrophic, fusiform caulobacters have been isolated from freshwater sources. A single prostheca extends from one pole of mature cells, and cells attach to various substrata by means of a holdfast located at the distal tip of the appendage. Thus, superficially these bacteria bear a strong resemblance to bacteria in the genus Caulobacter. However, unlike Caulobacter these bacteria do not exhibit a dimorphic life cycle of motile, non-stalked daughter cells and immotile, stalked mother cells. Instead both mother and daughter cells are immotile, and at the time of cell separation the daughter cells are essentially identical mirror-image replicas of the mother cell. In addition, the prosthecae of these fusiform caulobacters do not have crossbands, they are somewhat wider than the stalks of Caulobacter and the pseudostalks of Asticcacaulis, and they terminate in a bulbous tip. The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) base composition ranges from 54.6-60.1, well below the 62-67 range for the genus Caulobacter. Based upon these and other differences a new genus and species, Prosthecobacter fusiformis, is proposed for the fusiform caulobacters.
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