Beijerinckiaceae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Beijerinckiaceae
Garrity et al. 2006
Genera[1][2]

The Beijerinckiaceae are a family of Hyphomicrobiales named after the Dutch microbiologist Martinus Willem Beijerinck. Beijerinckia is a genus of free-living aerobic nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Acidotolerant Beijerinckiaceae has been shown to be the main bacterial methanol sink in a deciduous forest soil and highlights their importance for the conversion of methanol in forest soils.[3]

Together with Methylocystaceae they are alphaproteobacterial methanotrophs.[4]

References

  1. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Beijerinckiaceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved May 16, 2021.
  2. "Beijerinckiaceae". www.uniprot.org.
  3. Morawe M, Hoeke H, Wissenbach DK, Lentendu G, Wubet T, Kröber E, Kolb S (2017-07-24). "Acidotolerant Bacteria and Fungi as a Sink of Methanol-Derived Carbon in a Deciduous Forest Soil". Frontiers in Microbiology. 8: 1361. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.01361. PMC 5523551. PMID 28790984.
  4. Tamas I, Smirnova AV, He Z, Dunfield PF (February 2014). "The (d)evolution of methanotrophy in the Beijerinckiaceae--a comparative genomics analysis". The ISME Journal. 8 (2): 369–82. Bibcode:2014ISMEJ...8..369T. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.145. PMC 3906808. PMID 23985741.


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