Deinobacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Deinococcota
Class:
Deinococci
Order:
Deinococcales
Family:
Deinococcaceae
Genus:
Deinobacterium

Ekman et al. 2011
Type species
Deinobacterium chartae
Ekman et al. 2011
Species
  • D. chartae

Deinobacterium is a genus in the Deinococcota phylum (Bacteria). Not to be confused with Deinobacter, a disused name for Deinococcus.

Etymology

The name Deinobacterium derives from:
Greek adjective deinos (δεινός), dreadful, strange; Neo-Latin neuter gender noun bacterium, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Deinobacterium, strange bacterium.

Species

The genus contains a single species, namely D. chartae ( Ekman et al. 2011, (Type species of the genus).; Latin genitive case noun chartae, of/from paper.) This bacterium is:[1]

  • rod-shaped
  • non-spore-forming
  • non-motile, aerobic
  • oxidase and catalase-positive
  • radiation-resistant bacterium
  • pale pink colonies on oligotrophic medium at 12 to 50 °C (optimum 37 to 45 °C) and at pH 6 to 10.3
  • peptidoglycan type A3β with L-Orn–Gly–Gly
  • quinone: MK-8
  • CG 67%
  • isolated from biofilm collected from a Finnish paper mill

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ekman, J. V.; Raulio, M. .; Busse, H. -J.; Fewer, D. P.; Salkinoja-Salonen, M. . (2010). "Deinobacterium chartae gen. Nov., sp. Nov., an extremely radiation-resistant, biofilm-forming bacterium isolated from a Finnish paper mill". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (3): 540–548. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.017970-0. PMID 20382794.
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