Biology:Coprococcus
Coprococcus is a genus of anaerobic bacteria in the family Lachnospiraceae. The type species is Coprococcus eutactus.[1] The genus was originally described for Gram-positive, nonmotile cocci isolated from human feces.[2]
Some members of the genus produce butyrate during carbohydrate fermentation and form part of the human gut microbiota.[3] Reduced relative abundance of sequences assigned to Coprococcus has been reported in a study of patients with colorectal cancer.[4]
Taxonomy
The name Coprococcus is derived from the Ancient Greek kopros, meaning excrement or feces, and kokkos, meaning berry.[1]
LPSN recognizes seven species with correct names in the genus: C. aceti, C. ammoniilyticus, C. eutactus, C. hominis, C. intestinalis, C. intestinihominis, and C. phoceensis.[1]
Genome-based analyses led to the transfer of several species formerly assigned to Coprococcus. Coprococcus comes was transferred to Allocoprococcus as A. comes; C. catus and C. immobilis were transferred to Pseudocoprococcus; and C. mobilis was transferred to Faecalimonas.[5]
Phylogeny
Nomenclature follows the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN),[1] with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database used as an additional reference.[6]
The trees below compare a 16S rRNA gene phylogeny from LTP_10_2024 with a genome-based phylogeny from GTDB release R11-RS232.
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See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Coprococcus in LPSN; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (29 October 2025). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research 53: D1–D12. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
- ↑ Holdeman, L. V.; Moore, W. E. C. (1974). "New genus, Coprococcus, twelve new species, and emended descriptions of four previously described species of bacteria from human feces". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 24 (2): 260–277. doi:10.1099/00207713-24-2-260.
- ↑ Louis, Petra; Flint, Harry J. (2017). "Formation of propionate and butyrate by the human colonic microbiota". Environmental Microbiology 19 (1): 29–41. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13589. PMID 27235414.
- ↑ Xia, Li C.; Liu, Gang; Gao, Yingxin; Li, Xiaoxin; Pan, Hongfei; Ai, Dongmei (2019). "Identifying gut microbiota associated with colorectal cancer using a zero-inflated lognormal model". Frontiers in Microbiology 10. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00826. PMID 31068913.
- ↑ Yamamoto, Eri; Hisatomi, Atsushi; Miwa, Kana; Sakurai, Naomi; Koizumi, Akiko; Ohkuma, Moriya; Tsuchihashi, Hanae; Sakamoto, Mitsuo (2026). "Proposal of two novel species, Allocoprococcus similis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Faecalimonas hominis sp. nov., isolated from human faeces and genome-based reorganization of the genus Coprococcus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 76 (1). doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.007011. PMID 41498776.
- ↑ Schoch CL. "Coprococcus". National Center for Biotechnology Information taxonomy database. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=33042&lvl=3.
- ↑ "The LTP and LTPlus". https://bioinfo.uib.es/ltp/.
- ↑ "LTP_all tree in Newick format". https://imedea.uib-csic.es/mmg/ltp/wp-content/uploads/ltp/LTP_all_10_2024.ntree.
- ↑ "LTP_10_2024 release notes". https://imedea.uib-csic.es/mmg/ltp/wp-content/uploads/ltp/LTP_10_2024_release_notes.pdf.
- ↑ "GTDB release R11-RS232". https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/stats/r232.
- ↑ "bac120_r232.sp_labels.tree". https://data.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/releases/release232/232.0/auxillary_files/bac120_r232.sp_labels.tree.
Wikidata ☰ Q3693215 entry
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