Biology:Opitutus terrae
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Short description: Species of bacterium
| Opitutus terrae | |
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| Class: | Opitutae
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| Order: | Opitutales
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| Species: | O. terrae
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| Opitutus terrae Chin et al. 2001
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Opitutus terrae is an obligately anaerobic (cannot grow in the presence of oxygen) bacterium first isolated from rice paddy soil, hence its epithet. It is coccus-shaped and is motile by means of a flagellum. Its type strain is PB90-1T (= DSM 11246T).[1] Its genome has been sequenced.[2]
References
- ↑ Chin, K. J.; Liesack, W.; Janssen, P. H. (2001). "Opitutus terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., to accommodate novel strains of the division 'Verrucomicrobia' isolated from rice paddy soil". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 51 (6): 1965–1968. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-6-1965. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 11760935.
- ↑ van Passel, M. W. J.; Kant, R.; Palva, A.; Copeland, A.; Lucas, S.; Lapidus, A.; Glavina del Rio, T.; Pitluck, S. et al. (2011). "Genome Sequence of the Verrucomicrobium Opitutus terrae PB90-1, an Abundant Inhabitant of Rice Paddy Soil Ecosystems". Journal of Bacteriology 193 (9): 2367–2368. doi:10.1128/JB.00228-11. ISSN 0021-9193. PMID 21398538.
Further reading
- Chin, K.-J.; Janssen, P. H. (2002). "Propionate Formation by Opitutus terrae in Pure Culture and in Mixed Culture with a Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen and Implications for Carbon Fluxes in Anoxic Rice Paddy Soil". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68 (4): 2089–2092. doi:10.1128/AEM.68.4.2089-2092.2002. ISSN 0099-2240. PMID 11916740. Bibcode: 2002ApEnM..68.2089C.
- Nakajima, Masahiro; Nishimoto, Mamoru; Kitaoka, Motomitsu (2010). "Characterization of d-galactosyl-β1→4-l-rhamnose phosphorylase from Opitutus terrae". Enzyme and Microbial Technology 46 (3–4): 315–319. doi:10.1016/j.enzmictec.2009.12.007. ISSN 0141-0229.
- van Passel, M. W. J. (March 2011). "Genome Sequence of the Verrucomicrobium Opitutus terrae PB90-1, an Abundant Inhabitant of Rice Paddy Soil Ecosystems". Journal of Bacteriology 193 (9): 2367–2368. doi:10.1128/JB.00228-11. PMID 21398538.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q18357789 entry
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