Biology:Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis

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Short description: Species of bacterium

Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Pseudomonadales
Family: Pseudomonadaceae
Genus: Pseudomonas
Species:
P. frederiksbergensis
Binomial name
Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis
Andersen, et al. 2000

Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis is a Gram-negative, phenanthrene-degrading bacterium from a coal gasification site in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark .[1] It is able to catalyse the asymmetric oxidation of sulfides to give exclusively the R enantiomer.[2] The type strain is DSM 13022.

References

  1. Andersen et al. (Nov 2000). "Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis sp. nov., isolated from soil at a coal gasification site". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50 (6): 1957–64. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-6-1957. PMID 11155968. 
  2. Adam et al. (Apr 2005). "Opposite enantioselectivities of two phenotypically and genotypically similar strains of Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis in bacterial whole-cell sulfoxidation". Appl Environ Microbiol 71 (4): 2199–202. doi:10.1128/AEM.71.4.2199-2202.2005. PMID 15812060. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7255043 entry