Deinobacterium

Deinobacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Deinococcus-Thermus
Class:	Deinococci
Order:	Deinococcales
Family:	Deinococcaceae
Genus:	Deinobacterium
Type species
D. chartae

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

Etymology

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

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology

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.  edit