Pelobacter acidigallici

Pelobacter acidigallici
Pelobacter acidigallici
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Delta Proteobacteria
Order: Desulfuromonadales
Family: Pelobacteraceae
Genus: Pelobacter
Species: P. acidigallici
Binomial name
Pelobacter acidigallici
Schink and Pfennig, 1983

Pelobacter acidigallici is the type species in the bacteria genus Pelobacter.

P. acidigallici is able to degrade trihydroxybenzenes[1]. The enzyme pyrogallol hydroxytransferase uses 1,2,3,5-tetrahydroxybenzene and 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene (pyrogallol), whereas its two products are 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene (phloroglucinol) and 1,2,3,5-tetrahydroxybenzene. This enzyme can be found in P. acidigallici[2].

References

  1. ^ Fermentation of trihydroxybenzenes by Pelobacter acidigallici gen. nov. sp. nov., a new strictly anaerobic, non-sporeforming bacterium. Bernhard Schink and Norbert Pfennig, Archives of Microbiology, Volume 133, Number 3 / december 1982, pp. 195-201, doi:10.1007/BF00415000
  2. ^ Pyrogallol hydroxytransferase on www.uniprot.org