Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus

Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rhizobiales
Family: Xanthobacteraceae
Genus: Ancylobacter
Species: A. dichloromethanicus
Binomial name
Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus
Firsova et al. 2010[1]
Type strain
DM16, DSM 21507, VKM B-2484[2]
Synonyms

Ancylobacter dichloromethanicum[3]

Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus is an aerobic, Gram-negative bacteria from the family of Xanthobacteraceae which has been isolated from dichloromethane contaminated soil in Volgograd in Russia.[1][4][3][5] Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus can use dichloromethane, methanol, formate and formaldehyde for its metabolism.[5]

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 LPSN bacterio.net
  2. Straininfo of Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus
  3. 1 2 UniProt
  4. Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen
  5. 1 2 Firsova, J; Doronina, N; Lang, E; Spröer, C; Vuilleumier, S; Trotsenko, Y (July 2009). "Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus sp. nov.--a new aerobic facultatively methylotrophic bacterium utilizing dichloromethane.". Systematic and applied microbiology 32 (4): 227–32. PMID 19346095.
External identifiers for Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus
Encyclopedia of Life 11710416


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