Pedobacter

Pedobacter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Sphingobacteria
Order: Sphingobacteriales
Family: Sphingobacteriaceae
Genus: Pedobacter

Pedobacter is a genus of Gram-negative soil-associated bacteria. Species including Pedobacter heparinus, formerly known as Flavobacterium heparinum, produce heparinase and are capable of using heparin as their sole carbon and nitrogen source.[1]

In molecular biology, Pedobacter has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents and ultra-pure water systems, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.[2]

Species

References

  1. Shaya, D (2006). "Crystal structure of heparinase II from Pedobacter heparinus and its complex with a disaccharide product.". J. Biol. Chem 281: 15525–35. doi:10.1074/jbc.m512055200. PMID 16565082.
  2. Salter, S; Cox, M; Turek, E; Calus, S; Cookson, W; Moffatt, M; Turner, P; Parkhill, J; Loman, N; Walker, A (2014). "Reagent contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses". bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/007187.

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