Rhodomicrobium vannielii

Rhodomicrobium vannielii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alpha Proteobacteria
Order: Rhizobiales
Family: Hyphomicrobiaceae
Genus: Rhodomicrobium
Species: R. vannielii
Binomial name
Rhodomicrobium vannielii
Duchow and Douglas 1949[1]
Type strain
ATCC 17100, ATH 3.1.1, BCRC 16411, CCRC 16411, DSM 162 , E. Y. 33, HMSATH3.1.1, LMG 4299, NCIB 10020, NCIMB 10020, van Niel ATH.3.1.1.[2]

Rhodomicrobium vannielii is a non-sulphur, photoheterotroph bacterium.[1][3][4][5] Rhodomicrobium vannielii produces acyclic and atiphatic cyclic carotenoids like anhydrorhodovibrin, rhodovibrin, spirilloxanthin and rhodopin.[6]

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 LPSN bacterio.net
  2. Straininfo of Rhodomicrobium vannielii
  3. UniProt
  4. Neunlist, Serge; Holst, Otto; Rohmer, Michel (2008). "Prokaryotic triterpenoids". European Journal of Biochemistry 147 (3): 561. doi:10.1111/j.0014-2956.1985.00561.x. PMID 3979387.
  5. John Howard Parish (1979). Developmental Biology of Prokaryotes. University of California Press. ISBN 0520040163.
  6. Leutwiler, Leslie Sise; Chapman, D.J. (1978). "Biosynthesis of carotenoids in Rhodomicrobium vannielii". FEBS Letters 89 (2): 248. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(78)80228-2. PMID 658413.
External identifiers for Rhodomicrobium vannielii
Encyclopedia of Life 974998


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