Cupriavidus
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Colonies of Cupriavidus necator on a gel medium |
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Cupriavidus is a bacteria - genus in the family burkholderiaceae .
It includes short, rod-shaped, Gram-negative , chemoorganoheterotrophic bacteria that move with 2 to 10 perithric flagella . They have catalase , oxidase and nitrate reductase . They occur in soil and can dissolve other bacteria there. It is characterized by an extensive insensitivity to copper ions.
The genus includes the former genus Wautersia and former representatives of the genera Alcaligenes and Ralstonia . The type species Cupriavidus necator , which is used, among other things, for the production of biopolymer, is of particular interest .
species
The genus contains the following species (as of January 2019):
- Cupriavidus alkaliphilus Estrada-de Los Santos et al. 2012
- Cupriavidus basilensis (Steinle et al. 1999) Vandamme & Coenye 2004
- Cupriavidus campinensis (Goris et al. 2001) Vandamme & Coenye 2004
- Cupriavidus gilardii (Coenye et al. 1999) Vandamme & Coenye 2004
- Cupriavidus laharis Sato et al. 2006
- Cupriavidus metallidurans (Goris et al. 2001) Vandamme & Coenye 2004
- Cupriavidus nantongensis Sun et al. 2016
- Cupriavidus necator Makkar & Casida 1987
- Cupriavidus numazuensis (Kageyama et al. 2005) Martínez-Aguilar 2013
- Cupriavidus oxalaticus (Sahin et al. 2000) Vandamme & Coenye 2004
- Cupriavidus pampae Cuadrado et al. 2010
- Cupriavidus pauculus (Vandamme et al. 1999) Vandamme & Coenye 2004
- Cupriavidus pinatubonensis Sato et al. 2006
- Cupriavidus plantarum Estrada-de Los Santos et al. 2015
- Cupriavidus respiraculi (Coenye et al. 2003) Vandamme & Coenye 2004
- Cupriavidus taiwanensis (Chen et al. 2001) Vandamme & Coenye 2004
- Cupriavidus yeoncheonensis Singh et al. 2015
literature
- Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer and Erko Stackebrandt (Eds.): The Prokaryotes . Vol. 5: Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta Subclasses . Springer-Verlag, New York a. a. O. 2006, ISBN 978-0-387-25495-1 (print) 978-0-387-30745-9 (online), doi : 10.1007 / 0-387-30745-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ JP Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Cupriavidus (as of January 24, 2019)