Neisseriaceae
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
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| Neisseriaceae | ||||||||||
| Prévot 1933 |
The Neisseriaceae form the only family of the order Neisseriales within the beta-proteobacteria . They include various species pathogenic to humans. They are named after Albert Neisser (* 1855; † 1916). A well-known example is Neisseria meningitidis , commonly known as meningococci. This bacterium can cause meningitis and blood poisoning when infected .
features
The representatives are coccoid , they occur individually, in pairs or in clusters. Rod-shaped cells are also formed. They have pili and need free oxygen for metabolism ( aerobic ). The cells do not form spores. In cultures they show optimal growth at temperatures between 32 and 36 ° C.
Many species are parasites of warm-blooded animals. Important human pathogens are found in the genus Neisseria .
Systematics
The systematics of this family was subject to some changes due to molecular biological investigations of the gene structures (comparisons of the DNA, 16S rRNA analyzes ). So were u. a. the genera Moraxella , Psychrobacter and Acinetobacter previously assigned to this family were assigned to the Moraxellaceae family created especially for this purpose . The species Branhamella catarrhalis is now carried under the species name Moraxella catarrhalis . Some genera previously listed here, such as Aquaspirillum , Chitinibacter , Chromobacterium , Deefgea , Formivibrio and Iodobacter, are now assigned to the Chromobacteriaceae family , which was also newly created for this purpose and which is now also part of the Neisseriales order.
Some genera:
- Alysiella Langeron 1923
- Amantichitinum Moß et al. 2013
- Bergeriella Xie and Yokota 2005
- Conchiformibius Xie and Yokota 2005
- Eikenella Jackson and Goodman 1972
- Kingella Henriksen and Bovre 1976
- Neisseria Trevisan 1885
- Simonsiella Schmid 1922
- Snodgrassella Kwong and Moran 2013
- Uruburuella Vela et al. 2005
- Vitreoscilla Pringsheim 1949
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b George M. Garrity (Ed.): Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology . 2nd edition, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria. Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteabacteria . Springer, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6 .
- ↑ a b R. Rossau et al: Taxonomy of Moraxellaceae fam. nov., a New Bacterial Family To Accommodate the Genera Moraxella, Acinetobacter, and Psychrobacter and Related Organisms In: Internation Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology , Volume 41, 1991, pp. 310-319.
- ↑ Adeolu, M. & Gupta, RS: Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. In: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2013) 104: 1
- ↑ JP Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature: Family Neisseriaceae ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of April 4, 2019
literature
- George M. Garrity (Ed.): Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology . 2nd edition, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria. Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteabacteria . Springer, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6 .