Brevibacillus borstelensis

Brevibacillus borstelensis
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacillota
Class:
Bacilli
Order:
Bacillales
Family:
Paenibacillaceae
Genus:
Brevibacillus
Species:
B. borstelensis
Binomial name
Brevibacillus borstelensis
(Shida et al. 1995[1])
Shida et al. 1996[2]

Brevibacillus borstelensis is a Gram-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacterium of the genus Brevibacillus. The genome of several B. borstelensis strains have been sequenced.[3]

Brevibacillus borstelensis strain 707 is a thermophilic strain capable of degrading and using polyethylene as its sole source of carbon.[4] This strain was shown to reduce the amount of polyethylene by 30% (30 days at 50°C) and demonstrates that nondegradable plastics like polyethylene can be degraded under appropriate conditions.

  1. ^ Shida, O.; Takagi, H.; Kadowaki, K.; Udaka, S.; Nakamura, L.; Komagata, K. (January 1995). "Proposal of Bacillus reuszeri sp. nov., Bacillus formosus sp. nov., nom. rev., and Bacillus borstelensis sp. nov., nom. rev". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 43 (1): 93–100. doi:10.1099/00207713-45-1-93.
  2. ^ Shida, O.; Takagi, H.; Kadowaki, K.; Komagata, K. (October 1996). "Proposal for two new genera, Brevibacillus gen. nov. and Aneurinibacillus gen. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (4): 939–946. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-4-939. PMID 8863420.
  3. ^ "Brevibacillus borstelensis". NCBI genome. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  4. ^ Hadad, D.; Geresh, S.; Sivan, A. (May 2005). "Biodegradation of polyethylene by the thermophilic bacterium Brevibacillus borstelensis". Journal of Applied Microbiology. 98 (5): 1093–1100. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2005.02553.x. PMID 15836478.