Comamonas testosteroni

Comamonas testosteroni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Genus: Comamonas
Species:
C. testosteroni
Binomial name
Comamonas testosteroni
(Marcus and Talalay 1956) Tamaoka et al. 1987
Synonyms
  • Pseudomonas testosteroni Marcus and Talalay 1956
  • Pseudomonas dacunhae Arima
  • Pseudomonas cruciviae Tamaoka, Ha, and Komagata, 1987

Comamonas testosteroni is a Gram-negative environmental bacterium capable of utilizing testosterone as a carbon source, and degrading other sterols such as ergosterol and estrogens.[1] Strain I2gfp has been used in bioaugmentation trials, in attempts to treat the industrial byproduct 3-chloroaniline.[2] It was first classified as a human pathogen in 1987 according to the National Library of Medicine. A number of strains of Comamonas, including C. testosteroni, have been shown to consume terephthalic acid, one of the components of PET plastic, as a sole carbon source.[3]

  1. ^ Liu, Na; Shi, Yue-e; Li, Jialu; Zhu, Meiling; Zhang, Tingdi (September 2021). "Identification and genome analysis of Comamonas testosteroni strain JLU460ET, a novel steroid-degrading bacterium". 3 Biotech. 11 (9): 404. doi:10.1007/s13205-021-02949-8. PMC 8353041. PMID 34458066.
  2. ^ Boon, Nico; Goris, Johan; De Vos, Paul; Verstraete, Willy; Top, Eva M. (July 2000). "Bioaugmentation of Activated Sludge by an Indigenous 3-Chloroaniline-Degrading Comamonas testosteroni Strain, I2 gfp". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66 (7): 2906–2913. Bibcode:2000ApEnM..66.2906B. doi:10.1128/AEM.66.7.2906-2913.2000. PMC 92090. PMID 10877785.
  3. ^ Schläfli, H R; Weiss, M A; Leisinger, T; Cook, A M (November 1994). "Terephthalate 1,2-dioxygenase system from Comamonas testosteroni T-2: purification and some properties of the oxygenase component". Journal of Bacteriology. 176 (21): 6644–6652. doi:10.1128/jb.176.21.6644-6652.1994. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 197021. PMID 7961417.