Rhodomicrobium vannielii

Rhodomicrobium vannielii
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Hyphomicrobiales
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 Gram-negative, purple non-sulfur, motile, thermophilic photoheterotroph bacterium.[1][3][4][5] Phototrophic bacteria are ubiquitous and have been reportedly found in many marine and terrestrial ecosystems.[6] Additionally, they can use light as an energy source and carbon dioxide as a carbon source. Considering this, R. vannielii is thought to have potential application in anaerobic treatment and bioremediation under high temperature conditions as the bacteria was isolated from water samples from a hot spring in Gadek, Malacca, Malaysia using glutamate-malate medium (GMM) and Pfennig's M2 medium.[6] R. vannielii produces acyclic and aliphatic cyclic carotenoids like anhydrorhodovibrin, rhodovibrin, spirilloxanthin and rhodopin.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Genus Rhodomicrobium". LPSN. List of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (LPSN).
  2. ^ "Rhodomicrobium vannielii". Straininfo.
  3. ^ "Rhodomicrobium vannielii". UniProt Taxonomy.
  4. ^ Neunlist S, Holst O, Rohmer M (March 1985). "Prokaryotic triterpenoids. The hopanoids of the purple non-sulphur bacterium Rhodomicrobium vannielii: an aminotriol and its aminoacyl derivatives, N-tryptophanyl and N-ornithinyl aminotriol". European Journal of Biochemistry. 147 (3): 561–8. doi:10.1111/j.0014-2956.1985.00561.x. PMID 3979387.
  5. ^ Parish JH (1979). Developmental Biology of Prokaryotes. University of California Press. ISBN 0520040163.
  6. ^ a b Ainon H, Tan CJ, Vikineswary S (June 2006). "Biological Characterization of Rhodomicrobium vannielii Isolated from a Hot Spring at Gadek, Malacca, Malaysia". Malaysian Journal of Microbiology. doi:10.21161/mjm.210603. ISSN 2231-7538.
  7. ^ Leutwiler LS, Chapman DJ (May 1978). "Biosynthesis of carotenoids in Rhodomicrobium vannielii". FEBS Letters. 89 (2): 248–52. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(78)80228-2. PMID 658413.