| Sorangium cellulosum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Myxococcota |
| Class: | Myxococcia |
| Order: | Myxococcales |
| Family: | Polyangiaceae |
| Genus: | Sorangium |
| Species: | S. cellulosum
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| Binomial name | |
| Sorangium cellulosum (ex Jahn 1924) Reichenbach 2007
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Sorangium cellulosum is a soil-dwelling Gram-negative bacterium of the group myxobacteria.[1] It is motile and shows gliding motility. Under stressful conditions this motility, as in other myxobacteria, the cells congregate to form fruiting bodies and differentiate into myxospores. These congregating cells make isolation of pure culture and colony counts on agar medium difficult as the bacterium spread and colonies merge.[2] It has an unusually-large genome of 13,033,779 base pairs, making it the largest bacterial genome sequenced to date by roughly 4 Mb.[3][4]
- ^ Julien B, Fehd R (2003). "Development of a mariner-based transposon for use in Sorangium cellulosum". Appl Environ Microbiol. 69 (10): 6299–301. Bibcode:2003ApEnM..69.6299J. doi:10.1128/AEM.69.10.6299-6301.2003. PMC 201241. PMID 14532095.
- ^ Reichenbach H.; Hofle, G. (1999). "Myxobacteria as producer of secondary metabolites". In Grabley, S.; Thiericke, R. (eds.). Drug Discovery from Nature. pp. 149–179. ISBN 978-3-540-66947-0.
- ^ Schneiker S, et al. (2007). "Complete genome sequence of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum". Nature Biotechnology. 25 (11): 1281–1289. doi:10.1038/nbt1354. PMID 17965706.
- ^ "Largest known bacterial genome size - Bacteria Sorangium cellulosum - BNID 104469". bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-02.