Sphingomonas pituitosa

Sphingomonas pituitosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Sphingomonadales
Family: Sphingomonadaceae
Genus: Sphingomonas
Species:
S. pituitosa
Binomial name
Sphingomonas pituitosa
Denner et al. 2001[1]
Type strain[2]
CIP 106154, DSM 13101, EDIV, IAM 15276, JCM 21727, NBRC 102491, NCIMB 13868

Sphingomonas pituitosa is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and motile bacteria from the genus Sphingomonas which has been isolated from water from a eutrophic artificial spring in Austria.[1][3][4][5] Sphingomonas pituitosa produces exopolysaccharide.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. Straininfo of Sphingomonas pituitosa
  3. Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen
  4. UniProt
  5. 1 2 Denner, EB; Paukner, S; Kämpfer, P; Moore, ER; Abraham, WR; Busse, HJ; Wanner, G; Lubitz, W (May 2001). "Sphingomonas pituitosa sp. nov., an exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium that secretes an unusual type of sphingan". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 3): 827–41. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-3-827. PMID 11411704.

Further reading

  • Bahl, Michael Andreas; Schultheis, Ellen; Hempel, Dietmar Christian; Nörtemann, Bernd; Franco-Lara, Ezequiel (May 2010). "Recovery and purification of the exopolysaccharide PS-EDIV from Sphingomonas pituitosa DSM 13101". Carbohydrate Polymers. 80 (4): 1037–1041. doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2010.01.021.