Deinobacterium

Deinobacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Thermotogati
Phylum:	Deinococcota
Class:	Deinococci
Order:	Deinococcales
Family:	Deinococcaceae
Genus:	Deinobacterium Ekman et al. 2011
Type species
Deinobacterium chartae Ekman et al. 2011
Species [1] [2]
D. chartae

Deinobacterium is a genus in the Deinococcota phylum (Bacteria). Not to be confused with Deinobacter, a disused name for Deinococcus .

Etymology

The name Deinobacterium derives from:
Greek adjective deinos (δεινός), dreadful, strange; Neo-Latin neuter gender noun bacterium, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Deinobacterium, strange bacterium.

Species

The genus contains a single species, namely D. chartae ( Ekman et al. 2011, (Type species of the genus).; Latin genitive case noun chartae, of/from paper.) This bacterium is: ^[3]

• rod-shaped
• non-spore-forming
• non-motile, aerobic
• oxidase and catalase-positive
• radiation-resistant bacterium
• pale pink colonies on oligotrophic medium at 12 to 50 °C (optimum 37 to 45 °C) and at pH 6 to 10.3
• peptidoglycan type A3β with L-Orn–Gly–Gly
• quinone: MK-8
• CG 67%
• isolated from biofilm collected from a Finnish paper mill

See also

• List of Bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders

References

1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Deinobacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
2. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Deinobacterium". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
3. Ekman, J. V.; Raulio, M. .; Busse, H. -J.; Fewer, D. P.; Salkinoja-Salonen, M. . (2010). "Deinobacterium chartae gen. Nov., sp. Nov., an extremely radiation-resistant, biofilm-forming bacterium isolated from a Finnish paper mill". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (3): 540–548. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.017970-0 . PMID   20382794.