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Genus: | Deinobacterium Ekman et al. 2011 |
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Deinobacterium is a genus in the Deinococcota phylum (Bacteria). Not to be confused with Deinobacter, a disused name for Deinococcus .
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.
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: [1]
Deinococcus is in the monotypic family Deinococcaceae, and one genus of three in the order Deinococcales of the bacterial phylum Deinococcota highly resistant to environmental hazards. These bacteria have thick cell walls that give them Gram-positive stains, but they include a second membrane and so are closer in structure to Gram-negative bacteria. Deinococcus survive when their DNA is exposed to high doses of gamma and UV radiation. Whereas other bacteria change their structure in the presence of radiation, such as by forming endospores, Deinococcus tolerate it without changing their cellular form and do not retreat into a hardened structure. They are also characterized by the presence of the carotenoid pigment deinoxanthin that give them their pink color. They are usually isolated according to these two criteria. In August 2020, scientists reported that bacteria from Earth, particularly Deinococcus bacteria, were found to survive for three years in outer space, based on studies conducted on the International Space Station. These findings support the notion of panspermia, the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed in various ways, including space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids or contaminated spacecraft.
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