Gemmatimonas aurantiaca explained

Gemmatimonas aurantiaca is a Gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism.^[1] It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped aerobe, with type strain T-27^T (=JCM 11422^T =DSM 14586^T). It replicates by budding.

Further reading

• Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 4. Springer, 2012.
• Takaichi. S.. Maoka. T.. Takasaki. K.. Hanada. S.. Carotenoids of Gemmatimonas aurantiaca (Gemmatimonadetes): identification of a novel carotenoid, deoxyoscillol 2-rhamnoside, and proposed biosynthetic pathway of oscillol 2,2'-dirhamnoside. Microbiology. 156. 3. 2009. 757–763. 1350-0872. 10.1099/mic.0.034249-0. 19959572. free.
• DeBruyn. J. M.. Nixon. L. T.. Fawaz. M. N.. Johnson. A. M.. Radosevich. M.. Global Biogeography and Quantitative Seasonal Dynamics of Gemmatimonadetes in Soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77. 17. 2011. 6295–6300. 0099-2240. 10.1128/AEM.05005-11. 21764958. 3165389.

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Gemmatimonas aurantiaca at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Zhang. H.. Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov.. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53. 4. 2003. 1155–1163. 1466-5026. 10.1099/ijs.0.02520-0. 12892144. free.