Psychrobacter proteolyticus explained

Psychrobacter proteolyticus is a species of bacteria first isolated from the Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. It excretes a cold-adapted metalloprotease.^[1] It is a strictly aerobic, strongly oxidase-positive, psychrotrophic, halotolerant, Gram-negative nonmotile coccobacillus; its type strain is CIP106830^T (=DSM13887).

Further reading

• Book: Bowman. John P.. The Prokaryotes. The Genus Psychrobacter. 2006. 920–930. 10.1007/0-387-30746-X_35. 978-0-387-25496-8.

External links

• LPSN
• Type strain of Psychrobacter proteolyticus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Denner EB, Mark B, Busse HJ, Turkiewicz M, Lubitz W . Psychrobacter proteolyticus sp. nov., a psychrotrophic, halotolerant bacterium isolated from the Antarctic krill Euphausia superba Dana, excreting a cold-adapted metalloprotease. . Syst Appl Microbiol . 2001 . 24 . 1 . 44–53 . 11403398 . 10.1078/0723-2020-00006 .