Rubrobacter xylanophilus explained

Rubrobacter xylanophilus is a thermophilic species of bacteria. It is slightly halotolerant, short rod- and coccus-shaped and gram-positive, with type strain PRD-1^T. It is the only known true radiation resistant thermophile. It can degrade xylan and hemicellulose.^[1] The first strain of the genus Rubrobacter was isolated from gamma-irradiated hot spring water samples by Yoshinaka. This organism was found to be extremely gamma-radiation resistant, with a higher shoulder dose than the canonical radiation resistant species of the genus Deinococcus. The organism stained Gram-positive and was slightly thermophilic with an optimum growth temperature of about 60 °C.^[2]

References

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Further reading

• Empadinhas. Nuno. Mendes. Vítor. Simões. Catarina. Santos. Maria S.. Mingote. Ana. Lamosa. Pedro. Santos. Helena. Costa. Milton S. da. Organic solutes in Rubrobacter xylanophilus: the first example of di-myo-inositol-phosphate in a thermophile. Extremophiles. 11. 5. 2007. 667–673. 1431-0651. 10.1007/s00792-007-0084-z. 17510735. 10316/7827. 19493249. free.
• Empadinhas. Nuno. Pereira. Pedro José Barbosa. Albuquerque. Luciana. Costa. Joana. Sá-Moura. Bebiana. Marques. Alexandra T.. Macedo-Ribeiro. Sandra. da Costa. Milton S.. Functional and structural characterization of a novel mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase from Rubrobacter xylanophilus reveals its dual substrate specificity. Molecular Microbiology. 79. 1. 2011. 76–93. 0950-382X. 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07432.x. 21166895. free.
• Nobre. A.. Alarico. S.. Fernandes. C.. Empadinhas. N.. da Costa. M. S.. A Unique Combination of Genetic Systems for the Synthesis of Trehalose in Rubrobacter xylanophilus: Properties of a Rare Actinobacterial TreT. Journal of Bacteriology. 190. 24. 2008. 7939–7946. 0021-9193. 10.1128/JB.01055-08. 18835983. 2593226.
• Book: A Trincone. Marine Enzymes for Biocatalysis: Sources, Biocatalytic Characteristics and Bioprocesses of Marine Enzymes. 30 September 2013. Elsevier Science. 978-1-908818-35-5. 479–.
• Ferreira. A. C.. Nobre. M. F.. Moore. E.. Rainey. F. A.. Battista. J. R.. da Costa. M.S.. Characterization and radiation resistance of new isolates of Rubrobacter radiotolerans and Rubrobacter xylanophilus. Extremophiles. 3. 4. 1999. 235–238. 1431-0651. 10.1007/s007920050121. 10591012. 539861.

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Rubrobacter xylanophilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Carreto. L.. Moore. E.. Nobre. M. F.. Wait. R.. Riley. P. W.. Sharp. R. J.. Da Costa. M. S.. Rubrobacter xylanophilus sp. nov., a New Thermophilic Species Isolated from a Thermally Polluted Effluent. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46. 2. 1996. 460–465. 0020-7713. 10.1099/00207713-46-2-460. free.
2. Home - Rubrobacter xylanophilus DSM 9941. (n.d.). Retrieved May 02, 2017, from http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/rubxy/rubxy.home.html
3. Home - Rubrobacter xylanophilus DSM 9941. (n.d.). Retrieved May 02, 2017, from http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/rubxy/rubxy.home.html