Sphingomonas pituitosa explained

Sphingomonas pituitosa is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and motile bacteria from the genus of Sphingomonas which has been isolated from water from a eutrophic artificial spring in Austria.^{[1] [2] [3]} Sphingomonas pituitosa produces exopolysaccharide.^[3]

Further reading

• Bahl. Michael Andreas. Schultheis. Ellen. Hempel. Dietmar Christian. Nörtemann. Bernd. Franco-Lara. Ezequiel. Recovery and purification of the exopolysaccharide PS-EDIV from Sphingomonas pituitosa DSM 13101. Carbohydrate Polymers. May 2010. 80. 4. 1037–1041. 10.1016/j.carbpol.2010.01.021.
• Denner. EB. Paukner. S. Kämpfer. P. Moore. ER. Abraham. WR. Busse. HJ. Wanner. G. Lubitz. W. Sphingomonas pituitosa sp. nov., an exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium that secretes an unusual type of sphingan.. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. May 2001. 51. Pt 3. 827–41. 10.1099/00207713-51-3-827. 11411704. free.
• Book: editors. Don J. Brenner, Noel R. Krieg, James T. Staley. Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology. 2005. Springer. New York. 0-387-29298-5. 2nd.
• Book: Pereira. Manuel Seabra. A portrait of state-of-the-art research at the Technical University of Lisbon. 2007. Springer. Dordrecht. 978-1-4020-5690-1. Online-Ausg..

External links

• Type strain of Sphingomonas pituitosa at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. [Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen]
2. https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/99597 UniProt
3. Denner. EB. Paukner. S. Kämpfer. P. Moore. ER. Abraham. WR. Busse. HJ. Wanner. G. Lubitz. W. Sphingomonas pituitosa sp. nov., an exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium that secretes an unusual type of sphingan.. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. May 2001. 51. Pt 3. 827–41. 10.1099/00207713-51-3-827. 11411704. free.