Deinobacterium
Genus of bacteria
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Deinobacterium is a genus in the Deinococcota phylum (Bacteria). Not to be confused with Deinobacter, a disused name for Deinococcus.
| Deinobacterium | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Thermotogati |
| Phylum: | Deinococcota |
| Class: | Deinococci |
| Order: | Deinococcales |
| Family: | Deinococcaceae |
| Genus: | Deinobacterium Ekman et al. 2011 |
| Type species | |
| Deinobacterium chartae Ekman et al. 2011 | |
| Species[1][2] | |
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Etymology
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.
Species
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:[3]
- rod-shaped
- non-spore-forming
- non-motile, aerobic
- oxidase and catalase-positive
- radiation-resistant bacterium
- pale pink colonies on oligotrophic medium at 12 to 50 °C (optimum 37 to 45 °C) and at pH 6 to 10.3
- peptidoglycan type A3β with L-Orn–Gly–Gly
- quinone: MK-8
- CG 67%
- isolated from biofilm collected from a Finnish paper mill
