Comamonas terrigena

Comamonas terrigena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Genus: Comamonas
Species: C. terrigena
Binomial name
Comamonas terrigena
De Vos et al. 1985, sp. nov., nom. rev.[1]
Type strain
NCTC 1937, CCUG 15327, CCUG 2185, CIP 63.44, LMG 1253, LMG 5929, M. Veron 31, NCIB 8193, NRRL B-1055, NRRL B-781, R. Hugh 247[2]

Comamonas terrigena is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Comamonas and the family of Comamonadaceae, which was isolated from contaminated soil in Slovakia.[3] C. terrigena has the ability to degrade phenols.[4]

References

  1. http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/c/comamonas.html
  2. http://www.straininfo.net/strains/8180/browser
  3. Zámocký, M; Godocíková, J; Koller, F; Polek, B (2001). "Potential application of catalase-peroxidase from Comamonas terrigena N3H in the biodegradation of phenolic compounds". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 79 (2): 109–17. doi:10.1023/A:1010294130534. PMID 11519996.
  4. Zámocký, M; Godocíková, J; Koller, F; Polek, B (2001). "Potential application of catalase-peroxidase from Comamonas terrigena N3H in the biodegradation of phenolic compounds". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 79 (2): 109–17. doi:10.1023/A:1010294130534. PMID 11519996.


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