Gemmatimonas aurantiaca

Gemmatimonas aurantiaca is a Gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism.[1] It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped aerobe, with type strain T-27^T (=JCM 11422^T =DSM 14586^T). It replicates by budding.

Gemmatimonas aurantiaca
Gemmatimonas aurantiaca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Gemmatimonadetes
Order:	Gemmatimonales
Family:	Gemmatimonaceae
Genus:	Gemmatimonas
Species:	G. aurantiaca
Binomial name
Gemmatimonas aurantiaca Zhang et al. 2003

References

1. Zhang, H. (2003). "Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (4): 1155–1163. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02520-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 12892144.

Further reading

• Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey’s manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 4. Springer, 2012.
• Takaichi, S.; Maoka, T.; Takasaki, K.; Hanada, S. (2009). "Carotenoids of Gemmatimonas aurantiaca (Gemmatimonadetes): identification of a novel carotenoid, deoxyoscillol 2-rhamnoside, and proposed biosynthetic pathway of oscillol 2,2'-dirhamnoside". Microbiology. 156 (3): 757–763. doi:10.1099/mic.0.034249-0. ISSN 1350-0872. PMID 19959572.
• DeBruyn, J. M.; Nixon, L. T.; Fawaz, M. N.; Johnson, A. M.; Radosevich, M. (2011). "Global Biogeography and Quantitative Seasonal Dynamics of Gemmatimonadetes in Soil". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77 (17): 6295–6300. doi:10.1128/AEM.05005-11. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 3165389. PMID 21764958.

External links

• "Gemmatimonas aurantiaca" at the Encyclopedia of Life
• LPSN
• Type strain of Gemmatimonas aurantiaca at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase