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==Description and significance== | ==Description and significance== | ||
<i>Nonlabens ulvanivorans</i> stains gram-negative and is a peach-colored, rod-shaped, non-gliding, strictly aerobic, chemo-organotroph originally isolated from the feces of the mollusk <i>Aplasia punctate</i> at Presqu'île de Pen Lan, Pleubian, Brittany, France in 2011 [1]. <i> N.ulvanivorans</i> is considered novel for its ability to degrade and metabolize ulvan, an essential polysaccharide component of the cell-wall matrix of green seaweeds of the phylum <i>Chlorophyta</i> and order <i>Ulvales</i> [1]. The structure and biological functions of Ulvan are currently the subjects for research the polysaccharide's potential in products of therapeutic, nutraceutical, and personal care value [1]. Thus, understanding the mechanisms by which <i>N. ulvanivorans</i> breaks down and ultimately metabolizes Ulvan is of economic value for the exploitation of the complex polysaccharide. | <i>Nonlabens ulvanivorans</i> stains gram-negative and is a peach-colored, rod-shaped, non-gliding, strictly aerobic, chemo-organotroph originally isolated from the feces of the mollusk <i>Aplasia punctate</i> at Presqu'île de Pen Lan, Pleubian, Brittany, France in 2011 [1]. <i> N.ulvanivorans</i> is considered novel for its ability to degrade and metabolize ulvan, an essential polysaccharide component of the cell-wall matrix of green seaweeds of the phylum <i>Chlorophyta</i> and order <i>Ulvales</i> [1]. The structure and biological functions of Ulvan are currently the subjects for research the polysaccharide's potential in products of therapeutic, nutraceutical, and personal care value [1]. Thus, understanding the mechanisms by which <i>N. ulvanivorans</i> breaks down and ultimately metabolizes Ulvan is of economic value for the exploitation of the complex polysaccharide. <br> | ||
<i>Nonlabens ulvanivorans</i> was originally classified as <i>Persicivirga ulvanivorans</i>, this classification that was challenged and corrected in 2012 by a cross-analysis of the 16S rRNA of four genuses: <i>Nonlabens</i>, <i>Persicivirga</i>, <i>Stenothermobacter</i>, and <i>Sandarakinotalea</i>. It was concluded that the <i>Nonlabens</i> genus was most descriptive of the species in question [3]. | |||
==Genome structure== | ==Genome structure== | ||
Revision as of 21:17, 11 December 2015
A Microbial Biorealm page on the genus Nonlabens ulvanivorans
Classification
Higher order taxa
Domain: Bacteria;
Phylum: Bacteriodetes;
Class: Flavobacteria;
Order: Flavobacteriales;
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
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NCBI: [1] |
Species
Nonlabens ulvanivorans
Description and significance
Nonlabens ulvanivorans stains gram-negative and is a peach-colored, rod-shaped, non-gliding, strictly aerobic, chemo-organotroph originally isolated from the feces of the mollusk Aplasia punctate at Presqu'île de Pen Lan, Pleubian, Brittany, France in 2011 [1]. N.ulvanivorans is considered novel for its ability to degrade and metabolize ulvan, an essential polysaccharide component of the cell-wall matrix of green seaweeds of the phylum Chlorophyta and order Ulvales [1]. The structure and biological functions of Ulvan are currently the subjects for research the polysaccharide's potential in products of therapeutic, nutraceutical, and personal care value [1]. Thus, understanding the mechanisms by which N. ulvanivorans breaks down and ultimately metabolizes Ulvan is of economic value for the exploitation of the complex polysaccharide.
Nonlabens ulvanivorans was originally classified as Persicivirga ulvanivorans, this classification that was challenged and corrected in 2012 by a cross-analysis of the 16S rRNA of four genuses: Nonlabens, Persicivirga, Stenothermobacter, and Sandarakinotalea. It was concluded that the Nonlabens genus was most descriptive of the species in question [3].
Genome structure
Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence?
Cell and colony structure
Interesting features of cell structure. Interesting features of colony structure.
Metabolism
Energy source(s); external electron donor(s) (=reductant source(s)); carbon source(s); oxygen classification; important molecules it produces.
Ecology
Habitat; symbiosis; contributions to the environment. metagenomic data link
Pathology
Does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, plant hosts? Virulence factors.
References
[Sample reference] [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/62/2/330; Sylvie Cousin, Marie-Laure Gulat-Okalla, Laurence Motreff, Catherine Gouyette, Christiane Bouchier, Dominique Clermont, and Chantal Bizet. Lactobacillus gigeriorum sp. nov., isolated from chicken crop. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol February 2012 62:330-334; published ahead of print March 18, 2011.} [doi:10.1099/ijs.0.028217-0.]
Edited by PUT YOUR NAME HERE of Dr. Lisa R. Moore, University of Southern Maine, Department of Biological Sciences, http://www.usm.maine.edu/bio
