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==Description and Significance== | ==Description and Significance== | ||
''Parvibaculum lavamentivorans'' DS-1<sup>T</sup> is a rod shaped, motile, gram-negative, non-pigmented, aerobic, heterotrophic bacterium. Individuals are about 1.0 × 0.2 μm. The species is environmentally significant for its ability to catalyze the degradation of laundry detergents. | ''Parvibaculum lavamentivorans'' DS-1<sup>T</sup> is a rod shaped, motile, gram-negative, non-pigmented, aerobic, heterotrophic bacterium. ''P. lavamentivorans'' readily form biofilms. Individuals are about 1.0 × 0.2 μm. The species is environmentally significant for its ability to catalyze the degradation of laundry detergents. | ||
==Genome Structure== | ==Genome Structure== |
Revision as of 04:02, 28 April 2015
Classification
Higher order taxa
Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rhizobiales; Rhodobiaceae
Species
Parvibaculum lavamentivorans
Description and Significance
Parvibaculum lavamentivorans DS-1T is a rod shaped, motile, gram-negative, non-pigmented, aerobic, heterotrophic bacterium. P. lavamentivorans readily form biofilms. Individuals are about 1.0 × 0.2 μm. The species is environmentally significant for its ability to catalyze the degradation of laundry detergents.
Genome Structure
The genome of Parvibaculum lavamentivorans is completely sequenced for representative strain DS-1T.[1] The DNA is packaged into one chromosome which contains 3.91Mb, 3715 genes and 3648 coding genes with 62.3%GC.
Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle
Parvibaculum lavamentivorans
Ecology
Parvibaculum lavamentivorans is capable of degrading 17 commercially important surfactants including linear alkylbenzenesulfonate (LAS). 2.5 million tons of LAS waste are produced each year. P. lavamentivorans degrades surfactants like LAS and releases short chain intermediates which are further degraded by local microbes.
References
Author
Page authored by Luke Pryke and Hannah Pak, students of Prof. Jay Lennon at Indiana University.