Parvibaculum lavamentivorans

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Classification

Higher order taxa

Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rhizobiales; Rhodobiaceae

Species

Parvibaculum lavamentivorans

Description and Significance

Parvibaculum lavamentivorans DS-1T is a non-pigmented, aerobic, heterotrophic bacterium. 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 [1]

Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle

Parvibaculum lavamentivorans

Ecology

References

Schleheck, D., Dong, W., et al. "An alpha-proteobacterium converts linear alkylbenzenesulfonate surfactants into sulfophenylcarboxylates and linear alkyldiphenyletherdisulfonate surfactants into sulfodiphenylethercarboxylates." ‘’Applied Environmental Microbiology.’’ 2000. Volume 66. p. 1911-1916.

Schleheck, D., Lechner, M., et al. "Desulfonation and degradation of the disulfodiphenylethercarboxylates from linear alkyldiphenyletherdisulfonate surfactants." ‘’Applied Environmental Microbiology.’’ 2003. Volume 69. p. 938-944.

Schleheck, D., Tindall, B., Rosselló-Mora, R., and Cook, A. "Parvibaculum lavamentivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel heterotroph that initiates catabolism of linear alkylbenzenesulfonate." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2004. Volume 54. p. 1489-1497.

Schleheck, D., Knepper, T., et al. "Mineralization of individual congeners of linear alkylbenzenesulfonate by defined pairs of heterotrophic bacteria." ‘’Applied Environmental Microbiology.’’ 2004. Volume 70. p. 4053-4063.

Dong, W., Eichhorn, P., et al. "Parvibaculum lavamentivorans converts linear alkylbenzenesulphonate surfactant to sulphophenylcarboxylates, alpha,beta-unsaturated sulphophenylcarboxylates and sulphophenyldicarboxylates, which are degraded in communities. ‘’Journal of Applied Microbiology.’’ 2004. Volume 96. p. 630-640.

Schleheck, D., Cook, A. "Omega-oxygenation of the alkyl sidechain of linear alkylbenzenesulfonate (LAS) surfactant in Parvibaculum lavamentivorans(T)." ‘’Archives of Microbiology.’’ 2005. Volume 183. p. 369-377.

Schleheck, D., Knepper, T., et al. "Parvibaculum lavamentivorans DS-1T degrades centrally substituted congeners of commercial linear alkylbenzenesulfonate to sulfophenyl" carboxylates and sulfophenyl dicarboxylates. ‘’Applied Environmental Microbiology’’. 2004. Volume 70. p. 4053-4063.

Schleheck, D., Weiss, M., et al. "Complete genome sequence of Parvibaculum lavamentivorans type strain (DS-1(T))." Standard Genomic Science. 2011. Volume 5. p. 298-310.

Author

Page authored by Luke Pryke and Hannah Pak, students of Prof. Jay Lennon at Indiana University.