Rubrobacter xylanophilus Carreto et al., 1996
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
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Classification
- phylum
- Actinomycetota
- class
- Rubrobacteria
- order
- Rubrobacterales
- family
- Rubrobacteraceae
- genus
- Rubrobacter
- species
- Rubrobacter xylanophilus
Abstract
Rubrobacter xylanophilus is a thermophilic species of bacteria. It is slightly halotolerant, short rod- and coccus-shaped and gram-positive, with type strain PRD-1T. It is the only true radiation resistant thermophile. It can degrade xylan and hemicellulose. The first strain of the genus Rubrobacter was isolated from gamma-irradiated hot spring water samples by Yoshinaka. This organism was found to be extremely gamma-radiation resistant, with a higher shoulder dose than the canonical radiation resistant species of the genus Deinococcus. The organism stained Gram-positive and was slightly thermophilic with an optimum growth temperature of about 60 °C.Home - Rubrobacter xylanophilus DSM 9941. (n.d.). Retrieved May 02, 2017, from http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/rubxy/rubxy.home.html