Rhizorhabdus wittichii (Yabuuchi et al., 2001) Hördt et al.
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Proteobacteria
- class
- Alphaproteobacteria
- order
- Sphingomonadales
- family
- Sphingomonadaceae
- genus
- Rhizorhabdus
- species
- Rhizorhabdus wittichii
Abstract
Rhizorhabdus wittichii, formerly Sphingomonas wittichii, is a species of bacteria. It was first isolated from water of the River Elbe by R.-M. Wittich, after whom the species is named. Its type strain is R. wittichii RW1 DSM 6014T (= JCM 10273T = EY 4224T). It is notable for metabolising dibenzo-p-dioxin and phenazine-1-carboxylic acid. Thanks to its wide-ranging metabolic capabilities and likely propensity to acquire novel degradation genes, this organism holds a high potential for biotechnological applications. The R. wittichii RW1 genome is 5,915,246 bp and consists of a single circular chromosome and two plasmids. The unusual arrangement of genes involved in dioxin degradation, and the full description of the dioxin degradation pathway, is still under investigation. The species was originally thought to belong to the genus Sphingomonas, despite poor alignment of its 16S rRNA gene with its putative nearest neighbor. It has since been reclassified to Rhizorhabdus as part of a larger re-evaluation of Alphaproteobacteria.