Abiotrophia
| Abiotrophia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Firmicutes |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Lactobacillales |
| Family: | Aerococcaceae |
| Genus: | Abiotrophia Y. Kawamura et al. 1995[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. defectiva | |
| Species | |
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Abiotrophia is a genus of lactic acid bacteria, a family in the phylum Firmicutes (Bacteria).
Species
The genus contains 4 species of coccus shaped species,[2] 2 are former members of the genus Streptococcus, which were transferred in 1995 to the newly coined genus Abiotrophia:[1]
- A. adiacens ( (Bouvet et al. 1989) Kawamura et al. 1995; Latin feminine gender adjective adiacens, adjacent, indicating that this organism can grow as satellite colonies adjacent to other bacterial growth.)
- A. defectiva ( (Bouvet et al. 1989) Kawamura et al. 1995, comb. nov. (Type species of the genus).; Latin feminine gender adjective defectiva, deficient.)[3]
Other 2 are latter additions:
- A. balaenopterae ( Lawson et al. 1999; New Latin genitive case noun balaenopterae, pertaining to the minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, from which the organism was isolated.)[4]
- A. elegans ( Roggenkamp et al. 1999; Latin feminine gender adjective elegans, choice, nice, elegant.)[5]
Etymology
The name Abiotrophia derives from: Greek prefix ἄ (a)-, negative (un-); Greek noun βιος (bios), life; Greek noun τροφιά (trophia), nutrition; New Latin feminine gender noun Abiotrophia, life-nutrition-deficiency.[2]
Genome Sequence
For the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), the genome of Abiotrophia defectiva ATCC 49176 has been sequenced (assembly) as it is a resident of human oral cavity and urogenital and intestinal tracts and is a cause of infective endocarditis. showing it to have 3291 protein encoded in a 3.4774 Mbp genome with a GC content or 37.0% [6]
Disease
Formerly classified as nutritionally variant streptococci, A. elegans had been identified as a cause of 1 to 2% of blood culture negative bacterial endocarditis.[7]
References
- 1 2 KAWAMURA (Y.), HOU (X.G.), SULTANA (F.), LIU (S.), YAMAMOTO (H.) and EZAKI (T.): Transfer of Streptococcus adjacens and Streptococcus defectivus to Abiotrophia gen. nov. as Abiotrophia adiacens comb. nov. and Abiotrophia defectiva comb. nov., respectively. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1995, 45, 798-803.
- 1 2 Abiotrophia entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655.]
- ↑ KAWAMURA (Y.), HOU (X.G.), SULTANA (F.), LIU (S.), YAMAMOTO (H.) and EZAKI (T.): Transfer of Streptococcus adiacens and Streptococcus defectivus to Abiotrophia genitive case nov. as Abiotrophia adiacens comb. nov. and Abiotrophia defectiva comb. nov., respectively. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1995, 45, 798-803.
- ↑ Abiotrophia balaenopterae sp. nov., isolated from the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomeprj/33011
- ↑ Sharaf MA, Shaikh N. (Dec 2005). Abiotrophia endocarditis: case report and review of the literature. Can J Cardiol. 21. pp. 1309–11.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235439/http://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/bacterial_nomenclature_info.php?genus=ABIOTROPHIA
- http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/a/abiotrophia.html
- (French) https://web.archive.org/web/20070608043826/http://www.bacterio.cict.fr:80/bacdico/aa/abiotrophia.html