Deinococcus murrayi is a bacterium. It produces orange-pigmented colonies and has an optimum growth temperature of about 45 °C (113 °F) to 50 °C (122 °F). It is extremely gamma radiation-resistant. Its type strain is ALT-1b (= DSM 11303).[1]
| Deinococcus murrayi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Deinococcota |
| Class: | Deinococci |
| Order: | Deinococcales |
| Family: | Deinococcaceae |
| Genus: | Deinococcus |
| Species: | D. murrayi
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| Binomial name | |
| Deinococcus murrayi Ferreira et al. 1997
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References
edit- ^ Ferreira, A. C.; Nobre, M. F.; Rainey, F. A.; Silva, M. T.; Wait, R.; Burghardt, J.; Chung, A. P.; Da Costa, M. S. (1997). "Deinococcus geothermalis sp. nov. and Deinococcus murrayi sp. nov., Two Extremely Radiation-Resistant and Slightly Thermophilic Species from Hot Springs". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (4): 939–947. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-4-939. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9336890.
Further reading
edit- Wanarska, Marta; Krawczyk, Beata; Hildebrandt, Piotr; Kur, Józef (2011). "RecA Proteins from Deinococcus geothermalis and Deinococcus murrayi - Cloning, Purification and Biochemical Characterisation". BMC Molecular Biology. 12 (1): 17. doi:10.1186/1471-2199-12-17. ISSN 1471-2199. PMC 3103430. PMID 21513512.
External links
edit- "Deinococcus murrayi". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- LPSN
- Type strain of Deinococcus murrayi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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