Pedobacter is a genus of Gram-negative soil-associated bacteria. Species including Pedobacter heparinus, formerly known as Flavobacterium heparinum, produce heparinase and are capable of using heparin as their sole carbon and nitrogen source.[1]

Pedobacter
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Sphingobacteriia
Order: Sphingobacteriales
Family: Sphingobacteriaceae
Genus: Pedobacter
Steyn et al. 1998
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In molecular biology, Pedobacter has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents and ultra-pure water systems, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Shaya, D (2006). "Crystal structure of heparinase II from Pedobacter heparinus and its complex with a disaccharide product". J. Biol. Chem. 281 (22): 15525–35. doi:10.1074/jbc.m512055200. PMID 16565082.
  2. ^ Salter, S; Cox, M; Turek, E; Calus, S; Cookson, W; Moffatt, M; Turner, P; Parkhill, J; Loman, N; Walker, A (2014). "Reagent contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses". bioRxiv 10.1101/007187.
  3. ^ Covas, Cláudia; Caetano, Tânia; Cruz, Andreia; Santos, Tiago; Dias, Liliana; Klein, Guenter; Abdulmawjood, Amir; Rodríguez-Alcalá, Luis M.; Pimentel, Lígia L.; Gomes, Ana; Freitas, Ana Cristina; Garcia-Serrano, Alba; Fontecha, Javier; Mendo, Sónia (2017). "Pedobacter lusitanus sp. nov., isolated from sludge of a deactivated uranium mine". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67 (5): 1339–1348. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001814. PMID 28109203.

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