Rhodoblastus acidophilus, formerly known as Rhodopseudomonas acidophila, is a gram-negative purple non-sulfur bacteria.[1][2] The cells are rod-shaped or ovoid, 1.0 to 1.3 μm wide and 2 to 5 μm long. They are motile by means of polar flagella, and they multiply by budding. The photopigments consist of bacteriochlorophyll a and carotenoids of the spirilloxanthin series. All strains can grow either under anaerobic conditions in the light or under microaerophilic to aerobic conditions in the dark.
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References
edit- ^ Pfennig N (August 1969). "Rhodopseudomonas acidophila, sp. n., a new species of the budding purple nonsulfur bacteria". Journal of Bacteriology. 99 (2): 597–602. doi:10.1128/jb.99.2.597-602.1969. PMC 250060. PMID 5821103.
- ^ Imhoff JF (September 2001). "Transfer of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila to the new genus Rhodoblastus as Rhodoblastus acidophilus gen. nov., comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 5): 1863–6. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-5-1863. PMID 11594619. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
Further reading
edit- Gardiner, Alastair T.; MacKenzie, R. Christopher; Barrett, Stuart J.; Kaiser, Kim; Cogdell, Richard J. (1996). "The purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila contains multiple puc peripheral antenna complex (LH2) genes: Cloning and initial characterisation of four β/α pairs". Photosynthesis Research. 49 (3): 223–235. doi:10.1007/BF00034783. ISSN 0166-8595. PMID 24271700. S2CID 10368703.
- Tauschel, H.-D.; Hoeniger, Judith F. M. (1974). "The fine structure of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila". Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 20 (1): 13–17. doi:10.1139/m74-003. ISSN 0008-4166. PMID 4822777.
- Russell NJ, Coleman JK, Howard TD, Johnston E, Cogdell RJ (2002). "Rhodopseudomonas acidophila strain 10050 contains photosynthetic LH2 antenna complexes that are not enriched with phosphatidylglycerol, and the phospholipids have a fatty acyl composition that is unusual for purple non-sulfur bacteria". Biochim Biophys Acta. 1556 (2–3): 247–53. doi:10.1016/s0005-2728(02)00369-9. PMID 12460683.
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