Rubrobacter xylanophilus

Rubrobacter xylanophilus is a thermophilic species of bacteria. It is slightly halotolerant, short rod- and coccus-shaped and gram-positive, with type strain PRD-1T. It is the only known true radiation resistant thermophile. It can degrade xylan and hemicellulose.[1] The first strain of the genus Rubrobacter was isolated from gamma-irradiated hot spring water samples by Yoshinaka. This organism was found to be extremely gamma-radiation resistant, with a higher shoulder dose than the canonical radiation resistant species of the genus Deinococcus. The organism stained Gram-positive and was slightly thermophilic with an optimum growth temperature of about 60 °C.[2]

Rubrobacter xylanophilus
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R. xylanophilus
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Rubrobacter xylanophilus
Carreto et al. 1996

References

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  1. ^ Carreto, L.; Moore, E.; Nobre, M. F.; Wait, R.; Riley, P. W.; Sharp, R. J.; Da Costa, M. S. (1996). "Rubrobacter xylanophilus sp. nov., a New Thermophilic Species Isolated from a Thermally Polluted Effluent". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (2): 460–465. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-2-460. ISSN 0020-7713.
  2. ^ Home - Rubrobacter xylanophilus DSM 9941. (n.d.). Retrieved May 02, 2017, from http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/rubxy/rubxy.home.html

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  1. ^ Home - Rubrobacter xylanophilus DSM 9941. (n.d.). Retrieved May 02, 2017, from http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/rubxy/rubxy.home.html