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]
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Scientific classification 
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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]
Species
edit- Pedobacter africanus
- Pedobacter agri
- Pedobacter alluvionis
- Pedobacter arcticus
- Pedobacter borealis
- Pedobacter cryoconitis
- Pedobacter ginsengisoli
- Pedobacter heparinus
- Pedobacter insulae
- Pedobacter jejuensis
- Pedobacter lentus
- Pedobacter lusitanus[3]
- Pedobacter nyackensis
- Pedobacter rhizosphaerae
- Pedobacter soli
- Pedobacter terricola
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
edit- Kook, MooChang; Park, YongJin; Yi, Tae-Hoo (2014). "Pedobacter jejuensis sp nov., isolated from soil of a pine grove, and emended description of the genus Pedobacter". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 64 (Part 5): 1789–1794. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.058024-0. PMID 24573158.