Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis

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Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Gamma Proteobacteria
Order: Pseudomonadales
Family: Pseudomonadaceae
Genus: Pseudomonas
Species: P. frederiksbergensis
Binomial name
Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis
Andersen, et al. 2000

Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis is a Gram-negative, phenanthrene-degrading bacterium from a coal gasification site in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark[1]. It is able to catalyse the asymmetric oxidation of sulfides to give exclusively the R enantiomer[2]. The type strain is DSM 13022.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Andersen, et al. (2000 Nov). "Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis sp. nov., isolated from soil at a coal gasification site". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50 (Pt 6): 1957–64. PMID 11155968. 
  2. ^ Adam, et al. (2005 Apr). "Opposite enantioselectivities of two phenotypically and genotypically similar strains of Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis in bacterial whole-cell sulfoxidation". Appl Environ Microbiol 71 (Pt 4): 2199–202. PMID 15812060. 
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