''Sphingomonas aurantiaca'' is a
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wa ...
and
psychrotolerant bacteria from the genus of
Sphingomonas
''Sphingomonas'' was defined in 1990 as a group of Gram-negative, rod-shaped, chemoheterotrophic, strictly aerobic bacteria. They possess ubiquinone 10 as their major respiratory quinone, contain glycosphingolipids (GSLs), specifically ceramide ...
which has been isolated from indoor dusts from animal sheds in
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
.
[UniProt]
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References
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External links
Type strain of ''Sphingomonas aurantiaca'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
aurantiaca
Bacteria described in 2003
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