A Database of Biochemical Test of Proteobacteria

Alpha Proteobacteria

The first class of Proteobacteria is the Alphaproteobacteria. The unifying characteristic of this class is that they are oligotrophs, organisms capable of living in low-nutrient environments such as deep oceanic sediments, glacial ice, or deep undersurface soil.

Among the Alphaproteobacteria are two taxa, chlamydias and rickettsias, that are obligate intracellular pathogens, meaning that part of their life cycle must occur inside other cells called host cells. When not growing inside a host cell, Chlamydia and Rickettsia are metabolically inactive outside of the host cell. They cannot synthesize their own adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and, therefore, rely on cells for their energy needs.

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PARACOCCUS KOCURII

Class:	Alpha Proteobacteria
Genus:	Paracoccus
Species:	Paracoccus kocurii
Description:	Paracoccus kocurii,a Tetramethylammonium-Assimilating Bacterium.A new species of tetramethylammonium-assimilating bacteria was isolated from an activated sludge which was used for the treatment of tetramethylammonium hydroxide contained in the wastewater from semiconductor manufacturing processes. Cells of the bacteria were gram-negative, nonmotile, short rods (0.5 to 0.8 μm by 0.7 to 1.1 μm).
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Source:	Isolated from an activated sludge which was used for the treatment of tetramethylammonium hydroxide contained in the wastewater from semiconductor manufacturing processes.
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Genbank:	D32241. (16S rRNA gene) [Genome] [Nucleotide]
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Reference:	OHARA (M.), KATAYAMA (Y.), TSUZAKI (M.), NAKAMOTO (S.) and KURAISHI (H.): Paracoccus kocurii sp. nov., a tetramethylammonium-assimilating bacterium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1990, 40, 292-296.
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PARACOCCUS KOCURII