Brevibacterium

Brevibacterium is a genus of bacteria of the order Micrococcales.^[1] They are Gram-positive soil organisms.

Brevibacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetia
Order:	Micrococcales
Family:	Brevibacteriaceae
Genus:	Brevibacterium Breed 1953[1]
Type species
Brevibacterium linens (Wolff 1910) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species
See text.

Species

Brevibacterium comprises the following species:^[2]

• B. album Tang et al. 2008
• B. ammoniilyticum Kim et al. 2013
• B. anseongense Jung et al. 2019
• B. antiquum Gavrish et al. 2005
• B. atlanticum Pei et al. 2022
• B. aurantiacum Gavrish et al. 2005
• "B. aureum" Seghal Kiran et al. 2010
• B. avium Pascual and Collins 1999
• B. casei Collins et al. 1983
• B. celere Ivanova et al. 2004
• B. daeguense Cui et al. 2013
• B. epidermidis Collins et al. 1983
• B. hankyongi Choi et al. 2018
• "B. ihuae" Valles et al. 2018
• B. iodinum (ex Davis 1939) Collins et al. 1981
• B. jeotgali Choi et al. 2013
• "B. ketoglutamicum" Stackebrandt and Woese 1981
• B. limosum Pei et al. 2022
• B. linens (Wolff 1910) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
• B. luteolum corrig. Wauters et al. 2003
• B. marinum Lee 2008
• B. mcbrellneri McBride et al. 1994
• "B. metallicus" Roman-Ponce et al. 2015
• "B. methylicum" Nesvera et al. 1991
• B. oceani Bhadra et al. 2008
• B. otitidis Pascual et al. 1996
• B. paucivorans Wauters et al. 2001
• B. permense Gavrish et al. 2005
• B. picturae Heyrman et al. 2004
• "B. pigmentatum" Pei et al. 2021
• B. pityocampae Kati et al. 2010
• B. profundi Pei et al. 2020
• B. ravenspurgense Mages et al. 2009
• "B. renqingii" Yan et al. 2021
• B. rongguiense Deng et al. 2020
• B. salitolerans Guan et al. 2010
• B. samyangense Lee 2006
• B. sandarakinum Kämpfer et al. 2010
• B. sanguinis Wauters et al. 2004
• B. sediminis Chen et al. 2016
• B. senegalense Kokcha et al. 2013
• B. siliguriense Kumar et al. 2013
• B. yomogidense Tonouchi et al. 2013

Further reading

Mimura, Haruo (September 2014). "Growth Enhancement of the Halotolerant "Brevibacterium" sp JCM 6894 by Methionine Externally Added to a Chemically Defined Medium". Biocontrol Science 19 (3): 151–155.

Shabbiri, Khadija; Botting, Catherine H.; Adnan, Ahmad; Fuszard, Matthew; Naseem, Shahid; Ahmed, Safeer; Shujaat, Shahida; Syed, Quratulain; Ahmad, Waqar (April 2014). "An Investigation into Membrane Bound Redox Carriers Involved in Energy Transduction Mechanism in Brevibacterium linens DSM 20158 with Unsequenced Genome". Journal of Membrane Biology. 247 (4): 345–355. doi:10.1007/s00232-014-9641-4. PMID 24573306. S2CID 251413.

References

1. Breed RS. (1953). "The Brevibacteriaceae fam. nov. of order Eubacteriales". Riassunti delle Communicazioni, VI Congresso Internazionale Microbiologia Roma [Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Microbiology, Rome]. 1: 10–15.
2. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Brevibacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved May 16, 2022.