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The Genus Xanthobacter

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The Prokaryotes

Introduction

Strains of Xanthobacter autotrophicus, the type species, were originally described as Corynebacterium autotrophicum (Baumgarten et al., 1974) and as “Gram-positive Knallgas bacteria.” They became of interest when Gogotov and Schlegel (1974) found that a strain named “7c” could grow chemolithoautotrophically and use molecular nitrogen (N2) as nitrogen source, a property otherwise not known to exist in other bacteria. Ooyama (1971) had, however, published on N2-fixing chemolithoautotrophic new isolates from Japan, but his publication in a non-mainstream journal did not receive much attention and his strains were never formally described. However, on the basis of the described properties, these isolates were probably Xanthobacter strains. De Bont and Leijten (1976b) observed similar properties with their isolates from The Netherlands. This initiated the isolation of more than 50 strains (Wiegel and Schlegel, 1976) later recognized as members of the novel genus Xanthobacter...

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

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Wiegel, J. (2006). The Genus Xanthobacter . In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30745-1_16

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