Pedobacter

Pedobacter
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacteroidetes
Class:	Sphingobacteria
Order:	Sphingobacteriales
Family:	Sphingobacteriaceae
Genus:	Pedobacter

Pedobacter is a genus of Gram-negative soil-associated bacteria. Species including Pedobacter heparinus, formerly known as Flavobacterium heparinum, produce heparinase and are capable of using heparin as their sole carbon and nitrogen source.^[1]

In molecular biology, Pedobacter has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents and ultra-pure water systems, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.^[2]

Species

• Pedobacter africanus
• Pedobacter agri
• Pedobacter alluvionis
• Pedobacter arcticus
• Pedobacter borealis
• Pedobacter cryoconitis
• Pedobacter ginsengisoli
• Pedobacter heparinus
• Pedobacter insulae
• Pedobacter jejuensis
• Pedobacter lentus
• Pedobacter nyackensis
• Pedobacter rhizosphaerae
• Pedobacter saltans
• Pedobacter soli
• Pedobacter terricola

References

1. Shaya, D (2006). "Crystal structure of heparinase II from Pedobacter heparinus and its complex with a disaccharide product.". J. Biol. Chem. 281: 15525–35. doi:10.1074/jbc.m512055200. PMID 16565082.
2. Salter, S; Cox, M; Turek, E; Calus, S; Cookson, W; Moffatt, M; Turner, P; Parkhill, J; Loman, N; Walker, A (2014). "Reagent contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses". bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/007187.

Further reading

• Kook, MooChang; Park, YongJin; Yi, Tae-Hoo (2014). "Pedobacter jejuensis sp nov., isolated from soil of a pine grove, and emended description of the genus Pedobacter". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 64 (Part 5): 1789–1794. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.058024-0. PMID 24573158. Retrieved 12 November 2014.