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Pseudomonas nitroreducens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria;
Phylum:	Proteobacteria;
Class:	Gamma Proteobacteria;
Order:	Pseudomonadales;
Family:	Pseudomonadaceae;
Genus:	Pseudomonas;
Species:	P. nitroreducens;
Binomial name
	Pseudomonas nitroreducens; Iizuka and Komagata 1964
Type strain
	ATCC 33634; CCUG 12538; CIP 106747; DSM 14399; IAM 1439; JCM 2782; NBRC 12694
Synonyms
	Pseudomonas multiresinivorans Mohn et al. 1999

Pseudomonas nitroreducens is an aerobic, Gram-negative soil bacterium first isolated from oil brine in Japan^[1]. It is able to synthesise polyhydroxybutyrate homopolymer (a polyester) from medium chain length fatty acids^[2]. Based on 16S rRNA analysis, P. nitroreducens has been placed in the P. aeruginosa group^[3].

[edit] References

^ Iizuka, H., and Komagata, K. (1964). "Microbiological studies on petroleum and natural gas. I. Determination of hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria". J of Gen and Appl Microbio 10: 207–221.
^ Yao J, Zhang G, Wu Q, Chen GQ, Zhang R. (1999) Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates by Pseudomonas nitroreducens. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 75(4):345-9. PMID 10510722
^ Anzai, et al. (2000, Jul). "Phylogenetic affiliation of the pseudomonads based on 16S rRNA sequence". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50 (Pt 4): 1563–89. PMID 10939664.

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