Caulobacter
{{short description|Genus of bacteria}}
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| image_alt = "Caulobacter crescentus"
| image_caption = Caulobacter crescentus
| taxon = Caulobacter
| authority = Poindexter 1964
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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Caulobacter is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the class Alphaproteobacteria.{{cite journal|last=Poindexter|first=JS|journal=Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. |date=Sep 1964|volume=28|issue=3|pages=231–95|pmid=14220656|pmc=441226|title=Biological Properties and Classification of the Caulobacter Group|doi=10.1128/mmbr.28.3.231-295.1964}} Its best-known member is Caulobacter crescentus, an organism ubiquitous in freshwater lakes and rivers; many members of the genus are specialized to oligotrophic environments.
Interactions with other organisms
=Pathogenicity=
Although Caulobacter is not commonly appreciated as a cause of human diseases, Caulobacter isolates have been implicated in a number of cases of recurrent peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients.{{cite journal |display-authors=etal |last1=Justesen |first1=Ulrik |last2=Holt |first2=Hanne |title=Report of the First Human Case of Caulobacter sp. Infection |journal=Journal of Clinical Microbiology |date=April 2007 |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=1366–1369 |doi=10.1128/JCM.02380-06 |pmid=17267638 |pmc=1865810 }}{{cite journal |display-authors=etal |last1=Rosado |first1=Consolación |last2=Manzanedo |first2=Rosario |title=Recurrent Peritonitis Due to Caulobacter crescentus as a Rare Cause of Dialysis Technique Failure |journal=Peritoneal Dialysis International |date=December 2015 |volume=35 |issue=7 |pages=766–767 |doi=10.3747/pdi.2014.00293|pmid=26703852 |pmc=4690638 }} One study has identified the species C. crescentus and C. mirare as the cause of a disease of the moth Galleria mellonella; the absence of identified distinct virulence factors in C. mirare may suggest that other Caulobacter species have pathogenic potential.{{cite journal |last1=Moore |first1=Gabriel |last2=Gitai |first2=Zemer |title=Both clinical and environmental Caulobacter species are virulent in the Galleria mellonella infection model |journal=PLOS ONE |date=12 March 2020 |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=e0230006 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0230006|pmid=32163465 |pmc=7067423 |bibcode=2020PLoSO..1530006M |doi-access=free }}
References
External links
- https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Caulobacter
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=75&lvl=3&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
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