Department of Microbiology, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kolkata 700054, India.
J Bacteriol. 2011 Oct;193(19):5553-4. doi: 10.1128/JB.05781-11.
The chemolithoautotrophic betaproteobacterium Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis belongs to the family Alcaligenaceae and is phylogenetically closely related to pathogens such as Taylorella and Bordetella species. While a complete inorganic sulfur oxidation gene cluster, soxCDYZAXWB, is present in its genome, pathogenicity islands or genes associated with virulence, disease, cellular invasion, and/or intracellular resistance are completely absent.
化能自养的β变形菌科的 Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis 属于产碱杆菌科,与病原体如泰勒菌属和百日咳鲍特菌属密切相关。尽管其基因组中存在完整的无机硫氧化基因簇 soxCDYZAXWB,但不存在与毒力、疾病、细胞侵袭和/或细胞内抗性相关的致病岛或基因。