| 词条 | Bacillus |
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| image = Bacillus subtilis Gram.jpg | image_caption = Bacillus subtilis, Gram stained | taxon = Bacillus | authority = Cohn, 1872[1] | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision =B. acidiceler B. acidicola B. acidiproducens B. acidocaldarius B. acidoterrestris B. aeolius B. aerius B. aerophilus B. agaradhaerens B. agri B. aidingensis B. akibai B. alcalophilus B. algicola B. alginolyticus B. alkalidiazotrophicus B. alkalinitrilicus B. alkalisediminis B. alkalitelluris B. altitudinis B. alveayuensis B. alvei B. amyloliquefaciens
B. amylolyticus B. andreesenii B. aneurinilyticus B. anthracis B. aquimaris B. arenosi B. arseniciselenatis B. arsenicus B. aurantiacus B. arvi B. aryabhattai B. asahii B. atrophaeus B. axarquiensis B. azotofixans B. azotoformans B. badius B. barbaricus B. bataviensis B. beijingensis B. benzoevorans B. beringensis B. berkeleyi B. beveridgei B. bogoriensis B. boroniphilus B. borstelensis B. brevis Migula B. butanolivorans B. canaveralius B. carboniphilus B. cecembensis B. cellulosilyticus B. centrosporus B. cereus B. chagannorensis B. chitinolyticus B. chondroitinus B. choshinensis B. chungangensis B. cibi B. circulans B. clarkii B. clausii B. coagulans B. coahuilensis B. cohnii B. composti B. curdlanolyticus B. cycloheptanicus B. cytotoxicus B. daliensis B. decisifrondis B. decolorationis B. deserti B. dipsosauri B. drentensis B. edaphicus B. ehimensis B. eiseniae B. enclensis B. endophyticus B. endoradicis B. farraginis B. fastidiosus B. fengqiuensis B. firmus B. flexus B. foraminis B. fordii B. formosus B. fortis B. fumarioli B. funiculus B. fusiformis B. galactophilus B. galactosidilyticus B. galliciensis B. gelatini B. gibsonii B. ginsengi B. ginsengihumi B. ginsengisoli B. glucanolyticus B. gordonae B. gottheilii B. graminis B. halmapalus B. haloalkaliphilus B. halochares B. halodenitrificans B. halodurans B. halophilus B. halosaccharovorans B. hemicellulosilyticus B. hemicentroti B. herbersteinensis B. horikoshii B. horneckiae B. horti B. huizhouensis B. humi B. hwajinpoensis B. idriensis B. indicus B. infantis B. infernus B. insolitus B. invictae B. iranensis B. isabeliae B. isronensis B. jeotgali B. kaustophilus B. kobensis B. kochii B. kokeshiiformis B. koreensis B. korlensis B. kribbensis B. krulwichiae B. laevolacticus B. larvae B. laterosporus B. lautus B. lehensis B. lentimorbus B. lentus B. licheniformis B. ligniniphilus B. litoralis B. locisalis B. luciferensis B. luteolus B. luteus B. macauensis B. macerans B. macquariensis B. macyae B. malacitensis B. mannanilyticus B. marisflavi B. marismortui B. marmarensis B. massiliensis B. megaterium B. mesonae B. methanolicus B. methylotrophicus B. migulanus B. mojavensis B. mucilaginosus B. muralis B. murimartini B. mycoides B. naganoensis B. nanhaiensis B. nanhaiisediminis B. nealsonii B. neidei B. neizhouensis B. niabensis B. niacini B. novalis B. oceanisediminis B. odysseyi B. okhensis B. okuhidensis B. oleronius B. oryzaecorticis B. oshimensis B. pabuli B. pakistanensis B. pallidus B. pallidus B. panacisoli B. panaciterrae B. pantothenticus B. parabrevis B. paraflexus B. pasteurii B. patagoniensis B. peoriae B. persepolensis B. persicus B. pervagus B. plakortidis B. pocheonensis B. polygoni B. polymyxa B. popilliae B. pseudalcalophilus B. pseudofirmus B. pseudomycoides B. psychrodurans B. psychrophilus B. psychrosaccharolyticus B. psychrotolerans B. pulvifaciens B. pumilus B. purgationiresistens B. pycnus B. qingdaonensis B. qingshengii B. reuszeri B. rhizosphaerae B. rigui B. ruris B. safensis B. salarius B. salexigens B. saliphilus B. schlegelii B. sediminis B. selenatarsenatis B. selenitireducens B. seohaeanensis B. shacheensis B. shackletonii B. siamensis B. silvestris B. simplex B. siralis B. smithii B. soli B. solimangrovi B. solisalsi B. songklensis B. sonorensis B. sphaericus B. sporothermodurans B. stearothermophilus B. stratosphericus B. subterraneus B. subtilis
B. tequilensis B. thermantarcticus B. thermoaerophilus B. thermoamylovorans B. thermocatenulatus B. thermocloacae B. thermocopriae B. thermodenitrificans B. thermoglucosidasius B. thermolactis B. thermoleovorans B. thermophilus B. thermoruber B. thermosphaericus B. thiaminolyticus B. thioparans B. thuringiensis B. tianshenii B. trypoxylicola B. tusciae B. validus B. vallismortis B. vedderi B. velezensis B. vietnamensis B. vireti B. vulcani B. wakoensis B. xiamenensis B. xiaoxiensis B. zhanjiangensis}}Bacillus (Latin "stick") is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria, a member of the phylum Firmicutes, with 266 named species. The term is also used to describe the shape (rod) of certain bacteria; and the plural Bacilli is the name of the class of bacteria to which this genus belongs. Bacillus species can be either obligate aerobes: oxygen dependent; or facultative anaerobes: having the ability to be anaerobic in the absence of oxygen. Cultured Bacillus species test positive for the enzyme catalase if oxygen has been used or is present.[2]Bacillus can reduce themselves to oval endospores and can remain in this dormant state for years. Endospore formation is usually triggered by a lack of nutrients: the bacterium divides within its cell wall, and one side then engulfs the other. They are not true spores (i.e., not an offspring).[3] Endospore formation originally defined the genus, but not all such species are closely related, and many species have been moved to other genera of the Firmicutes.[4] Ubiquitous in nature, Bacillus includes both free-living (nonparasitic) species, and two parasitic pathogenic species. These two Bacillus species are medically significant: B. anthracis causes anthrax; and B. cereus causes food poisoning. Many species of Bacillus can produce copious amounts of enzymes which are used in various industries, such as the production of alpha amylase used in starch hydrolysis, and the protease subtilisin used in detergents. B. subtilis is a valuable model for bacterial research. StructureCell wallThe cell wall of Bacillus is a structure on the outside of the cell that forms the second barrier between the bacterium and the environment, and at the same time maintains the rod shape and withstands the pressure generated by the cell's turgor. The cell wall is composed of teichoic and teichuronic acids. B. subtilis is the first bacterium for which the role of an actin-like cytoskeleton in cell shape determination and peptidoglycan synthesis was identified, and for which the entire set of peptidoglycan-synthesizing enzymes was localised. The role of the cytoskeleton in shape generation and maintenance is important. Discovery and namingThe genus Bacillus was named in 1835 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, to contain rod-shaped (bacillus) bacteria. He had seven years earlier named the genus Bacterium. Bacillus was later amended by Ferdinand Cohn to further describe them as spore-forming, Gram-positive, aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria.[5] Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas and Vibrio, the 266 species of Bacillus are ubiquitous.[6] The genus has a very large ribosomal 16S diversity. Isolation and identificationAn easy way to isolate Bacillus species is by placing nonsterile soil in a test tube with water, shaking, placing in melted mannitol salt agar, and incubating at room temperature for at least a day. Cultured colonies are usually large, spreading, and irregularly shaped. Under the microscope, the Bacillus cells appear as rods, and a substantial portion of the cells usually contain oval endospores at one end, making them bulge. PhylogenyThree proposals have been presented as representing the phylogeny of the genus Bacillus. The first proposal, presented in 2003, is a Bacillus-specific study, with the most diversity covered using 16S and the ITS regions. It divides the genus into 10 groups. This includes the nested genera Paenibacillus, Brevibacillus, Geobacillus, Marinibacillus and Virgibacillus.[7] The second proposal, presented in 2008,[8] constructed a 16S (and 23S if available) tree of all validated species.[9][10] The genus Bacillus contains a very large number of nested taxa and majorly in both 16S and 23S. It is paraphyletic to the Lactobacillales (Lactobacillus, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Listeria, etc.), due to Bacillus coahuilensis and others. A third proposal, presented in 2010, was a gene concatenation study, and found results similar to the 2008 proposal, but with a much more limited number of species in terms of groups.[11] (This scheme used Listeria as an outgroup, so in light of the ARB tree, it may be "inside-out"). One clade, formed by B. anthracis, B. cereus, B. mycoides, B. pseudomycoides, B. thuringiensis, and B. weihenstephanensis under the 2011 classification standards, should be a single species (within 97% 16S identity), but due to medical reasons, they are considered separate species[12]{{rp|34–35}} (an issue also present for four species of Shigella and Escherichia coli).[13] {{cladogram|title=Bacillus phylogenetics |align=none |caption=Phylogeny of the genus Bacillus according to [11] |cladogram={{clade |label1=Root |1={{clade |label1="pathogenic" |1={{clade |1=Bacillus weihenstephanensis |2=Bacillus cereus/thuringiensis/anthracis |2={{clade |label1="soil" |1={{clade |1=Bacillus pumilus |2={{clade |1=Bacillus subtilis |2=Bacillus licheniformis }} }} |2={{clade |label1="benthic" |1=Geobacillus kaustophilus |2={{clade |label1="aquatic" |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=Bacillus coahuilensis |2=Bacillus sp. m3-13 }} |2=Bacillus sp. NRRLB-14911 |2={{clade |label1="benthic" |1=Oceanobacillus iheyensis |label2="halophiles" |2={{clade |1=Bacillus halodurans |2=Bacillus clausii }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} Ecological significanceBacillus species are ubiquitous in nature, e.g. in soil. They can occur in extreme environments such as high pH (B. alcalophilus), high temperature (B. thermophilus), and high salt concentrations (B. halodurans). B. thuringiensis produces a toxin that can kill insects and thus has been used as insecticide.[14] B. siamensis has antimicrobial compounds that inhibit plant pathogens, such as the fungi Rhizoctonia solani and Botrytis cinerea, and they promote plant growth by volatile emissions.[15] Some species of Bacillus are naturally competent for DNA uptake by transformation.[16]Clinical significance
Industrial significanceMany Bacillus species are able to secrete large quantities of enzymes. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens is the source of a natural antibiotic protein barnase (a ribonuclease), alpha amylase used in starch hydrolysis, the protease subtilisin used with detergents, and the BamH1 restriction enzyme used in DNA research. A portion of the Bacillus thuringiensis genome was incorporated into corn (and cotton) crops. The resulting GMOs are resistant to some insect pests. Use as model organismBacillus subtilis is one of the best understood prokaryotes, in terms of molecular and cellular biology. Its superb genetic amenability and relatively large size have provided the powerful tools required to investigate a bacterium from all possible aspects. Recent improvements in fluorescent microscopy techniques have provided novel insight into the dynamic structure of a single cell organism. Research on B. subtilis has been at the forefront of bacterial molecular biology and cytology, and the organism is a model for differentiation, gene/protein regulation, and cell cycle events in bacteria.[18]See also
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