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Serratia proteamaculans

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Serratia proteamaculans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Yersiniaceae
Genus: Serratia
Species:
S. proteamaculans
Binomial name
Serratia proteamaculans
(Paine and Stansfield 1919)
Grimont et al. 1978
Synonyms

Pseudomonas proteamaculans Paine and Stansfield 1919
Xantomonas proteamaculans (Paine and Stansfield 1919) Burkholder 1948
Erwinia proteamaculans (Paine and Stansfield 1919) Dye 1966

Serratia proteamaculans is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. S. proteamaculans HY-3 isolated from the digestive tract of a spider produces an extracellular protease named arazyme, with an estimated molecular mass of 51.5 kDa.

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