Table 2.
Distribution of bacterial genera in the dataset of known degraders of lignin and/or lignin-derived aromatics index in the eLignin database
| Genus (sorted by phylum) | Number of species in eLignin | References |
|---|---|---|
| Acidobacteria (Gram stain differs with species) | ||
| Holophaga | 1 | Bak et al. (1992) |
| Actinobacteria (Gram-positive) | ||
| Amycolatopsis | 1 | Sutherland (1986) |
| Arthrobacter | 1 | Kerr et al. (1983) |
| Corynebacterium | 1 | Qi et al. (2007) |
| Microbacterium | 1 | Song (2009), Taylor et al. (2012) |
| Micrococcus | 1 | Taylor et al. (2012) |
| Nocardia | 2 | Crawford et al. (1973), Kuhnigk and Konig (1997) |
| Pelobacter | 1 | Schink and Pfennig (1982) |
| Rhodococcus | 11 | Chong et al. (2018), Chung et al. (1994), Eulberg et al. (1997), Henson et al. (2018), Karlson et al. (1993), Kosa and Ragauskas (2012), Sainsbury et al. (2013), Song (2009), Taylor et al. (2012) |
| Streptomyces | 10 | Antai and Crawford (1981), Aoyama et al. (2014), Chow et al. (1999), Davis and Sello (2010), Giroux et al. (1988), Ishiyama et al. (2004), Kuhnigk and Konig (1997), Watanabe et al. (2003), Yang et al. (2012), Zeng et al. (2013) |
| Thermobifida | 1 | Chang et al. (2014) |
| Thermomonospora | 1 | McCarthy and Broda (1984) |
| Bacteroidetes (Gram-negative) | ||
| Dysgonomonas | 1 | Duan et al. (2016b) |
| Sphingobacterium | 1 | Taylor et al. (2012) |
| Firmicutes (mostly Gram-positive) | ||
| Acetoanaerobium | 1 | Duan et al. (2016a) |
| Acetobacterium | 2 | Bache and Pfennig (1981), Kaufmann et al. (1998) |
| Aneurinibacillus | 1 | Raj et al. (2007) |
| Bacillus | 10 | Chandra et al. (2007), Huang et al. (2013), Kuhnigk and Konig (1997), Perestelo et al. (1989), Zhu et al. (2017) |
| Brevibacillus | 2 | Hooda et al. (2015, 2018) |
| Clostridium | 2 | Daniel et al. (1988), Mechichi et al. (1999) |
| Paenibacillus | 3 | Chandra et al. (2007), Crawford et al. (1979), Mathews et al. (2014) |
| Papillibacter | 1 | Defnoun et al. (2000) |
| Spirochaetes (Gram stain differs with species) | ||
| Treponema | 1 | Lucey and Leadbetter (2014) |
| Proteobacteria (Gram-negative) | ||
| Achromobacter | 1 | Benjamin et al. (2016) |
| Acinetobacter | 7 | Delneri et al. (1995), Fischer et al. (2008), González et al. (1993), Kuhnigk and Konig (1997), Mazzoli et al. (2007), Van Dexter and Boopathy (2018), Vasudevan and Mahadevan (1992) |
| Aeromonas | 2 | Deschamps et al. (1980), Gupta et al. (2001) |
| Agrobacterium | 1 | Parke (1997) |
| Alcaligenes | 1 | Kuhnigk and Konig (1997) |
| Aromatoleum | 1 | Rabus and Widdel (1995) |
| Azoarcus | 1 | Gorny et al. (1992) |
| Azotobacter | 2 | Hirose et al. (2013), Groseclose and Ribbons (1981) |
| Bradyrhizobium | 1 | Sudtachat et al. (2009) |
| Burkholderia | 7 | Hamzah and Al-Baharna (1994), Harazono et al. (2003), Kato et al. (1998), Kuhnigk and Konig (1997), Song (2009), Woo et al. (2014b), Yang et al. (2017) |
| Citrobacter | 3 | Chandra and Bharagava (2013), Harazono et al. (2003) |
| Comamonas | 5 | Chen et al. (2012c), Kamimura et al. (2010), Kuhnigk and Konig (1997), Ni et al. (2013), Providenti et al. (2006) |
| Cupriavidus | 5 | Hughes and Bayly (1983), Perez-Pantoja et al. (2008), Sato et al. (2006), Shi et al. (2013a) |
| Desulfobacterium | 2 | Bak and Widdel (1986), Szewzyk and Pfennig (1987) |
| Enterobacter | 5 | DeAngelis et al. (2013), Deschamps et al. (1980), Grbić-Galić (1985), Yoshida et al. (2010) |
| Flavimonas | 1 | Song (2009) |
| Flavobacterium | 1 | Hirose et al. (2013) |
| Klebsiella | 4 | Hirose et al. (2013), Jones and Cooper (1990), Woo et al. (2014a), Xu et al. (2018) |
| Marinobacterium | 1 | González et al. (1997) |
| Mesorhizobium | 1 | Tian et al. (2016) |
| Microbulbifer | 1 | González et al. (1997) |
| Moraxella | 1 | |
| Novosphingobium | 2 | Chen et al. (2012b), Liu et al. (2005) |
| Oceanimonas | 1 | Numata and Morisaki (2015) |
| Ochrobactrum | 6 | Hirose et al. 2013), Kuhnigk and Konig (1997), Taylor et al. (2012), Tsegaye et al. (2018), Xu et al. (2018) |
| Pandoraea | 3 | Bandounas et al. (2011), Kumar et al. (2015), Shi et al. (2013b) |
| Pantoea | 3 | Song (2009), Xiong et al. (2014), Zeida et al. (1998) |
| Pseudomonas | 27 | Chapman and Ribbons (1976), Chowdhury et al. (2004), Cronin et al. (1999), Gao et al. (2005), Hirose et al. (2013), Hirose et al. (2018), Iwabuchi et al. (2015), Jimenez et al. (2002), Jurková and Wurst (1993), Kuhnigk and Konig (1997), Li et al. (2010), Mahiudddin and Fakhruddin (2012), Maruyama et al. (2004), Murray et al. (1972), Narbad and Gasson (1998), Nikodem et al. (2003), Ornston and Parke (1976), Overhage et al. (1999), Perestelo et al. (1996), Ravi et al. (2018), Shettigar et al. (2018), Tian et al. (2016), Xu et al. (2018) |
| Rhizobium | 1 | Jackson et al. (2017) |
| Rhodopseudomonas | 2 | Harwood and Gibson (1988), Salmon et al. (2013) |
| Sagittula | 1 | Gonzalez et al. (1997) |
| Serratia | 5 | Haq et al. (2016), Perestelo et al. (1990), Rhoads et al. (1995), Tian et al. (2016) |
| Sinorhizobium | 1 | MacLean et al. (2006) |
| Sphingobium | 1 | Masai et al. (2007) |
| Sphingomonas | 1 | Balkwill et al. (1997) |
| Stenotrophomonas | 1 | Tian et al. (2016) |
| Sulfuritalea | 1 | Sperfeld et al. (2018) |
| Thauera | 2 | Mechichi et al. (2005), Tschech and Fuchs (1987) |
| Tolumonas | 1 | Billings et al. (2015) |
| Trabulsiella | 1 | Suman et al. (2016) |