Yokenella

Yokenella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Yokenella
Kosako, 1984
Species

Y. regensburgei

Yokenella is a genus of bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Yokenella are Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacteria. Strains of bacteria forming this genus were originally isolated from clinical samples, from the boxelder bug, and from alligators.

There is only one species in this genus: Yokenella regensburgei.

Yokenella is not an important pathogen, but it has been found in sporadic cases of finger osteitis, necrotizing fasciitis, in urinary tract infections, and a few other diseases, some of which may have been caused by immunosupression.

A draft genome sequence is 5,277,883 bp in size and has 5,416 genes. The genome is thus larger than average bacterial genomes, such as Escherichia coli whose genome is about 4 MB in size.

References

  1. ↑ Kosako, Y; Sakazaki, R; Yoshizaki, E (June 1984). "Yokenella regensburgei gen. nov., sp. nov.: a new genus and species in the family Enterobacteriaceae". Japanese Journal of Medical Science & Biology. 37 (3): 117–24. doi:10.7883/yoken1952.37.117. PMID 6503024.
  2. ↑ Balamayooran, Gayathriy; Cooper, Clark; Paul, Narayan C.; Ferro, Pamela J.; Rice, Laura; Gomez, Gabriel; Díaz-Delgado, Josué (2022). "Yokenella regensburgei, a novel pathogen in farmed American alligators". Veterinary Pathology. 59 (3): 476–481. doi:10.1177/03009858211069165. ISSN 1544-2217. PMID 35001744. S2CID 245834582.
  3. ↑ LPSN LSPN bacterio.net
  4. ↑ Denes, Eric; Alain, Jérome; Lenoir, Isabelle (2022). "Finger osteitis due to Yokenella regensburgei in an immunocompetent patient". Infectious Diseases Now. 52 (3): 177–178. doi:10.1016/j.idnow.2021.11.004. ISSN 2666-9919. PMID 34838773. S2CID 263490589.
  5. ↑ Wright, William F.; Utz, Jena L.; Bruckhart, Christina; Baghli, Salim; Janda, J. Michael (2019). "Yokenella regensburgei necrotizing fasciitis in an immunocompromised host". Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy. 25 (10): 816–819. doi:10.1016/j.jiac.2019.03.025. ISSN 1437-7780. PMID 31003955. S2CID 125038901.
  6. ↑ V, Annie Sheeba; Suji, Thangamani; Jayanth, Selvin Theodore; Sahni, Rani Diana (2023). "Yokenella regensburgei urinary tract infection in an immunocompetent patient: a case report". Access Microbiology. 5 (10) 000571.v4. doi:10.1099/acmi.0.000571.v4. ISSN 2516-8290. PMC 10634489. PMID 37970085.
  7. ↑ Lo, Y.-C.; Chuang, Y.-W.; Lin, Y.-H. (2011). "Yokenella regensburgei in an immunocompromised host: a case report and review of the literature". Infection. 39 (5): 485–488. doi:10.1007/s15010-011-0139-z. ISSN 1439-0973. PMID 21706224. S2CID 41960105.
  8. ↑ Meyers, Desiree J.; Leigh, Brittany A.; Huntemann, Marcel; Clum, Alicia; Ritter, Stephan; Palaniappan, Krishnaveni; Chen, I.-Min; Stamatis, Dimitrios; Reddy, T. B. K.; O'Malley, Ronan; Daum, Chris; Shapiro, Nicole; Ivanova, Natalia; Kyrpides, Nikos C.; Woyke, Tanja (2020-04-09). "Draft Genome Sequence of Yokenella regensburgei Strain WCD67, Isolated from the Boxelder Bug". Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9 (15): e00104–20. doi:10.1128/MRA.00104-20. ISSN 2576-098X. PMC 7380535. PMID 32273354.