{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Brevibacterium | authority = Breed 1953<ref name="Breed">{{cite journal | author = Breed RS. | title = The ''Brevibacteriaceae'' fam. nov. of order ''Eubacteriales'' | journal = Riassunti delle Communicazioni, VI Congresso Internazionale Microbiologia Roma [Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Microbiology, Rome] | year = 1953 | volume = 1 | pages = 10–15}}</ref> | type_species = ''Brevibacterium linens'' | type_species_authority = (Wolff 1910) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}
'''''Brevibacterium''''' is a genus of bacteria of the order Micrococcales.<ref name="Breed"/> They are Gram-positive soil organisms.
==Species== ''Brevibacterium'' comprises the following species:<ref name="LPSN">{{cite web|vauthors=Euzéby JP, Parte AC |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/brevibacterium |title=''Brevibacterium'' |access-date=May 16, 2022 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=250px}} <!-- Brevibacterium acetylicum was reclassified as Exiguobacterium acetylicum. --> <!-- Brevibacterium albidum was reclassified as Curtobacterium albidum. --> * ''B. album'' <small>Tang et al. 2008</small> <!-- Brevibacterium ammoniagenes was reclassified as Corynebacterium ammoniagenes. --> * ''B. ammoniilyticum'' <small>Kim et al. 2013</small> * ''B. anseongense'' <small>Jung et al. 2019</small> * ''B. antiquum'' <small>Gavrish et al. 2005</small> * ''B. atlanticum'' <small>Pei et al. 2022</small> * ''B. aurantiacum'' <small>Gavrish et al. 2005</small> * "''B. aureum''" <small>Seghal Kiran et al. 2010</small> * ''B. avium'' <small>Pascual and Collins 1999</small> * ''B. casei'' <small>Collins et al. 1983</small> * ''B. celere'' <small>Ivanova et al. 2004</small> <!-- Brevibacterium citreum was reclassified as Curtobacterium citreum. --> * ''B. daeguense'' <small>Cui et al. 2013</small> <!-- Brevibacterium divaricatum was reclassified as Corynebacterium glutamicum. --> * ''B. epidermidis'' <small>Collins et al. 1983</small> <!-- Brevibacterium fermentans was reclassified as Cellulosimicrobium cellulans. --> <!-- Brevibacterium flavum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> <!-- Brevibacterium frigoritolerans was reclassified as Bacillus frigoritolerans. --> <!-- Brevibacterium fulvum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> <!-- Brevibacterium halotolerans was reclassified as Bacillus halotolerans. --> * ''B. hankyongi'' <small>Choi et al. 2018</small> <!-- Brevibacterium healii was not included in the Approved Lists. --> <!-- Brevibacterium helvolum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> * "''B. ihuae''" <small>Valles et al. 2018</small> <!-- Brevibacterium immotum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> <!-- Brevibacterium imperiale was reclassified as Microbacterium imperiale. --> <!-- Brevibacterium incertum was reclassified as Desemzia incerta. --> * ''B. iodinum'' <small>(ex Davis 1939) Collins et al. 1981</small> * ''B. jeotgali'' <small>Choi et al. 2013</small> * "''B. ketoglutamicum''" <small>Stackebrandt and Woese 1981</small> <!-- Brevibacterium lactofermentum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> * ''B. limosum'' <small>Pei et al. 2022</small> * ''B. linens'' <small>(Wolff 1910) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)</small> <!-- Brevibacterium lipolyticum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> <!-- Brevibacterium liquefaciens was reclassified as Glutamicibacter nicotianae. --> * ''B. luteolum'' <small>corrig. Wauters et al. 2003</small> <!-- Brevibacterium lutescens is a misspelling of Brevibacterium luteolum. --> <!-- Brevibacterium luteum was reclassified as Curtobacterium luteum. --> <!-- Brevibacterium lyticum was reclassified as Cellulosimicrobium cellulans. --> <!-- Brevibacterium marinopiscosum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> * ''B. marinum'' <small>Lee 2008</small> <!-- Brevibacterium massiliense was reclassified as Brevibacterium ravenspurgense. --> * ''B. mcbrellneri'' <small>McBride et al. 1994</small> * "''B. metallicus''" <small>Roman-Ponce et al. 2015</small> * "''B. methylicum''" <small>Nesvera et al. 1991</small> * ''B. oceani'' <small>Bhadra et al. 2008</small> * ''B. otitidis'' <small>Pascual et al. 1996</small> <!-- Brevibacterium oxydans was reclassified as Microbacterium oxydans. --> * ''B. paucivorans'' <small>Wauters et al. 2001</small> * ''B. permense'' <small>Gavrish et al. 2005</small> * ''B. picturae'' <small>Heyrman et al. 2004</small> <!-- Brevibacterium pigmenatum is a misspelling of Brevibacterium pigmentatum. --> * "''B. pigmentatum''" <small>Pei et al. 2021</small> * ''B. pityocampae'' <small>Kati et al. 2010</small> * ''B. profundi'' <small>Pei et al. 2020</small> <!-- Brevibacterium protophormiae was reclassified as Glutamicibacter protophormiae. --> <!-- Brevibacterium pusillum was reclassified as Curtobacterium pusillum. --> <!-- Brevibacterium quale was not included in the Approved Lists. --> * ''B. ravenspurgense'' <small>Mages et al. 2009</small> * "''B. renqingii''" <small>Yan et al. 2021</small> * ''B. rongguiense'' <small>Deng et al. 2020</small> <!-- Brevibacterium saccharolyticum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> * ''B. salitolerans'' <small>Guan et al. 2010</small> * ''B. samyangense'' <small>Lee 2006</small> * ''B. sandarakinum'' <small>Kämpfer et al. 2010</small> * ''B. sanguinis'' <small>Wauters et al. 2004</small> <!-- Brevibacterium saperdae was reclassified as Microbacterium saperdae. --> * ''B. sediminis'' <small>Chen et al. 2016</small> * ''B. senegalense'' <small>Kokcha et al. 2013</small> * ''B. siliguriense'' <small>Kumar et al. 2013</small> <!-- Brevibacterium stationis was reclassified as Corynebacterium stationis. --> <!-- Brevibacterium sterolicum was not included in the Approved Lists. --> <!-- Brevibacterium testaceum was reclassified as Microbacterium testaceum. --> <!-- Brevibacterium vitaeruminis was reclassified as Corynebacterium vitaeruminis. --> <!-- Brevibacterium vitarumen is a misspelling of Brevibacterium vitaeruminis, which was reclassified as Corynebacterium vitaeruminis. --> * ''B. yomogidense'' <small>Tonouchi et al. 2013</small> {{div col end}}
==Further reading== Mimura, Haruo (September 2014). "Growth Enhancement of the Halotolerant "Brevibacterium" sp JCM 6894 by Methionine Externally Added to a Chemically Defined Medium". Biocontrol Science 19 (3): 151–155.
{{cite journal|last1=Shabbiri|first1=Khadija|last2=Botting|first2=Catherine H.|last3=Adnan|first3=Ahmad|last4=Fuszard|first4=Matthew|last5=Naseem|first5=Shahid|last6=Ahmed|first6=Safeer|last7=Shujaat|first7=Shahida|last8=Syed|first8=Quratulain|last9=Ahmad|first9=Waqar|title=An Investigation into Membrane Bound Redox Carriers Involved in Energy Transduction Mechanism in ''Brevibacterium linens'' DSM 20158 with Unsequenced Genome|journal=Journal of Membrane Biology|date=April 2014|volume=247|issue=4|pages=345–355|doi=10.1007/s00232-014-9641-4|pmid=24573306|s2cid=251413}}
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