Peptostreptococcaceae

The Peptostreptococcaceae are a family of Gram-positive bacteria in the class Clostridia.

Peptostreptococcaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Division:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Clostridiales
Family:
Peptostreptococcaceae

Garrity et al. 2001
Genera

Acetoanaerobium
Asaccharospora
Clostridioides
Criibacterium
Filifactor
Intestinibacter
Paeniclostridium
Paraclostridium
Peptoanaerobacter
Peptoclostridium
Peptostreptococcus
Proteocatella
Romboutsia
Sporacetigenium
Tepidibacter
Terrisporobacter

It appears to be over-represented in the guts of colorectal cancer patients.[1]

References
  1. Ahn, J.; Sinha, R.; Pei, Z.; Dominianni, C.; Wu, J.; Shi, J.; Goedert, J. J.; Hayes, R. B.; Yang, L. (18 December 2013). "Human Gut Microbiome and Risk for Colorectal Cancer". J Natl Cancer Inst. 105 (24): 1907–1911. doi:10.1093/jnci/djt300. PMC 3866154. PMID 24316595.
  • GPAC-id is an experimental JavaScript software for GPAC (Peptostreptococcus sp) identification.


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