the Arthrobacters

Over the years, the Brenchley lab has isolated numerous strains of a genera of bacteria called Arthrobacter.

The Arthrobacter have a distinctive life cycle of rod:coccus. Details about it can be found here. The Arthrobacter from our lab have had interesting cold-active enzymes to study. The publications listed below describe the work that's been done on them!

Coker, J., P. Sheridan, J. Loveland-Curtze, K. Gutshall, A. Auman, and J. Brenchley. 2003. Biochemical characterization of a ß-galactosidase with a low temperature optimum obtained from an Antarctic Arthrobacter isolate. J. Bacteriol. 185:5473-5482.

Loveland-Curtze, J., P. P. Sheridan, K. R. Gutshall and J. E. Brenchley. 1999. Biochemical and phylogenetic analyses of psychrophilic isolates belonging to the Arthrobacter subgroup and description of Arthrobacter psychrolactophilus, sp. nov. Arch. Microbiol. 171: 355-363.

de Prada, P. and J. Brenchley. 1997. Purification and characterization of two extracellular alkaline phosphatases from a psychrophilic Arthrobacter isolate. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:2928-2931.

Gutshall, K., K. Wang, and J. Brenchley. 1997. A novel Arthrobacter ß-galactosidase with homology to eucaryotic ß-galactosidases. J. Bacteriol. 179:3064-3067.

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