title: Recent approaches to the chemotaxonomy of the Actinobacillus-Haemophilus-Pasteurella group (family Pasteurellaceae).
abstract: Many members of the Actinobacillus-Haemophilus-Pasteurella group (family Pasteurellaceae) have been misclassified. This article reviews the chemotaxonomic characters that recently have been provided to improve the taxonomy of Pasteurellaceae. These include fatty acids of whole cells, of lipopolysaccharides and of single colonies, together with sugar contents of whole cells, of whole defatted cells, of lipopolysaccharides and of single colonies. This article also reviews taxonomy aided by distribution of proteins in whole cells and outer membranes, distribution of enzymes in outer membrane vesicles and in whole cells, bacteriolysis induced by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and hen eggwhite lysozyme and the distribution of respiratory quinones. Furthermore, an overview of characters obtained through studies on genetic transformation, restriction enzyme analysis, restriction fragment length polymorphism, DNA-DNA hybridization, DNA-rRNA hybridization, and 16S rRNA sequencing is given.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Biology, Dental Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Olsen
mesh_terms: D016976:Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000145:classification; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000145:classification; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000145:classification; D006190:Haemophilus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification; D015661:Pasteurellaceae / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000145:classification; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000145:classification
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; D012329:RNA, Bacterial