Comamonas testosteroni

Comamonas testosteroni
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Genus: Comamonas
Species:
C. testosteroni
Binomial name
Comamonas testosteroni
(Marcus and Talalay 1956) Tamaoka et al. 1987
Synonyms
  • Pseudomonas testosteroni Marcus and Talalay 1956
  • Pseudomonas dacunhae Arima
  • Pseudomonas cruciviae Tamaoka, Ha, and Komagata, 1987

Comamonas testosteroni is a Gram-negative environmental bacterium capable of utilizing testosterone as a carbon source, and degrading other sterols such as ergosterol and estrogens. Strain I2gfp has been used in bioaugmentation trials, in attempts to treat the industrial byproduct 3-chloroaniline. It was first classified as a human pathogen in 1987 according to the National Library of Medicine.

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