ATCC® Number:30984™
Organism: Mastigamoeba balamuthi (Chavez et al.) Simpson et al.
Designations: Bray's ameba
Isolation: village well, Gambia, 1975
Depositors: W Balamuth
History: ATCC<<--W Balamuth<<--R.S. Bray
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 2154: LYI Entamoeba mediumTemperature: 35.0°C Duration: axenic; anaerobic
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Type Strain: yes
Comments: Metabolites [23933]
Cross References: Nucleotide (GenBank) : AF140034 histone H4 mRNA, complete coding sequenceNucleotide (GenBank) : AF205070 enolase mRNA, complete coding sequenceNucleotide (GenBank) : AF140033 histone H3 mRNA, complete coding sequenceNucleotide (GenBank) : L23799 ribosomal RNA small subunit gene
References: 4725: Hinkle G, et al. The unusually long small subunit ribosomal RNA of Phreatamoeba balamuthi. Nucleic Acids Res. 22: 465-469, 1994. PubMed: 8127686 4811: Chavez LA, et al. A light and electron microscopical study of a new, polymorphic free- living amoeba, Phreatamoeba balamuthi n. g., n. sp.. J. Protozool. 33: 397-404, 1986. PubMed: 3746722 23933: Martin JB, et al. Metabolites of the free-living amoeba Phreatamoeba balamuthi analyzed by 13C- and 31P-NMR spectroscopy: Occurence of phosphoinositol diphosphates. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 42: 183-191, 1995. 48894: Hannaert V, et al. Enolase from Trypanosoma brucei, from the amitochondriate protist Mastigamoeba balamuthi, and from the chloroplast and cytosol of Euglena gracilis: pieces in the evolutionary puzzle of the eukaryotic glycolytic pathway. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17: 989-1000, 2000. PubMed: 10889212 54169: Muller M, et al. Presence of prokaryotic and eukaryotic species in all subgroups of the pp(i)-dependent group ii phosphofructokinase protein family. J. Bacteriol. 183: 6714-6716, 2001. PubMed: 11673446 56186: Simpson AG, et al. The organization of Mastigamoeba schizophrenia n. sp.: more evidence of ultrastructural idiosyncrasy and simplicity in pelobiont protists. Eur. J. Protistol. 33: 87-98, 1997. 70542: Sanchez LB, et al. Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolases in amitochondriate protists constitute a single protein subfamily with eubacterial relationships. Gene 295: 51-59, 2002. PubMed: 12242011