| Serratia proteamaculans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacteriales |
| Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Serratia |
| Binomial name | |
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Serratia proteamaculans (Paine and Stansfield 1919) Grimont et al. 1978 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Pseudomonas proteamaculans Paine and Stansfield 1919 |
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Pseudomonas proteamaculans Paine and Stansfield 1919
Xantomonas proteamaculans (Paine and Stansfield 1919) Burkholder 1948
Erwinia proteamaculans (Paine and Stansfield 1919) Dye 1966
Serratia proteamaculans is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. S. proteamaculans HY-3 isolated from the digestive tract of a spider produces an extracellular protease named arazyme, with an estimated molecular mass of 51.5 kDa.