Sphingomonas paucimobilis

Sphingomonas paucimobilis is a strictly aerobic Gram-negative bacterium that has a single polar flagellum with slow motility.^[1][2] The cell size is around 0.7 x 1.4 μm.^[3] It is usually found in soil. As with the other members of the genus, its biochemistry is remarkable in possession of ubiquinone 10 as its major respiratory quinone, and of glycosphingolipids instead of lipopolysaccharides in its cell envelope.^[4] It has been implicated in various types of clinical infections.^[2][5][6]

Sphingomonas paucimobilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Sphingomonadales
Family:	Sphingomonadaceae
Genus:	Sphingomonas
Species:	S. paucimobilis
Binomial name
Sphingomonas paucimobilis (Holmes et al. 1977) Yabuuchi et al. 1990
Synonyms
Pseudomonas paucimobilis Holmes et al. 1977

Isolated from a blood culture from a leukaemic patient with pyrexia.

S. paucimobilis is able to degrade lignin-related biphenyl chemical compounds.^[7]