''Slackia isoflavoniconvertens'' is a bacterium from the genus of ''
Slackia
''Slackia'' is a genus of Actinomycetota, in the family Coriobacteriaceae. ''Slackia'' is named after the microbiologist Geoffrey Slack Geoffrey, Geoffroy, Geoff, etc., may refer to:
People
* Geoffrey (name), including a list of people with th ...
'' which has been isolated from faeces of a human from
Nuthetal
Nuthetal is a municipality in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany.
Geography
''Nuthetal'' is situated south-west of Berlin. The area was formed from a series of large moraines during the last ice age.
The municipality originat ...
in
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...
.
daidzein
Daidzein (7-hydroxy-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4H-chromen-4-one) is a naturally occurring compound found exclusively in soybeans and other legumes and structurally belongs to a class of compounds known as isoflavones. Daidzein and other isoflavones a ...
and genistein
Genistein (C15H10O5) is a naturally occurring compound that structurally belongs to a class of compounds known as isoflavones. It is described as an angiogenesis inhibitor and a phytoestrogen.
It was first isolated in 1899 from the dyer's bro ...
,[ two compounds in the class of ]isoflavone Isoflavones are substituted derivatives of isoflavone, a type of naturally occurring isoflavonoids, many of which act as phytoestrogens in mammals. Isoflavones are produced almost exclusively by the members of the bean family, Fabaceae (Leguminos ...
s.
References
Bacteria described in 2009
Actinomycetota
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