Herpetosiphon giganteus is a species of bacteria in the genus Herpetosiphon known to produce 16 restriction enzymes.
H. giganteus has been studied for its gliding motility.Isolation of Herpetosiphon giganteus and ultrastructure analysis by electron microscopy. Nowroozi J., Mirzaii M. and Tabatabi P. Iranian biomedical journal, 1996
References
External links Restriction endonucleases from Herpetosiphon giganteus: an example of the evolution of DNA recognition specificity? P R Whitehead, D Jacobs, and N L Brown, Nucleic Acids Res. 1986 September 11; 14(17): 7031–7045. Type strain of Herpetosiphon giganteus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase