Deferribacter desulfuricans

Deferribacter desulfuricans
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Deferribacteres
Class: Deferribacteres
Order: Deferribacterales
Family: Deferribacteraceae
Genus: Deferribacter
Species: D. desulfuricans
Binomial name
Deferribacter desulfuricans
Takai et al. 2003

Deferribacter desulfuricans is a species of sulfur-, nitrate- and arsenate-reducing thermophile first isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. It is an anaerobic, heterotrophic thermophile with type strain SSM1T (=JCM 11476T =DSM 14783T).[1]

Genome structure

Deferribacter desulfuricans genome contains 2,23 Mbp with 2,184 protein coding genes.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Takai, K. (2003). "Deferribacter desulfuricans sp. nov., a novel sulfur-, nitrate- and arsenate-reducing thermophile isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (3): 839–846. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02479-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 12807210.
  2. ↑ Takaki, Y.; Shimamura, S.; Nakagawa, S.; Fukuhara, Y.; Horikawa, H.; Ankai, A.; Harada, T.; Hosoyama, A.; et al. (Jun 2010). "Bacterial lifestyle in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney revealed by the genome sequence of the thermophilic bacterium Deferribacter desulfuricans SSM1". DNA Res. 17 (3): 123–37. doi:10.1093/dnares/dsq005. PMC 2885270. PMID 20189949.

Further reading

  • Martin Dworkin; Stanley Falkow (28 September 2006). The Prokaryotes: Vol. 6: Proteobacteria: Gamma Subclass. Springer. pp. 875–. ISBN 978-0-387-25496-8.
  • Tulasi Satyanarayana; Jennifer Littlechild; Yutaka Kawarabayasi (25 March 2013). Thermophilic Microbes in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology: Biotechnology of Thermophiles. Springer. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-94-007-5899-5.
  • Microbial Diversity: Current Perspectives and Potential Applications. I. K. International Pvt Ltd. 1 January 2005. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-81-88237-43-2.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.