Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
| Desulfitobacterium metallireducens | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Firmicutes |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Clostridiales |
| Family: | Peptococcaceae |
| Genus: | Desulfitobacterium |
| Species: | D. metallireducens |
| Binomial name | |
| Desulfitobacterium metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002 | |
Desulfitobacterium metallireducens is an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Its type strain is 853-15A(T) (= ATCC BAA-636(T)). It was first isolated from a uranium-contaminated quifer sediment.[1]
References
- ↑ Finneran, K. T. (2002). "Desulfitobacterium metallireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52 (6): 1929–1935. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02121-0. ISSN 1466-5026.
Further reading
- Villemur R, Lanthier M, Beaudet R, Lépine F (September 2006). "The Desulfitobacterium genus". FEMS Microbiology Reviews 30 (5): 706–33. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2006.00029.x. PMID 16911041. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
- Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 4: Bacteria: Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria. Vol. 4. Springer, 2006.
- Kashefi, Kazem; Tor, Jason M.; Nevin, Kelly P.; Lovley, Derek R. (July 2001). "Reductive precipitation of gold by dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing Bacteria and Archaea". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67 (7): 3275–3279. doi:10.1128/AEM.67.7.3275-3279.2001.
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