Clostridium carboxidivorans

Clostridium carboxidivorans is a Gram-positive anaerobic, spore-forming and motile bacterium from the genus of Clostridium which has been isolated from an agricultural lagoon in Oklahoma in the United States.[1][3][4][5][6]

Clostridium carboxidivorans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Division:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Family:
Clostridiaceae
Genus:
Clostridium
Species:
C. carboxidivorans
Binomial name
Clostridium carboxidivorans
Liou et al. 2005[1]
Type strain
ATCC BAA-624, DSM 15243, P7[2]

C. carboxidivorans is capable of fermenting carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide, and produce ethanol, butanol and hexanol as end-products.[6] C. carboxidivorans does this using the wood-ljungdahl pathway.

References
  1. Parte, A.C. "Clostridium". LPSN.
  2. "Clostridium carboxidivorans Taxon Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net.
  3. "Clostridium carboxidivorans". www.uniprot.org.
  4. Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (2008). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Clostridium carboxidivorans Liou et al. 2005". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.9596.
  5. "Details: DSM-15243". www.dsmz.de.
  6. Liou, JS; Balkwill, DL; Drake, GR; Tanner, RS (September 2005). "Clostridium carboxidivorans sp. nov., a solvent-producing clostridium isolated from an agricultural settling lagoon, and reclassification of the acetogen Clostridium scatologenes strain SL1 as Clostridium drakei sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (Pt 5): 2085–91. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63482-0. PMID 16166714.


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