Clostridium carboxidivorans
Clostridium carboxidivorans is a Gram-positive anaerobic, spore-forming and motile bacterium from the genus Clostridium which has been isolated from an agricultural lagoon in Oklahoma in the United States.[1][3][4][5][6]
| Clostridium carboxidivorans | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Lachnospiraceae |
| Genus: | Lachnoclostridium |
| Species: | C. carboxidivorans |
| Binomial name | |
| Clostridium carboxidivorans Liou et al. 2005[1] | |
| Type strain | |
| ATCC BAA-624, DSM 15243, P7[2] | |
Clostridium 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
- Parte, A.C. "Clostridium". LPSN.
- "Clostridium carboxidivorans Taxon Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017.
- "Clostridium carboxidivorans". www.uniprot.org.
- 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.
- "Details: DSM-15243". www.dsmz.de.
- 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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