Deferribacter desulfuricans

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]

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

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.

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