Bacillus selenitireducens is a bacterium first isolated from Mono Lake, California. It is notable for respiring oxyanions of selenium and arsenic.[1] It is spore-forming, rod-shaped and alkaliphile, its type strain being MLS10.
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This species has been recently transferred into the genus Salisediminibacterium.[2] The correct nomenclature is Salisediminibacterium selenitireducens.
References
edit- ^ Switzer Blum, Jodi; Burns Bindi, A.; Buzzelli, J.; Stolz, John F.; Oremland, R. S. (1998). "Bacillus arsenicoselenatis , sp. nov., and Bacillus selenitireducens , sp. nov.: two haloalkaliphiles from Mono Lake, California that respire oxyanions of selenium and arsenic". Archives of Microbiology. 171 (1): 19–30. doi:10.1007/s002030050673. ISSN 0302-8933. PMID 9871015. S2CID 38748064.
- ^ Gupta, Radhey S.; Patel, Sudip; Saini, Navneet; Chen, Shu (2020-11-01). "Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses: description of Robertmurraya kyonggiensis sp. nov. and proposal for an emended genus Bacillus limiting it only to the members of the Subtilis and Cereus clades of species". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5753–5798. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004475. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 33112222.
Further reading
edit- Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250–2251.
- Ljungdahl, Lars G. (2003). Biochemistry and physiology of anaerobic bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-95592-5.
- Berkeley, Roger, et al., eds. Applications and systematics of bacillus and relatives. Wiley. com, 2008.
- Afkar, Eman; Lisak, Joy; Saltikov, Chad; Basu, Partha; Oremland, Ronald S.; Stolz, John F. (2003). "The respiratory arsenate reductase from Bacillus selenitireducensstrain MLS10". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 226 (1): 107–112. doi:10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00609-8. ISSN 0378-1097. PMID 13129615.
External links
edit- "Bacillus selenitireducens". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- Type strain of Bacillus selenitireducens at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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