Clostridium uliginosum is a mesophilic bacterium oxidizing acetate in syntrophic association with a hydrogenotrophic methanogenic bacterium. It is a spore-forming, gram-positive, rod-shaped organism, with type strain BST.[1] Its genome has been sequenced.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Clostridiaceae |
| Genus: | Clostridium |
| Species: | C. uliginosum
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| Binomial name | |
| Clostridium uliginosum Matthies et al. 2001
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References
edit- ^ Schnurer, A.; Schink, B.; Svensson, B. H. (1996). "Clostridium ultunense sp. nov., a Mesophilic Bacterium Oxidizing Acetate in Syntrophic Association with a Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenic Bacterium" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (4): 1145–1152. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-4-1145. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 8863449.
- ^ Manzoor, S.; Muller, B.; Niazi, A.; Bongcam-Rudloff, E.; Schnurer, A. (2013). "Draft Genome Sequence of Clostridium ultunense Strain Esp, a Syntrophic Acetate-Oxidizing Bacterium". Genome Announcements. 1 (2): e00107–13–e00107–13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00107-13. ISSN 2169-8287. PMC 3622961. PMID 23538905.
Further reading
edit- Schnürer, A (1997). "Enzyme activities in and energetics of acetate metabolism by the mesophilic syntrophically acetate-oxidizing anaerobe Clostridium ultunense". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 154 (2): 331–336. doi:10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00350-9. ISSN 0378-1097.
External links
edit- "Clostridium uliginosum" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- LPSN
- Type strain of Clostridium uliginosum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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