Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming species of bacteria. Its type strain is Co23 (= ATCC 700175 = DSM 11544). It grows by coupling the oxidation of lactate to the reductive dechlorination of 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate.[1]
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References
edit- ^ Sanford RA, Cole JR, Löffler FE, Tiedje JM (October 1996). "Characterization of Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans sp. nov., which grows by coupling the oxidation of lactate to the reductive dechlorination of 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 62 (10): 3800–8. doi:10.1128/AEM.62.10.3800-3808.1996. PMC 168189. PMID 8837437.
Further reading
edit- Villemur R, Lanthier M, Beaudet R, Lépine F (September 2006). "The Desulfitobacterium genus". FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 30 (5): 706–33. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2006.00029.x. PMID 16911041.
- Krasotkina, J. (2001). "Characterization of the B12- and Iron-Sulfur-containing Reductive Dehalogenase from Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276 (44): 40991–40997. doi:10.1074/jbc.M106217200. ISSN 0021-9258. PMID 11533062.
- Loffler, Frank E., Robert A. Sanford, and James M. Tiedje. "Initial Characterization of a Reductive Dehalogenase from Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans Co23." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62.10 (1996): 3809–3813.
External links
edit- LPSN
- "Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- Type strain of Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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