Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans

Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Clostridiales
Family:	Peptococcaceae
Genus:	Desulfitobacterium
Species:	D. chlororespirans
Binomial name
Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans Sanford et al. 2001

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]

References

1. 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

• 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

• LPSN
• "Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Type strain of Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase