:Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
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{{Taxobox
| name = Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
| domain = Bacteria
| phylum = Bacillota
| classis = Clostridia
| ordo = Clostridiales
| familia = Peptococcaceae
| genus = Desulfitobacterium
| species = D. metallireducens
| binomial = Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
| binomial_authority = Finneran et al. 2002
}}
Desulfitobacterium metallireducens is an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Its type strain is 853-15A(T) (= ATCC BAA-636(T)). It was first isolated from a uranium-contaminated aquifer sediment.{{cite journal|last1=Finneran|first1=K. T.|title=Desulfitobacterium metallireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=52|issue=6|year=2002|pages=1929–1935|issn=1466-5026|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.02121-0}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Villemur R, Lanthier M, Beaudet R, Lépine F |title=The Desulfitobacterium genus |journal=FEMS Microbiology Reviews |volume=30 |issue=5 |pages=706–33 |date=September 2006 |pmid=16911041 |doi=10.1111/j.1574-6976.2006.00029.x|doi-access=free }}
- Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 4: Bacteria: Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria. Vol. 4. Springer, 2006.
- {{cite journal|last1=Kashefi|first1=Kazem|last2=Tor|first2=Jason M.|last3=Nevin|first3=Kelly P.|last4=Lovley|first4=Derek R.|title=Reductive precipitation of gold by dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing Bacteria and Archaea|journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology|date=July 2001|volume=67|issue=7|pages=3275–3279|doi=10.1128/AEM.67.7.3275-3279.2001|pmid=11425752|pmc=93011}}
External links
- [https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/desulfitobacterium LPSN]
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- [http://bacdive.dsmz.de/index.php?search=11771&submit=Search Type strain of Desulfitobacterium metallireducens at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase]
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Category:Bacteria described in 2002
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