Acetobacterium carbinolicum

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| name = Acetobacterium carbinolicum

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Bacillota

| classis = Clostridia

| ordo = Clostridiales

| familia = Eubacteriaceae

| genus = Acetobacterium

| species = A. carbinolicum

| binomial = Acetobacterium carbinolicum

| binomial_authority = Eichler and Schink 1985 emend. Paarup et al. 2006 {{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Acetobacterium|website=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/acetobacterium}}

| type_strain =WoProp 1 = DSM 2925

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Acetobacterium carbinolicum is a homoacetogenic, strictly anaerobic bacterium that oxidises primary aliphatic alcohols.{{cite journal|last1=Eichler|first1=Barbara|last2=Schink|first2=Bernhard|title=Oxidation of primary aliphatic alcohols by Acetobacterium carbinolicum sp. nov., a homoacetogenic anaerobe|journal=Archives of Microbiology|volume=140|issue=2–3|year=1984|pages=147–152|issn=0302-8933|doi=10.1007/BF00454917|s2cid=25428511|url=https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/123456789/7398/1/Oxidation_of_primary_aliphatic_1984.pdf}}

These Gram-positive, non-spore-forming and rod-shaped bacteria grow at optimal temperatures of about 30 °C, but some subspecies are also psychrotolerant, being able to grow at a minimum temperature of 2 °C, as the microorganisms belonging to the subspecies A. carbinolicum kysingense, which have been isolated from fine sand and mud sedimented in a brackish fjord in Jutland, Denmark, where concentrations of sodium chloride (NaCl) in water are up to 4.3%.{{Cite journal| last1=Paarup| first1=Maiken| last2=Friedrich| first2=Michael W.| last3=Tindall| first3=Brian J.| last4=Finster| first4=Kai| title=Characterization of the psychrotolerant acetogen strain SyrA5 and the emended description of the species Acetobacterium carbinolicum| journal= Antonie van Leeuwenhoek| volume=89| issue=1| pages=55–69| date=January 2006| doi=10.1007/s10482-005-9009-y| pmid=16344912| s2cid=10587478}}