Moorella perchloratireducens

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{{Taxobox

| name = Moorella perchloratireducens

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Bacillota

| classis = Clostridia

| ordo = Thermoanaerobacterales

| familia = Thermoanaerobacteraceae

| genus = Moorella

| species = M. perchloratireducens

| binomial = Moorella perchloratireducens

| binomial_authority = Balk et al. 2008{{cite web | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=411923|title=Moorella perchloratireducens|access-date=2019-02-10 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database}}

| type_strain = An10, ATCC BAA-1531, JCM 14829

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Moorella perchloratireducens is a thermophilic, anaerobic, Gram-positive and endospore-forming bacterium from the genus Moorella, which has been isolated from an underground gas storage tank in Russia. One of the main characteristics of this microorganism is that it is able to completely reduce chlorate and perchlorate to chloride and oxygen.{{cite journal|last1=Balk|first1=M.|last2=van Gelder|first2=T.|last3=Weelink|first3=S.A.|last4=Stams|first4=A.J.M.|title=(Per)chlorate Reduction by the Thermophilic Bacterium Moorella perchloratireducens sp. nov., Isolated from Underground Gas Storage|journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology|date=2008|volume=74|issue=2|pages=403–409|doi=10.1128/AEM.01743-07|pmid=17981952|pmc=2223267}}