Desulfococcus oleovorans is a bacterium from the genus Desulfococcus which has been isolated from mud from an oilfield near Hamburg in Germany.[1][3]
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| Species: | D. oleovorans
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| Desulfococcus oleovorans Aeckersberg et al. 1991[1]
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| DSM 6200, Hxd3[2] | |
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Candidatus Desulfococcus oleovorans[1] | |
Strain Hxd3 edit
Desulfococcus oleovorans dtrain Hxd3 was isolated from the saline water phase of an oil-water separator from a northern German oil field.[4][5] Hxd3 is a delta-proteobacterium capable of utilizing C12-C20 alkanes as growth substrates.[4][5] Hxd3 activates alkanes via carboxylation at C3, with subsequent elimination of the terminal and subterminal carbons, yielding a fatty acid that is one carbon shorter than the parent alkane.[6] Hxd3 is the only pure culture that is known to carboxylate aliphatic hydrocarbons.
The genome of Desulfococcus oleovorans has been completely sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute. Sequencing is paid for by a Department of Energy grant to Boris Wawrik et al. at Rutgers University.
References edit
- ^ a b c "Desulfococcus oleovorans". ebi8.uniprot.org.
- ^ "Hxd3 Strain Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net.[dead link]
- ^ "Details: DSM-6200". www.dsmz.de.
- ^ a b Aeckersberg, F., F. Bak, and F. Widdel. 1991. Anaerobic oxidation of saturated hydrocarbons to CO2 by a new type of sulfate-reducing bacterium. Arch. Microbiol. 156:5-14.
- ^ a b Aeckersberg, F., F. A. Rainey, and F. Widdel. 1998. Growth, natural relationships, cellular fatty acids and metabolic adaptation of sulfate-reducing bacteria that utilize long-chain alkanes under anoxic conditions. Arch. Microbiol. 170:361-369.
- ^ So, C. M., C. D. Phelps, and L. Y. Young. 2003. Anaerobic transformation of alkanes to fatty acids by a sulfate-reducing bacterium, strain Hxd3. Appl Environ Microbiol 69:3892-900.
External links edit
More information about the genome of strain Hxd3 can be found at : https://web.archive.org/web/20110721130135/http://www.meta-genome.net/Hxd3/
Further reading edit
- Teske, Andreas; Reysenbach, Anna-Louise (2015). Hydrothermal microbial ecosystems. Frontiers Media SA. ISBN 9782889196821.
- Naik, Milind Mohan; Dubey, Santosh Kumar (2016). Marine Pollution and Microbial Remediation. Springer. ISBN 9789811010446.
- Ehrlich, Henry Lutz; Newman, Dianne K.; Kappler, Andreas (2015). Ehrlich's Geomicrobiology, Sixth Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 9781466592414.
- Neilson, Alasdair H.; Allard, Ann-Sofie (2012). Organic Chemicals in the Environment: Mechanisms of Degradation and Transformation, Second Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 9781439826386.
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