Genome analyses of the carboxydotrophic sulfate-reducers Desulfotomaculum nigrificans and Desulfotomaculum carboxydivorans and reclassification of Desulfotomaculum caboxydivorans as a later synonym of Desulfotomaculum nigrificans
- Wageningen Univ. (Netherlands). Lab. of Microbiology
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow (Russian Federation). Wingradsky Inst. of Microbiology
- Univ. of Minho, Braga (Portugal). Centre of Biological Engineering
- Wageningen Univ. (Netherlands). Lab. of Microbiology; Univ. of Minho, Braga (Portugal). Centre of Biological Engineering
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras (Portugal). Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica
- Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Inst. for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics. Dept. of Aquatic microbiology
- Bremen Inst. for Materials Testing, Bremen (Germany). Dept. of Microbiology
- Wageningen Univ. (Netherlands). Lab. of Systems and Synthetic Biology
- USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Bioscience Division
- St. Petersburg State Univ. (Russian Federation). Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics; St. Petersburg Academic Univ. (Russian Federation). Algorithmic Biology Lab.
- USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Bioscience Division
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig (Germany)
- HZI – Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig (Germany)
Desulfotomaculum nigrificans and D. carboxydivorans are moderately thermophilic members of the polyphyletic spore-forming genus Desulfotomaculum in the family Peptococcaceae. They are phylogenetically very closely related and belong to ‘subgroup a’ of the Desulfotomaculum cluster 1. D. nigrificans and D. carboxydivorans have a similar growth substrate spectrum; they can grow with glucose and fructose as electron donors in the presence of sulfate. Additionally, both species are able to ferment fructose, although fermentation of glucose is only reported for D. carboxydivorans. D. nigrificans is able to grow with 20% carbon monoxide (CO) coupled to sulfate reduction, while D. carboxydivorans can grow at 100% CO with and without sulfate. Hydrogen is produced during growth with CO by D. carboxydivorans. Here we present a summary of the features of D. nigrificans and D. carboxydivorans together with the description of the complete genome sequencing and annotation of both strains. Moreover, we compared the genomes of both strains to reveal their differences. This comparison led us to p
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1628683
- Journal Information:
- Standards in Genomic Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 3; ISSN 1944-3277
- Publisher:
- BioMed CentralCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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