Clostridium paradoxum explained

Clostridium paradoxum is a moderately thermophilic anaerobic alkaliphile bacteria. It is motile with 2-6 peritrichous flagella and forms round to slightly oval terminal spores. Its type strain is JW-YL-7 (DSM 7308).^[1]

Further reading

• Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL, Janssen PH, Hippe H, Stackebrandt E . Clostridium paradoxum DSM 7308T contains multiple 16S rRNA genes with heterogeneous intervening sequences. . Microbiology . 1996 . 142 . 8. 2087–95 . 8760921 . 10.1099/13500872-142-8-2087. free .
• Cook, Gregory M., et al. "The Intracellular pH of Clostridium paradoxum, an Anaerobic, Alkaliphilic, and Thermophilic Bacterium." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62.12 (1996): 4576–4579.
• Ferguson. S. A.. Keis. S.. Cook. G. M.. Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of a Na+-Translocating F1Fo-ATPase from the Thermoalkaliphilic Bacterium Clostridium paradoxum. Journal of Bacteriology. 188. 14. 2006. 5045–5054. 0021-9193. 10.1128/JB.00128-06. 16816177. 1539966.

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Clostridium paradoxum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Li. Y.. Mandelco. L.. Wiegel. J.. Isolation and Characterization of a Moderately Thermophilic Anaerobic Alkaliphile, Clostridium paradoxum sp. nov.. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 43. 3. 1993. 450–460. 0020-7713. 10.1099/00207713-43-3-450. free.