Clostridium uliginosum explained

Clostridium uliginosum is a mesophilic bacterium oxidizing acetate in syntrophic association with a hydrogenotrophic methanogenic bacterium. It is a spore-forming, gram-positive, rod-shaped organism, with type strain BST.^[1] Its genome has been sequenced.^[2]

Further reading

• Schnürer. A. Enzyme activities in and energetics of acetate metabolism by the mesophilic syntrophically acetate-oxidizing anaerobe Clostridium ultunense. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 154. 2. 1997. 331–336. 0378-1097. 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00350-9.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Schnurer. A.. Schink. B.. Svensson. B. H.. Clostridium ultunense sp. nov., a Mesophilic Bacterium Oxidizing Acetate in Syntrophic Association with a Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenic Bacterium. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46. 4. 1996. 1145–1152. 0020-7713. 10.1099/00207713-46-4-1145. 8863449.
2. Manzoor. S.. Muller. B.. Niazi. A.. Bongcam-Rudloff. E.. Schnurer. A.. Draft Genome Sequence of Clostridium ultunense Strain Esp, a Syntrophic Acetate-Oxidizing Bacterium. Genome Announcements. 1. 2. 2013. e00107–13–e00107–13. 2169-8287. 10.1128/genomeA.00107-13. 23538905. 3622961.