Geobacter metallireducens
| Geobacter metallireducens | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Deltaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Desulfuromonadales |
| Family: | Geobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Geobacter |
| Species: | G. metallireducens Lovley et al., 1993 |
Geobacter metallireducens is a gram-negative metal-reducing proteobacterium.[1] It is a strict anaerobe that oxidizes several short-chain fatty acids, alcohols, and monoaromatic compounds with Fe(III) as the sole electron acceptor.[2]
References
- ↑ Lovley, D. R.; Giovannoni, S. J.; White, D. C.; Champine, J. E.; Phillips, E. J. P.; Gorby, Y. A.; Goodwin, S. (1993). "Geobacter metallireducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a microorganism capable of coupling the complete oxidation of organic compounds to the reduction of iron and other metals". Archives of Microbiology 159 (4): 336–344. doi:10.1007/BF00290916. ISSN 0302-8933.
- ↑ Tremblay, Pier-Luc; Aklujkar, Muktak; Leang, Ching; Nevin, Kelly P.; Lovley, Derek (2012). "A genetic system for Geobacter metallireducens: role of the flagellin and pilin in the reduction of Fe(III) oxide". Environmental Microbiology Reports 4 (1): 82–88. doi:10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00305.x. ISSN 1758-2229.
Further reading
- Eickhoff, Merle; Birgel, Daniel; Talbot, Helen M.; Peckmann, Jörn; Kappler, Andreas (2013). "Bacteriohopanoid inventory of Geobacter sulfurreducens and Geobacter metallireducens". Organic Geochemistry 58: 107–114. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.02.013. ISSN 0146-6380.
- Schleinitz, K. M.; Schmeling, S.; Jehmlich, N.; von Bergen, M.; Harms, H.; Kleinsteuber, S.; Vogt, C.; Fuchs, G. (2009). "Phenol Degradation in the Strictly Anaerobic Iron-Reducing Bacterium Geobacter metallireducens GS-15". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75 (12): 3912–3919. doi:10.1128/AEM.01525-08. ISSN 0099-2240.
- Childers SE, Ciufo S, Lovley DR (April 2002). "Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis". Nature 416 (6882): 767–9. doi:10.1038/416767a. PMID 11961561. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
- Aklujkar, Muktak; Krushkal, Julia; DiBartolo, Genevieve; Lapidus, Alla; Land, Miriam L; Lovley, Derek R (2009). "The genome sequence of Geobacter metallireducens: features of metabolism, physiology and regulation common and dissimilar to Geobacter sulfurreducens". BMC Microbiology 9 (1): 109. doi:10.1186/1471-2180-9-109. ISSN 1471-2180.
- Zhang, Tian; Tremblay, Pier-Luc; Chaurasia, Akhilesh K.; Smith, Jessica A.; Bain, Timothy S.; Lovley, Derek R. (22 May 2014). "Identification of genes specifically required for the anaerobic metabolism of benzene in Geobacter metallireducens". Frontiers in Microbiology 5: 245. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00245. Retrieved 10 November 2014.