Clostridium pasteurianum

Clostridium pasteurianum
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
Class: Clostridia
Order: Clostridiales
Family: Clostridiaceae
Genus: Clostridium
Species: C. pasteurianum
Binomial name
Clostridium pasteurianum
Winogradsky, 1895[1]
Type strain
5, ATCC 6013, BCRC 10942, CCRC 10942, CCT 0203, CCUG 31328, CECT 377, DSM 525, DSMZ 525, E. McCoy 5, FIRDI 942, IMET 11346, IMG 1584 b, IZ 563, JCM 1108, JCM 1408, KCTC 1674, L.S. McClung 2300, LMAU C85, LMG 3285, LMG 5709, McClung 2000, McClung 2300, McClung L.S. 2300, McClung L.S., 2300, McCoy 5, McCoy E. 5, NCDO 1845, NCFB 1845, NCIB 9486, NCIMB 9486, VKM B-1774, W-5, Winogradsky W-5[2]
Synonyms

Clostridium pastorianus" (sic) Winogradsky 1902, "Bacillus pasteurianus" (Winogradsky 1895) Lehmann and Neumann 1907, "Bacillus pastorianus" (Winogradsky 1902) Lehmann and Neumann 1907 "Bacillus winogradsky" Matzuschita 1902, "Butyribacillus pasteurianus" (Winogradsky 1895) Orla-Jensen 1909[3]

Clostridium pasteurianum (previously known as Clostridium pastorianum) is a bacterium discovered in 1890 by the notable Russian microbiologist, Sergei Winogradsky. It has the ability to fix free nitrogen from the air,[4] and was notable as being the first free living (non-symbiotic) micro-organism discovered which could do so.[4] C. pasteurianum is a mesophile.[5]

Taxonomy

Initially named Clostridium pastorianum by Winogradsky, its name was later changed to the current spelling.[4]

Morphology

C. pasteurianum is a large, spore-forming bacillus. It is a soil bacterium, and an obligate anaerobe.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Taxonomy Browser (Clostridium pasteurianum)". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Taxon passport: Clostridium pasteurianum". StrainInfo. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Clostridium pasteurianum - Taxonomy Browser". StrainInfo. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Dworkin, Martin; Gutnick, David (March 2012). "Sergei Winogradsky: a founder of modern microbiology and the first microbial ecologist". FEMS Microbiology Reviews 36 (2): 373. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00299.x. PMID 22092289.
  5. ↑ "Clostridium pasteurianum: Organism Metadata". JGI Genomes Online Database. Retrieved 29 November 2015.


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