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ACETOBACTER ACETI
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Acetobacter |
| Species: | Acetobacter aceti |
| Description: | Acetobacter aceti is a Gram-negative bacterium that moves using its peritrichous flagella. Louis Pasteur proved it to be the cause of conversion of ethanol to acetic acid in 1864. It is a benign microorganism which is present everywhere in the environment, existing in alcoholic ecological niches which include flowers, fruits, and honey bees, as well as in water and soil. It lives wherever sugar fermentation occurs.It grows best in temperatures that range from 25 to 30 degrees Celsius and in pH that ranges from 5.4 to 6.3. For a long time it has been used in the fermentation industry to produce acetic acid from alcohol. |
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| Source: | Found in Acidic Mineral Environments. |
| Pathogenicity: | A halo- and organo-sensitive oligotrophic bacterium that degrades phenolic acids at low concentrations. |
| Genbank: | NZ_BAMU00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 3.55 |
| GC %: | 57.1 |
| Genes: | 3,234 |
| CDS Number: | 3,033 |
| Reference: | Acetobacter aceti Final Risk Assessment Biotechnology Program Under Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) US EPA. epa.gov. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2013. |
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