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ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERRIDURANS
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Acidithiobacillus |
| Species: | Acidithiobacillus ferridurans |
| Description: | Gram-negative, straight rods (1–2μm long) that do not form endospores. Motility is strain-dependent. Forms small, iron-stained colonies on acidic iron overlay medium and larger, dark-brown colonies on solid media grown in a hydrogen/oxygen atmosphere. Obligate chemolithoautotrophs capable of growth with ferrous iron, elemental sulfur, tetrathionate or hydrogen as electron donors.Facultative anaerobes, capable of coupling the oxidation of ferrous iron, reduced sulfur and hydrogen to the reduction of oxygen or the oxidation of hydrogen or reduced sulfur to the reduction of ferric iron. Mesophilic and extremely acidophilic. |
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| Source: | The type strain, isolated from drainage water at a uranium mine in Japan. |
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| Genbank: | AJ278719.1(16s rRNA) [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
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| Reference: | HEDRICH, S. and JOHNSON, D. B. 2013. Acidithiobacillus ferridurans sp. nov., an acidophilic iron-, sulfur- and hydrogen-metabolizing chemolithotrophic gammaproteobacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 63, 4018-4025. |
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