| Species: | Clostridium acetobutylicum
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| Species code: | CLOAB
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| Type: | Eubacteria
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| Taxonomy: | Bacteria; Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Clostridiaceae; Clostridium (TaxID: 1488)
[NEWT /
NCBI]
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| Strain(s): | ATCC 824 / DSM 792 / VKM B-1787
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| Genome: | circular, 3.94 Mb; 1 plasmid of 192 Kb
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| Reference(s): |
MEDLINE=21359325
[NCBI, ExPASy, Israel, Japan]; PubMed=11466286;
Noelling J., Breton G., Omelchenko M.V., Makarova K.S., Zeng Q.,
Gibson R., Lee H.M., Dubois J., Qiu D., Hitti J., Wolf Y.I.,
Tatusov R.L., Sabathe F., Doucette-Stamm L., Soucaille P., Daly M.J.,
Bennett G.N., Koonin E.V., Smith D.R.;
"Genome sequence and comparative analysis of the solvent-producing
bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum.";
J. Bacteriol. 183:4823-4838(2001).
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| Genome official sequence WWW site(s): |
http://www.genomecorp.com/programs/sequence_data_clost.shtml
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| Other WWW site(s): |
GIB (DDBJ)
TIGR CMR
EBI GeneQuiz
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| Description: | Gram-positive, rod-shaped anaerobe bacterium. Isolates of
C.acetobutylicum were first identified between 1912 and 1914, and
these were used to develop an industrial starch-based acetone,
butanol and ethanol (ABE) fermentation process, to produce acetone
for gunpowder production, by Chaim Weizmann during World War I.
The type strain ATCC 824 was isolated in 1924 from garden soil in
Connecticut and is one of the best-studied clostridia. The plasmid
pSOL1 carries the genes involved in solvent formation.
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| Properties: | Number of membranes : 1
Presence of a flagella : Yes
Number of inteins : 1
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