Entry
Org code
chy
Name
Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901
Category
Type strain
Annotation
yesShow organism
Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Bacillota; Clostridia; Thermoanaerobacterales; Thermoanaerobacteraceae; Carboxydothermus
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
BRITE hierarchy
Data source
Keywords
Acetogen, Carbon fixation, Dissimilatory sulfate reduction
Comment
Thermophilic bacterium.
Lives almost entirely on a diet of carbon monoxide (CO).
Converts water to hydrogen gas as part of its metabolism.
Isolated from a hot spring in Kunashir Island, Russia.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
2401520
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 2401520
Number of protein genes: 2620
Number of RNA genes: 63
Created
2005
Reference
Authors
Wu M, Ren Q, Durkin AS, Daugherty SC, Brinkac LM, Dodson RJ, Madupu R, Sullivan SA, Kolonay JF, Haft DH, et al.
Title
Life in hot carbon monoxide: the complete genome sequence of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901.
Journal