| Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans | |
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| Endospore of C. hydrogenoformans | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Thermoanaerobacterales |
| Family: | Thermoanaerobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Carboxydothermus |
| Species: | C. hydrogenoformans
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| Binomial name | |
| Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Svetlichny 1991
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Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans is an extremely thermophilic anaerobic Gram-positive bacterium that has the interesting property of producing hydrogen as a waste product while feeding on carbon monoxide and water. It also forms endospores.
It was isolated from a hot spring on the Russian volcanic island of Kunashir by Svetlichny et al. in 1991.[1] Its complete genome was sequenced in 2005 by a team of scientists of the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) [2]
According to TIGR evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen, "C. hydrogenoformans is one of the fastest-growing microbes that can convert water and carbon monoxide to hydrogen." The microbe owes this to the fact that it has at least five different forms of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.
- ^ Svetlichny, V.A.; Sokolova, T.G.; Gerhardt, M.; Ringpfeil, M.; Kostrikina, N.A.; Zavarzin, G.A. (1991). "Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans gen. nov., sp. nov., a CO-utilizing Thermophilic Anaerobic Bacterium from Hydrothermal Environments of Kunashir Island". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 14 (3): 254–260. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80377-2.
- ^ Wu, M.; Ren, Q.; Durkin, A. S.; Daugherty, S. C.; Brinkac, L. M.; Dodson, R. J.; Madupu, R.; Sullivan, S. A.; Kolonay, J. F.; Haft, W. C.; Nelson, L. J.; Tallon, K. M.; Jones, L. E.; Ulrich, J. M.; Gonzalez, I. B.; Zhulin, F. T.; Robb, J. A.; Eisen, J. A. (2005). "Life in Hot Carbon Monoxide: The Complete Genome Sequence of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901". PLOS Genetics. 1 (5): e65. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0010065. PMC 1287953. PMID 16311624.