Acetobacterium carbinolicum

Acetobacterium carbinolicum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacillota
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Clostridiales
Family:
Eubacteriaceae
Genus:
Acetobacterium
Species:
A. carbinolicum
Binomial name
Acetobacterium carbinolicum
Eichler and Schink 1985 emend. Paarup et al. 2006 [1]
Type strain
WoProp 1 = DSM 2925 [1]

Acetobacterium carbinolicum is a homoacetogenic, strictly anaerobic bacterium that oxidises primary aliphatic alcohols.[2]

These Gram-positive, non-spore-forming and rod-shaped bacteria grow at optimal temperatures of about 30 °C, but some subspecies are also psychrotolerant, being able to grow at a minimum temperature of 2 °C, as the microorganisms belonging to the subspecies A. carbinolicum kysingense, which have been isolated from fine sand and mud sedimented in a brackish fjord in Jutland, Denmark, where concentrations of sodium chloride (NaCl) in water are up to 4.3%.[3]

  1. ^ a b Parte, A.C. "Acetobacterium". LPSN.
  2. ^ Eichler, Barbara; Schink, Bernhard (1984). "Oxidation of primary aliphatic alcohols by Acetobacterium carbinolicum sp. nov., a homoacetogenic anaerobe" (PDF). Archives of Microbiology. 140 (2–3): 147–152. doi:10.1007/BF00454917. ISSN 0302-8933. S2CID 25428511.
  3. ^ Paarup, Maiken; Friedrich, Michael W.; Tindall, Brian J.; Finster, Kai (January 2006). "Characterization of the psychrotolerant acetogen strain SyrA5 and the emended description of the species Acetobacterium carbinolicum". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 89 (1): 55–69. doi:10.1007/s10482-005-9009-y. PMID 16344912. S2CID 10587478.