Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans Sanford et al., 2001
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Clostridia
- order
- Clostridiales
- family
- Peptococcaceae
- genus
- Desulfitobacterium
- species
- Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans
Abstract
Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming species of bacteria. Its type strain is Co23 (= ATCC 700175 = DSM 11544). It grows by coupling the oxidation of lactate to the reductive dechlorination of 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate.