Complete genome sequence of Desulfurococcus fermentans, a hyperthermophilic cellulolytic crenarchaeon isolated from a freshwater hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia.
J Bacteriol, 2012/10;194(20):5703-4.
Susanti D[1], Johnson EF, Rodriguez JR, Anderson I, Perevalova AA, Kyrpides N, Lucas S, Han J, Lapidus A, Cheng JF, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Mavrommatis K, Peters L, Land ML, Hauser L, Gopalan V, Chan PP, Lowe TM, Atomi H, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Woyke T, Mukhopadhyay B
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Abstract
Desulfurococcus fermentans is the first known cellulolytic archaeon. This hyperthermophilic and strictly anaerobic crenarchaeon produces hydrogen from fermentation of various carbohydrates and peptides without inhibition by accumulating hydrogen. The complete genome sequence reported here suggested that D. fermentans employs membrane-bound hydrogenases and novel glycohydrolases for hydrogen production from cellulose.
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Anaerobiosis; Carbohydrate Metabolism; Cellulose; DNA, Archaeal; Desulfurococcaceae; Fermentation; Fresh Water; Genome, Archaeal; Hot Springs; Hydrogen; Molecular Sequence Data; Russia; Sequence Analysis, DNA
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