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====Reclassification Reports====
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Thiomicrospira denitrificans ATCC 33889 has been reclassified as Sulfurimonas denitrificans DSM 1251 (ATCC 33889) on 11/7/2007.
Thiomicrospira denitrificans ATCC 33889 has been reclassified as Sulfurimonas denitrificans DSM 1251 (ATCC 33889)(Takai et al., 2006).
(Takai et al.)


==Description and Significance==
==Description and Significance==

Revision as of 23:04, 10 March 2008

A Microbial Biorealm page on the genus Sulfurimonas denitrificans

Thiomicrospira Denitrificans

Classification

Kingdom: Bacteria

Intermediate rank1: Proteobacteria

Intermediate Rank 2: Epsilonproteobacteria

Intermediate Rank 3: Campylobacterales

Intermediate Rank 4: Helicobacteraceae

Genus: Thiomicrospira

Species: denitrificans

Thiomicrospira, a group which originally included all marine, spiral-shaped sulfur oxidizing bacteria. Subsequent analyses of 16S rDNA sequences have revealed the polyphyletic nature of this group; members of Thiomicrospira are distributed among the gamma and epsilon subdivisions of the Proteobacteria. All Thiomicrospira species characterized to date are obligate chemolithoautotrophic bacteria that use sulfide, thiosulfate, and elemental sulfur as electron donors, and CO2 as their carbon source.

Reclassification Reports

Thiomicrospira denitrificans ATCC 33889 has been reclassified as Sulfurimonas denitrificans DSM 1251 (ATCC 33889)(Takai et al., 2006).

Description and Significance

Genome Structure

At present there is not an extensive body of research on the Thiomicrospira denitrificans genome structure.

Cell Structure and Metabolism

Ecology

References

1. TAKAI (K.), SUZUKI (M.), NAKAGAWA (S.), MIYAZAKI (M.), SUZUKI (Y.), INAGAKI (F.) and HORIKOSHI (K.): Sulfurimonas paralvinellae sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the Epsilonproteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete nest, reclassification of Thiomicrospira denitrificans as Sulfurimonas denitrificans comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1725-1733.