• Emended descriptions of Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium beijerinckii, and descriptions of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum sp. (wikipedia.org)
  • Clostridium acetobutylicum has played an important role in biotechnology throughout the 20th century. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • Edited by Mark Hower, student of Rachel Larsen and Kit Pogliano, From MicrobeWiki, the student-edited microbiology resource, "Genome sequence and comparative analysis of the solvent-producing bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • Clostridium acetobutylicum, which is also known as the 'Weizmann organism,' was … This is mainly because solvents and organic acids could be used for production of fine chemicals such as butyl butyrate, butyl oleate, etc. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • Biological hydrogen production by Clostridium acetobutylicum in an unsaturated flow reactor. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • 13) Gimenez, J.A. The genome of Clostridium acetobutylicum is 3.94088 Mega-base pairs long with a 192-kb megaplasmid. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • Nitrogen-fixation genes and nitrogenase activity in Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium beijerinckii. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • George, and S.M. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD. Currently, there is a resurgence of interest in Clostridium acetobutylicum, the biocatalyst of the historical Weizmann process, to produce n-butanol for use both as a bulk chemical and as a renewable alternative transportation fuel. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • Clostridium acetobutylicum is an organism historically used for. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • In this study, production of butanol directly from hemicellulose was achieved simply through overexpression of an indigenous xylanase in Clostridium acetobutylicum. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • Clostridium acetobutylicum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, … It can only survive up to several hours in aerobic conditions, in which it will form endospores that can last for years even in aerobic conditions. (thecoffeeparlor.com)
  • In this process, acetone, butanol and ethanol are produced in a mixed fermentation (typically in a ratio of 3:6:1) by the solventogenic Clostridium species Clostridium acetobutylicum , Clostridium beijerinckii , Clostridium saccharobutylicum or Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum from sugar or starch feedstocks 7 . (nature.com)
  • pH control has been essential for butanol production with Clostridium acetobutylicum . (springeropen.com)
  • Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum is an indole and notably butanol-producing bacterium, with the type strain N1-4 (HMT) (= ATCC 27021T). (wikipedia.org)
  • Characterization of Clostridium ljungdahlii OTA1: a non-autotrophic hyper ethanol-producing strain. (ncsu.edu)
  • While 246 genome assemblies of its various strains are available currently, the diversity of the whole species has not … pecies has not been studied, and it has only been analyzed in part for a missing genome of the type strain. (fairdomhub.org)
  • Here, we sequenced and assembled the complete genome of the type strain Clostridium beijerinckii DSM 791T, composed of a circular chromosome and a circular megaplasmid, and used it for a comparison with other genomes to evaluate diversity and capture the evolution of the whole species. (fairdomhub.org)
  • Using a combinatorial pathway library approach, we first mined a historical industrial strain collection for superior enzymes that we used to engineer the autotrophic acetogen Clostridium autoethanogenum . (nature.com)
  • BioCentrum-DTU at the Technical University of Denmark sequenced the complete Saccharomyces castellii strain NRRL Y-12630 mitochondrial genome, and compared its transmission and organization to the mitochondrial genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (usda.gov)
  • They sequenced the Saccharomyces castellii strain NRRL Y-12630 genome at 3.9X coverage using whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing. (usda.gov)
  • A bacterial strain producing two antimicrobial peptides was isolated from a rhizosphere soil sample and identified as Bacillus subtilis based on both phenotypic and 16S rRNA gene sequence phylogenetic analysis. (springeropen.com)
  • Clostridium beijerinckii is a relatively widely studied, yet non-model, bacterium. (fairdomhub.org)
  • Sequence data for Clostridium autoethanogenum using three generations of sequencing technologies. (ncsu.edu)
  • The project brings comprehensive study of diversity in Clostridium beijerinckii, solvent-producing species with potential use in industrial biotechnology. (fairdomhub.org)
  • The fasta file contains amino acid sequences of genes forming the accessory genome of the Clostridium beijerinckii species. (fairdomhub.org)
  • We found that strains WB53 and HUN142 were misidentified and did not belong to the Clostridium beijerinckii species. (fairdomhub.org)
  • Additionally, we filtered possibly misassembled genomes, and we used the remaining 237 high-quality genomes to define the pangenome of the whole species. (fairdomhub.org)
  • We used the core genome to reconstruct the phylogeny of the species and showed its great diversity, which complicates the identification of particular strains, yet hides possibilities to reveal hitherto unreported phenotypic features and processes utilizable in biotechnology. (fairdomhub.org)
  • Most surprisingly, one-third of pneumococcal genomes also possessed a cassette encoding a novel circular bacteriocin that we called pneumocyclicin, which shared a similar genetic organisation to well-characterised circular bacteriocin cassettes in other bacterial species. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The fasta file contains amino acid sequences of unique genes found in various Clostridium beijerinckii strains. (fairdomhub.org)
  • By its functional annotation, we showed that the core genome contains genes responsible for basic metabolism, while the accessory genome has genes affecting final phenotype that may vary among different strains. (fairdomhub.org)
  • The metagenomic study provides the individual, the core rhizosphere and endophytic microbiomes activity in Arabidopsis thaliana using 454 sequencing (Roche) of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. (bio-fit.eu)
  • We found that all genomes maintained a blp bacteriocin cassette and we identified several novel blp cassettes and genes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This genome-scale model (iHN637) consisting of 637 genes, 785 reactions, and 698 metabolites captures all the major central metabolic and biosynthetic pathways, in particular pathways involved in carbon fixation and energy conservation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The COBRA approach relies on a genome-scale metabolic network reconstruction, which enumerates the metabolic transformations and the genes encoding them in a mathematical format. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We analysed a collection of 336 diverse pneumococcal genomes dating from 1916 onwards, identified bacteriocin cassettes, detailed their genetic composition and sequence diversity, and evaluated the data in the context of the pneumococcal population structure. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Click on a group of genomes below to view all sequences containing the chosen domain combination in that group of genomes. (cam.ac.uk)
  • One of the main obstacles preventing solventogenic clostridia from achieving higher yields in biofuel production is the toxicity of produced solvents. (nih.gov)
  • Here, we comprehensively characterized a newly isolated solventogenic and xylanolytic Clostridium species, which could produce butanol at a high ratio with elimination of ethanol and conversion of acetone to more value-added product, isopropanol. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Butanol can be produced anaerobically by several solventogenic bacteria belonging to the genus of Clostridium . (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although solventogenic Clostridium species have been used for large-scale ABE fermentation, butanol production is still considered less economical than ethanol fermentation using yeasts. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Butanol producing bacteria are called 'solventogenic' and belong to a group called Clostridium. (ukri.org)
  • The combination of MiSeq and de novo PacBio sequencing revealed a 6.38 Mbp chromosome containing 6254 genomic objects. (bvsalud.org)
  • Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum is an indole and notably butanol-producing bacterium, with the type strain N1-4 (HMT) (= ATCC 27021T). (wikipedia.org)
  • Research efforts including omics and genetic engineering approaches are therefore needed to enable the use of C. beijerinckii as a microbial cell factory for production of isopropanol. (bvsalud.org)
  • EcoCyc is a resource for analysis of microbial genomes at the level of individual genes. (nih.gov)
  • Microbial mutation breeding by altering the genomes shows great significance for biotechnology researches and applications (Tan et al. (springer.com)
  • We resequenced and reassembled the genome sequence of the strain and prepared novel genome and gene ontology annotation to provide the most accurate results. (nih.gov)
  • Additionally, using high-quality genome assembly and custom-made gene ontology annotation, we demonstrated that this settled terminology, widely used for the analysis of model organisms, could also be applied to non-model organisms and for research in the field of biofuels. (nih.gov)
  • genome annotation. (nih.gov)
  • Partner Roles: The programme is led by Prof Nigel P Minton (Nottingham), a world expert in the modification of Clostridium bacteria. (ukri.org)
  • During fermentation process, the high ratio of Clostridium and low ratio of Bacillus composition indicated that this symbiotic system was an effective and easily controlled cultivation model for ABE fermentation under microaerobic conditions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • RESULTS: The complete genome sequence and a first transcriptome analysis of C. beijerinckii DSM 6423 are described in this manuscript. (bvsalud.org)
  • The nucleotide sequence of IS 116 and the flanking sequences from pIJ702 have been determined. (microbiologyresearch.org)
  • With enhancement of buffering capacity and alcohol dehydrogenase activities, butanol and isopropanol titer by Clostridium sp. (biomedcentral.com)
  • organism from the annotated genome of the organism [1]. (nih.gov)
  • Isopropanol has recently received a specific interest and the best studied natural isopropanol producer is C. beijerinckii DSM 6423 (NRRL B-593). (bvsalud.org)
  • Click on a group of genomes below to view all sequences containing the chosen domain combination in that group of genomes. (cam.ac.uk)
  • function-based retrieval of DNA or protein sequences, for example to prepare datasets for studies of protein structure{function relationships. (nih.gov)
  • Groups of genomes may be slower than individual genomes. (cam.ac.uk)
  • However, owing to the higher per-base error rates than typical short-read sequencing, the application of long-read sequencing on microbiomes remains largely unexplored. (nih.gov)