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Complete genome sequence of Desulfurococcus fermentans, a hyperthermophilic cellulolytic crenarchaeon isolated from a freshwater hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia

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J Bacteriol 194(20) , 5703-4 (Oct 2012)

Author(s):

Susanti, D., Johnson, E. F., Rodriguez, J. R., Anderson, I., Perevalova, A. A., Kyrpides, N., Lucas, S., Han, J., Lapidus, A., Cheng, J. F., Goodwin, L., Pitluck, S., Mavrommatis, K., Peters, L., Land, M. L., Hauser, L., Gopalan, V., Chan, P. P., Lowe, T. M., Atomi, H., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A., Woyke, T., Mukhopadhyay, B.

DOI:

10.1128/JB.01314-12

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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