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HAMAP: Alkaliphilus metalliredigens (strain QYMF) complete proteome
General information

Species:  Alkaliphilus metalliredigens (strain QYMF)
Species code: ALKMQ
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Clostridiaceae; Alkaliphilus (TaxID: 293826) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description: Alkaliphilus metalliredigens (strain QYMF) is s an alkaliphilic, moderately halophilic metal-reducing bacterium phylogenetically associated with the Firmicutes. A. metalliredigens was isolated from borax leachate ponds. Alkaliphilus metalliredigens can reduce Fe(III)-citrate, Fe(III)-EDTA, Co(III)-EDTA, or Cr(VI) as electron acceptors with yeast extract or lactate as electron donors. Growth during iron reduction occurs over the pH range of 7.5 to 11.0, a sodium chloride range of 0 to 80 g/l and a temperature range of 4 degrees Celsius to 45 degrees Celsius. Optimal growth conditions during iron reduction in the presence of borate (2 g/l) were observed at a pH of 9.6, a sodium chloride concentration of 20 g/l and a temperature of approximately 35 degrees Celsius. A. metalliredigens is a strict anaerobe that can tolerate up to 1.5% (w/v) borax (Na2B4O7), and the cells are straight rods that produce endospores. The microorganism appears to be a novel metal-reducing bacterium that is distantly related to other commonly studied iron-reducing microorganisms. At the present time (December 2007), the most closely related microorganisms are Alkaliphilus transvaalensis and Alkaliphilus crotonatoxidans.
Properties: Presence of flagella: Yes
Human pathogen: No
Interaction: No
Number of membranes: 1
Number of inteins:0
Statistics: Number of ALKMQ entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4467 (307 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 4160 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    QYMF
Genome structure:
Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000724 (circular; 4,929,566 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Chertkov O., Brettin T., Bruce D., Han C., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Ye Q., Zhou J., Fields M., Richardson P. ;
"Complete sequence of Alkaliphilus metalliredigens QYMF.";
Submitted (JUN-2007) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=13006
Genome Atlas: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/gwBrowser/project.php?pid=13006
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Amet_QYMF
PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p13006_Alk_metal
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