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Species code:	GEOLS
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Deltaproteobacteria; Desulfuromonadales; Geobacteraceae; Geobacter (TaxID: 398767) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Geobacter lovleyi (strain SZ) is a rod-shaped, motile, Gram-negative, anaerobic delta-proteobacterium isolated from noncontaminated creek sediment. It belongs to a distinct, dechlorinating clade within the Geobacter group and is able to derive energy from acetate oxidation coupled to tetrachloroethene (PCE)-to-cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) dechlorination (i.e., chlororespiration). Strain SZ is the first Geobacter isolate capable of reductively dechlorinating the priority pollutant PCE, and shares features characteristic for members of the family Geobacteraceae. For example, strain SZ uses acetate and hydrogen as electron donors and metabolically reduces a variety of electron acceptors, including oxidized metals, radionuclides (e.g., hexavalent uranium) and nitrate. Remarkably, strain SZ reduces hexavalent uranium and PCE simultaneously, suggesting that SZ-type organisms have desirable characteristics for mixed waste site bioremediation. Specific 16S rRNA gene-targeted PCR detected strain SZ-like amplicons at several chlorinated solvent sites and the uranium-contaminated Integrated Field-Scale Subsurface Research Challenge (IFC) site in Oak Ridge, TN (FRC site). Further, a strain SZ-like bacterium was detected in the bioaugmentation consortium KB-1, suggesting that members of the dechlorinating Geobacter clade play relevant roles in bioremediation. Geobacter lovleyi was named to recognize the contributions of Derek R. Lovley to our understanding of microbial metal and radionuclide reduction.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Human pathogen: No Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of GEOLS entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3644 (252 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3392 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP001089 (circular; 3,917,761 bp) (download entry) • Plasmid pGLOV01 EMBL accession number CP001090 (circular; 77,113 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):	[1] Lucas S., Copeland A., Lapidus A., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Bruce D., Goodwin L., Pitluck S., Chertkov O., Meincke L., Brettin T., Detter J.C., Han C., Tapia R., Kuske C.R., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Sung Y., Fletcher K.E., Ritalahti K.M., Loeffler F.E., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of chromosome of Geobacter lovleyi SZ."; Submitted (MAY-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. [2] Lucas S., Copeland A., Lapidus A., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Bruce D., Goodwin L., Pitluck S., Chertkov O., Meincke L., Brettin T., Detter J.C., Han C., Tapia R., Kuske C.R., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Sung Y., Fletcher K.E., Ritalahti K.M., Loeffler F.E., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of plasmid of Geobacter lovleyi SZ."; Submitted (MAY-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/geolo/geolo.home.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17423 Genome Atlas: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/gwBrowser/project.php?pid=17423 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Glov_SZ PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p17423_Geo_lovle  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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