''Desulfocapsa sulfexigens'' is a
mesophilic
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, anaerobic,
gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...
bacterium. It
disproportionates
In chemistry, disproportionation, sometimes called dismutation, is a redox reaction in which one compound of intermediate oxidation state converts to two compounds, one of higher and one of lower oxidation state. The reverse of disproportionatio ...
elemental
sulfur
Sulfur ( American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphur ( Commonwealth spelling) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms ...
and
thiosulfate
Thiosulfate ( IUPAC-recommended spelling; sometimes thiosulphate in British English) is an oxyanion of sulfur with the chemical formula . Thiosulfate also refers to the compounds containing this anion, which are the salts of thiosulfuric acid, ...
. SB164P1 is its type strain.
References
Further reading
*Finster, Kai W., et al. "Complete genome sequence of Desulfocapsa sulfexigens, a marine deltaproteobacterium specialized in disproportionating inorganic sulfur compounds." Standards in Genomic Sciences 8.1 (2013).
External links
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LPSNWORMS entryType strain of ''Desulfocapsa sulfexigens'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Desulfobacterales
Bacteria described in 1998
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