''Desulfococcus oleovorans'' is a bacterium from the genus ''
Desulfococcus
''Desulfococcus'' is a Gram-negative, anaerobic and motile bacteria genus from the family of Desulfococcaceae.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and Nation ...
'' which has been isolated from mud from an oilfield near
Hamburg
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Germany
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Strain Hxd3
''Desulfococcus oleovorans'' dtrain Hxd3 was isolated from the saline water phase of an oil-water separator from a northern German oil field.[Aeckersberg, F., F. Bak, and F. Widdel. 1991. Anaerobic oxidation of saturated hydrocarbons to CO2 by a new type of sulfate-reducing bacterium. Arch. Microbiol. 156:5-14.][Aeckersberg, F., F. A. Rainey, and F. Widdel. 1998. Growth, natural relationships, cellular fatty acids and metabolic adaptation of sulfate-reducing bacteria that utilize long-chain alkanes under anoxic conditions. Arch. Microbiol. 170:361-369.] Hxd3 is a delta-proteobacterium capable of utilizing C12-C20 alkanes as growth substrates.[So, C. M., C. D. Phelps, and L. Y. Young. 2003. Anaerobic transformation of alkanes to fatty acids by a sulfate-reducing bacterium, strain Hxd3. Appl Environ Microbiol 69:3892-900.] Hxd3 is the ''only'' pure culture that is known to carboxylate aliphatic hydrocarbons.
The genome of ''Desulfococcus oleovorans'' has been completely sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute
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. Sequencing is paid for by a Department of Energy grant to Boris Wawrik et al. at Rutgers University
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See also
* List of bacterial orders
This article lists the orders of the Bacteria. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
and the phylogeny is based on 16 ...
* List of bacteria genera
This article lists the genera of the bacteria
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References
External links
More information about the genome of strain Hxd3 can be found at : https://web.archive.org/web/20110721130135/http://www.meta-genome.net/Hxd3/
Further reading
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Desulfobacterales
Bacteria described in 1991
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