Clostridium schirmacherense sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic, proteolytic, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from lake sediment of Schirmacher Oasis, Antartica

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 715-720

  Alam, Syed Imteyaz ^a   Dixit, Aparna ^a   Reddy, G S N ^b   Dube, S ^c   Palit, Meehir ^a   Shivaji, S ^c   Singh, Lokendra ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT   (India)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ARGININE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARDIOLIPIN; CYTOSINE; FATTY ACID; FORMIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANINE; HYDROGEN; ISOLEUCINE; ISOVALERIC ACID; LEUCINE; PEPTONE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PROPIONIC ACID; RAFFINOSE; RHAMNOSE; RIBITOL; RIBOSE; RNA 16S; SERINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL SIZE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SCHIRMACHERENSE; CLOSTRIDIUM SUBTERMINALE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA BINDING; DNA CONTENT; FERMENTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LAKE SEDIMENT; LIPID ANALYSIS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLD; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERMENTATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SUBTERMINALE;

EID: 33646170877     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63808-0     Document Type: Article

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