Geobacter lovleyi
| Geobacter lovleyi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Thermodesulfobacteriota |
| Class: | Desulfuromonadia |
| Order: | Geobacterales |
| Family: | Geobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Geobacter |
| Species: | G. lovleyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Geobacter lovleyi Sung et al. 2009
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| Synonyms | |
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Trichlorobacter lovleyi (Sung et al. 2009) Waite et al. 2020 | |
Geobacter lovleyi is a gram-negative metal-reducing and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating proteobacterium. It has potential as a bioremediation organism, and is actively researched as such.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Sung, Y.; Fletcher, K. E.; Ritalahti, K. M.; Apkarian, R. P.; Ramos-Hernandez, N.; Sanford, R. A.; Mesbah, N. M.; Loffler, F. E. (2006). "Geobacter lovleyi sp. nov. Strain SZ, a Novel Metal-Reducing and Tetrachloroethene-Dechlorinating Bacterium". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72 (4): 2775–2782. doi:10.1128/AEM.72.4.2775-2782.2006. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 1448980. PMID 16597982.
Further reading
[edit]- Amos, Benjamin K., et al. "Detection and quantification of Geobacter lovleyi strain SZ: implications for bioremediation at tetrachloroethene-and uranium-impacted sites." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73.21 (2007): 6898–6904.
- Wagner, Darlene D; Hug, Laura A; Hatt, Janet K; Spitzmiller, Melissa R; Padilla-Crespo, Elizabeth; Ritalahti, Kirsti M; Edwards, Elizabeth A; Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T; Löffler, Frank E (2012). "Genomic determinants of organohalide-respiration in Geobacter lovleyi, an unusual member of the Geobacteraceae". BMC Genomics. 13 (1): 200. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-200. ISSN 1471-2164. PMC 3403914. PMID 22616984.
External links
[edit]- "Geobacter lovleyi". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- LPSN
- The type strain of Geobacter lovleyi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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