KEGG   GENOME: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270
Entry
T00810            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
afr
Name
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270
Category
Type strain
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:243159
  Lineage
Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Acidithiobacillia; Acidithiobacillales; Acidithiobacillaceae; Acidithiobacillus
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
Data source
GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000021485.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 53
Keywords
Iron oxidation
Comment
Chemolithoautrophic, gamma-proteobacterium.
Uses energy from the oxidation of iron- and sulfur-containing minerals for growth.
Thrives at extremely low pH (pH 1-2) and fixes both carbon and nitrogen from the atmosphere.
Chromosome
Circular
  Sequence
GB:CP001219
  Length
2982397
Statistics
Number of nucleotides:       2982397
Number of protein genes:        3147
Number of RNA genes:              93
Created
2008
Reference
PMID:19077236
  Authors
Valdes J, Pedroso I, Quatrini R, Dodson RJ, Tettelin H, Blake R 2nd, Eisen JA, Holmes DS
  Title
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans metabolism: from genome sequence to industrial applications.
  Journal
BMC Genomics 9:597 (2008)
DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-9-597
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