| Entry | T00334 |
| Org code | rfr |
| Name | Rhodoferax ferrireducens T118 (DSM 15236) |
| Category | Type strain |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:338969 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Betaproteobacteria; Burkholderiales; Comamonadaceae; Rhodoferax; Rhodoferax ferrireducens |
| Org group | Bacteria; Betaproteobacteria; Burkholderiales |
| 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_000013605.1 Complete Genome) |
| Original db | JGI |
| Comment | Metabolically versatile, Fe(III)-reducing, facultative anaerobic microorganism.
Converts sugars to electricity, oxidizing the sugars to carbon dioxide with quantitative electron transfer to graphite electrodes in microbial fuel cells.
Isolated from subsurface sediments in Oyster Bay, VA. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP000267) |
| Plasmid | plasmid1; Circular (GB: CP000268) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 4418
Number of RNA genes: 60 |
| Created | 2006 |
| Reference | PMID: 19772637 |
| Authors | Risso C, Sun J, Zhuang K, Mahadevan R, DeBoy R, Ismail W, Shrivastava S, Huot H, Kothari S, Daugherty S, et al. |
| Title | Genome-scale comparison and constraint-based metabolic reconstruction of the facultative anaerobic Fe(III)-reducer Rhodoferax ferrireducens. |
| Journal | BMC Genomics 10:447 (2009)
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-447 |
