| Entry | T00810 |
| Org code | afr |
| Name | Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270 |
| Category | Type strain |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 243159 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Acidithiobacillia; Acidithiobacillales; Acidithiobacillaceae; Acidithiobacillus; Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans |
| 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.
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| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP001219) |
| Statistics | 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 |
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270