Acetohalobium arabaticum

Acetohalobium arabaticum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Halanaerobiales
Family:	Halobacteroidaceae
Genus:	Acetohalobium
Species:	A. arabaticum
Binomial name
Acetohalobium arabaticum Zhilina & Zavarzin 1990

Acetohalobium arabaticum is the type species of the genus Acetohalobium. It is a prokaryote that can expand its genetic code from 20 to 21 amino acids (by including pyrrolysine) under different conditions of growth.^[1]

Strains

Strain Z-7288 (= DSM 5501 = ATCC 49924) is the type strain of the species.

See also

• Genetic code

References

1. Prat L, Heinemann IU, Aerni HR, Rinehart J, O'Donoghue P, Söll D (Dec 2012). "Carbon source-dependent expansion of the genetic code in bacteria". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109 (51): 21070–5. Bibcode:2012PNAS..10921070P. doi:10.1073/pnas.1218613110. PMC 3529041. PMID 23185002.

External links

• Complete genome sequence of Acetohalobium arabaticum type strain (Z-7288)
• Type strain of Acetohalobium arabaticum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase