Clostridium paradoxum

Clostridium paradoxum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Clostridiaceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	C. paradoxum
Binomial name
Clostridium paradoxum Li et al. 1993

Clostridium paradoxum is a moderately thermophilic anaerobic alkaliphile bacteria. It is motile with 2-6 peritrichous flagella and forms round to slightly oval terminal spores. Its type strain is JW-YL-7 (DSM 7308).^[1]

References

1. Li, Y.; Mandelco, L.; Wiegel, J. (1993). "Isolation and Characterization of a Moderately Thermophilic Anaerobic Alkaliphile, Clostridium paradoxum sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 43 (3): 450–460. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-3-450. ISSN 0020-7713.

Further reading

• Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL, Janssen PH, Hippe H, Stackebrandt E (1996). "Clostridium paradoxum DSM 7308T contains multiple 16S rRNA genes with heterogeneous intervening sequences". Microbiology. 142 (8): 2087–95. doi:10.1099/13500872-142-8-2087. PMID 8760921.
• Cook, Gregory M., et al. "The Intracellular pH of Clostridium paradoxum, an Anaerobic, Alkaliphilic, and Thermophilic Bacterium." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62.12 (1996): 4576–4579.
• Ferguson, S. A.; Keis, S.; Cook, G. M. (2006). "Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of a Na+-Translocating F1Fo-ATPase from the Thermoalkaliphilic Bacterium Clostridium paradoxum". Journal of Bacteriology. 188 (14): 5045–5054. doi:10.1128/JB.00128-06. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 1539966. PMID 16816177.

External links

• "Clostridium paradoxum". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• LPSN
• Type strain of Clostridium paradoxum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase