Desulfosudis

Desulfosudis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class: Desulfobacteria
Order: Desulfobacterales
Family: Desulfosudaceae
Galushko and Kuever 2021
Genus: Desulfosudis
Galushko and Kuever 2021
Species:
D. oleivorans
Binomial name
Desulfosudis oleivorans
Galushko and Kuever 2021
Type strain
DSM 6200, Hxd3
Synonyms
  • "Desulfobacterium oleovorans" Aeckersberg, Bak & Widdel 1991
  • "Desulfococcus oleovorans" (Aeckersberg et al. 1991)

Desulfosudis oleivorans is a bacterium from the genus Desulfosudis which has been isolated from mud from an oilfield near Hamburg in Germany. It is the only species in the genus Desulfosudis and family Desulfosudaceae.

Strain Hxd3

Desulfosudis oleivorans strain Hxd3 was isolated from the saline water phase of an oil-water separator from a northern German oil field. Hxd3 is a delta-proteobacterium capable of utilizing C12-C20 alkanes as growth substrates. Hxd3 activates alkanes via carboxylation at C3, with subsequent elimination of the terminal and subterminal carbons, yielding a fatty acid that is one carbon shorter than the parent alkane. Hxd3 is the only pure culture that is known to carboxylate aliphatic hydrocarbons.

The genome of Desulfosudis oleivorans has been completely sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute. Sequencing is paid for by a Department of Energy grant to Boris Wawrik et al. at Rutgers University.

References

  1. ↑ Galushko, Alexander; Kuever, Jan (31 December 2020). Desulfosudis gen. nov (1 ed.). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01872.
  2. ↑ "StrainInfo Desulfosudis oleivorans". straininfo.dsmz.de. doi:10.60712/SI-ID48119.3. Retrieved 2025-12-02.
  3. ↑ "Desulfococcus oleovorans". ebi8.uniprot.org.
  4. ↑ "Details: DSM-6200". www.dsmz.de.
  5. ↑ genus/desulfosudis entry in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
  6. ↑ family/desulfosudaceae entry in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
  7. 1 2 Aeckersberg, F., F. Bak, and F. Widdel. 1991. Anaerobic oxidation of saturated hydrocarbons to CO2 by a new type of sulfate-reducing bacterium. Arch. Microbiol. 156:5-14.
  8. 1 2 Aeckersberg, F., F. A. Rainey, and F. Widdel. 1998. Growth, natural relationships, cellular fatty acids and metabolic adaptation of sulfate-reducing bacteria that utilize long-chain alkanes under anoxic conditions. Arch. Microbiol. 170:361-369.
  9. ↑ So, C. M., C. D. Phelps, and L. Y. Young. 2003. Anaerobic transformation of alkanes to fatty acids by a sulfate-reducing bacterium, strain Hxd3. Appl Environ Microbiol 69:3892-900.

More information about the genome of strain Hxd3 can be found at : https://web.archive.org/web/20110721130135/http://www.meta-genome.net/Hxd3/

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