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Thermoanaerobacter kivui

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Thermoanaerobacter kivui
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Clostridia
Order: Thermoanaerobacterales
Family: Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus: Thermoanaerobacter
Species:
T. kivui
Binomial name
Thermoanaerobacter kivui
(Leigh and Wolfe 1983) Collins et al. 1994[1]

Thermoanaerobacter kivui (formerly Acetogenium kivui) is a thermophilic, anaerobic, nonspore-forming species of bacteria.[2]

T. kivui was originally isolated from Lake Kivu in Africa. The growth range for the organism is 50 to 72°C at pH 5.3-7.3, with optimal growth conditions at 66°C and pH 6.4. Although the organism stains Gram-negative, it shows a Gram-positive cell structure. The original genus Acetogenium was named because this organism principally produces acetic acid from substrates.[3] T. kivui was originally named Acetogenium kivui, which was the only species within a new genus. However, further 16S ribosomal RNA studies put this bacterium into genus Thermoanaerobacter and the previous genus was no longer necessary.[4]

T. kivui has been shown (with a technical readiness level of 4), to produce acetate with an input of H2 and C02. This process could be used as the initial stage in an alternative food source production system.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Parte, A.C. "Thermoanaerobacter". LPSN.
  2. ^ John A. Leigh and Ralph S. Wolfe. Acetogenium kivui gen. nov., sp. nov., a Thermophilic Acetogenic Bacterium. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. October 1983 vol. 33 no. 4 886 doi: 10.1099/00207713-33-4-886.
  3. ^ J. A. Leigh, F. Mayer and R. S. Wolfe. Acetogenium kivui, a new thermophilic hydrogen-oxidizing acetogenic bacterium. Archives of Microbiology. Volume 129, Number 4 (1981), 275-280, DOI: 10.1007/BF00414697.
  4. ^ M.D. Collins, P.A. Lawson, A. Willems, J.J. Cordoba, J. Fernadez-Garayzabal, P. Garcia, J. Cai, H. Hippie, J.A.E. Farrow. The Phylogeny of the Genus Clostridium: Proposal of Five New Genera and Eleven New Species Combinations. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. October 1994 vol. 44 no. 4 812-826 doi: 10.1099/00207713-44-4-812.
  5. ^ Lisa Marie Schmitz, Nicolai Kreitli, Lisa Obermaier, Nadine Weber, Michael Rychlik, Largus T. Angenent. Power-to-vitamins: producing folate (vitamin B9) from renewable electric power and CO2 with a microbial protein system. Trends in Biotechnology, 2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2024.06.014
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