Clostridium autoethanogenum is an anaerobic bacterium that produces ethanol from carbon monoxide, in so-called syngas fermentation, being one of the few known microorganisms to do so. It is gram-positive, spore-forming, rod-like, motile, and was first isolated from rabbit feces. Its type strain is strain JA1-1.[1] Its genome has been sequenced [2] and the genes required for utilising carbon monoxide as a sole carbon and energy source have been determined.[3]
| Clostridium autoethanogenum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Clostridiaceae |
| Genus: | Clostridium |
| Species: | C. autoethanogenum
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| Binomial name | |
| Clostridium autoethanogenum Abrini et al. 1994
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Uses
editThis species is the key to the technology developed by Lanzatech to create ethanol from waste carbon monoxide gas of factory emissions.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Bruno-Barcena, J. M.; Chinn, M. S.; Grunden, A. M. (2013). "Genome Sequence of the Autotrophic Acetogen Clostridium autoethanogenum JA1-1 Strain DSM 10061, a Producer of Ethanol from Carbon Monoxide". Genome Announcements. 1 (4): e00628-13–e00628-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00628-13. ISSN 2169-8287. PMC 3744686. PMID 23950130.
- ^ Woods, Craig; Humphreys, Christopher M.; Tomi-Andrino, Claudio; Henstra, Anne M.; Köpke, Michael; Simpson, Sean D.; Winzer, Klaus; Minton, Nigel P. (2022-04-12). Nojiri, Hideaki (ed.). "Required Gene Set for Autotrophic Growth of Clostridium autoethanogenum". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88 (7): e02479–21. doi:10.1128/aem.02479-21. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 9004356. PMID 35285680.
Further reading
edit- Guo, Ying; Xu, Jingliang; Zhang, Yu; Xu, Huijuan; Yuan, Zhenhong; Li, Dong (2010). "Medium optimization for ethanol production with Clostridium autoethanogenum with carbon monoxide as sole carbon source". Bioresource Technology. 101 (22): 8784–8789. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2010.06.072. ISSN 0960-8524. PMID 20619639. *Cotter, Jacqueline L.; Chinn, Mari S.; Grunden, Amy M. (2008). "Ethanol and acetate production by Clostridium ljungdahlii and Clostridium autoethanogenum using resting cells". Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering. 32 (3): 369–380. doi:10.1007/s00449-008-0256-y. ISSN 1615-7591. PMID 18726618. S2CID 3041917.
- Liew, Fungmin Eric; Nogle, Robert (2022). "Carbon-negative production of acetone and isopropanol by gas fermentation at industrial pilot scale". Nature Biotechnology.
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