Journal
STANDARDS IN GENOMIC SCIENCES
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s40793-015-0028-7
Keywords
Thermoanaerobacter; Thermophilic; Anaerobic; Gram-positive; Chromate; Chromium; Reducing; Metal; Bioremediation
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- Fulbright Doctoral and Professional Scholarship [15111363]
- ENIGMA Scientific Focus Area Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, of the U. S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Thermoanaerobacter thermohydrosulfuricus BSB-33 is a thermophilic gram positive obligate anaerobe isolated from a hot spring in West Bengal, India. Unlike other T. thermohydrosulfuricus strains, BSB-33 is able to anaerobically reduce Fe(III) and Cr(VI) optimally at 60 degrees C. BSB-33 is the first Cr(VI) reducing T. thermohydrosulfuricus genome sequenced and of particular interest for bioremediation of environmental chromium contaminations. Here we discuss features of T. thermohydrosulfuricus BSB-33 and the unique genetic elements that may account for the peculiar metal reducing properties of this organism. The T. thermohydrosulfuricus BSB-33 genome comprises 2597606 bp encoding 2581 protein genes, 12 rRNA, 193 pseudogenes and has a G + C content of 34.20 %. Putative chromate reductases were identified by comparative analyses with other Thermoanaerobacter and chromate-reducing bacteria.
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