Clostridium carboxidivorans | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacillota |
Class: | Clostridia |
Order: | Eubacteriales |
Family: | Clostridiaceae |
Genus: | Clostridium |
Species: | C. carboxidivorans
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Binomial name | |
Clostridium carboxidivorans Liou et al. 2005[1]
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Type strain | |
ATCC BAA-624, DSM 15243, P7[2] |
Clostridium carboxidivorans is a Gram-positive anaerobic, spore-forming and motile bacterium from the genus Clostridium which has been isolated from an agricultural lagoon in Oklahoma in the United States.[1][3][4][5][6]
Clostridium carboxidivorans is capable of fermenting carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide, and produce ethanol, butanol and hexanol as end-products.[6] C. carboxidivorans does this using the wood-ljungdahl pathway.