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Complete Genome Sequence of Desulfurococcus fermentans,a Hyperthermophilic Cellulolytic Crenarchaeon Isolated from a Freshwater Hot Spring in Kamchatka,Russia |
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| Authors: | Dwi Susanti Eric F Johnson Jason R Rodriguez Iain Anderson Anna A Perevalova Nikos Kyrpides Susan Lucas James Han Alla Lapidus Jan-Fang Cheng Lynne Goodwin Sam Pitluck Konstantinos Mavrommatis Lin Peters Miriam L Land Loren Hauser Venkat Gopalan Patricia P Chan Todd M Lowe Haruyuki Atomi Elizaveta A Bonch-Osmolovskaya Tanja Woyke Biswarup Mukhopadhyay |
| Abstract: | Desulfurococcus fermentans is the first known cellulolytic archaeon. This hyperthermophilic and strictly anaerobic crenarchaeon produces hydrogen from fermentation of various carbohydrates and peptides without inhibition by accumulating hydrogen. The complete genome sequence reported here suggested that D. fermentans employs membrane-bound hydrogenases and novel glycohydrolases for hydrogen production from cellulose. |
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