Open AccessPhenotypic and genotypic differences between certain strains of Clostridium acetobutylicum
Author(s) -
Wilkinson S.R.,
Young M.,
Goodacre R.,
Morris J.G.,
Farrow J.A.E.,
Collins M.D.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1995.tb07358.x
Subject(s) - genotype , phenotype , clostridium acetobutylicum , biology , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , biochemistry , butanol , ethanol
It has become evident that several of the strains of Clostridium acetobutylicum that have been employed in physiological studies of the acetone‐butanol fermentation, are heterogeneous. Studies of the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of several of these strains (involving inter alia both pyrolysis mass spectrometry and 16S rRNA sequence determinations) demonstrated that the type strain obtained from ATCC was not identical with that supplied by NCIMB, and that NCIMB 8052T is in fact Clostridium beijerinckii . We therefore suggest that the name Clostridium acetobutylicum should be restricted to those strains that are genetically closely related to ATCC 824T (which include strains DSM 792 and DSM 1731 but not strain P262).