Title |
Clostridium sticklandii, a specialist in amino acid degradation:revisiting its metabolism through its genome sequence
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, October 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-11-555 |
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Authors |
Nuria Fonknechten, Sébastien Chaussonnerie, Sabine Tricot, Aurélie Lajus, Jan R Andreesen, Nadia Perchat, Eric Pelletier, Michel Gouyvenoux, Valérie Barbe, Marcel Salanoubat, Denis Le Paslier, Jean Weissenbach, Georges N Cohen, Annett Kreimeyer |
Abstract |
Clostridium sticklandii belongs to a cluster of non-pathogenic proteolytic clostridia which utilize amino acids as carbon and energy sources. Isolated by T.C. Stadtman in 1954, it has been generally regarded as a "gold mine" for novel biochemical reactions and is used as a model organism for studying metabolic aspects such as the Stickland reaction, coenzyme-B12- and selenium-dependent reactions of amino acids. With the goal of revisiting its carbon, nitrogen, and energy metabolism, and comparing studies with other clostridia, its genome has been sequenced and analyzed. |
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Chile | 1 | <1% |
Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
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Italy | 1 | <1% |
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Researcher | 41 | 23% |
Student > Master | 23 | 13% |
Student > Bachelor | 15 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 5% |
Other | 18 | 10% |
Unknown | 26 | 15% |
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Immunology and Microbiology | 21 | 12% |
Environmental Science | 10 | 6% |
Engineering | 10 | 6% |
Other | 19 | 11% |
Unknown | 27 | 15% |