Geobacter lovleyi

Geobacter lovleyi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class:	Desulfuromonadia
Order:	Geobacterales
Family:	Geobacteraceae
Genus:	Geobacter
Species:	G. lovleyi
Binomial name
Geobacter lovleyi Sung et al. 2009
Synonyms
Trichlorobacter lovleyi(Sung et al. 2009) Waite et al. 2020

Geobacter lovleyi is a gram-negative metal-reducing and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating proteobacterium. It has potential as a bioremediation organism, and is actively researched as such. ^[1]

References

1. Sung, Y.; Fletcher, K. E.; Ritalahti, K. M.; Apkarian, R. P.; Ramos-Hernandez, N.; Sanford, R. A.; Mesbah, N. M.; Loffler, F. E. (2006). "Geobacter lovleyi sp. nov. Strain SZ, a Novel Metal-Reducing and Tetrachloroethene-Dechlorinating Bacterium". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72 (4): 2775–2782. doi:10.1128/AEM.72.4.2775-2782.2006. ISSN   0099-2240. PMC   1448980 . PMID   16597982.

Further reading

• Amos, Benjamin K., et al. "Detection and quantification of Geobacter lovleyi strain SZ: implications for bioremediation at tetrachloroethene-and uranium-impacted sites." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73.21 (2007): 6898–6904.
• Wagner, Darlene D; Hug, Laura A; Hatt, Janet K; Spitzmiller, Melissa R; Padilla-Crespo, Elizabeth; Ritalahti, Kirsti M; Edwards, Elizabeth A; Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T; Löffler, Frank E (2012). "Genomic determinants of organohalide-respiration in Geobacter lovleyi, an unusual member of the Geobacteraceae". BMC Genomics. 13 (1): 200. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-200 . ISSN   1471-2164. PMC   3403914 . PMID   22616984.

External links

• "Geobacter lovleyi". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• LPSN
• The type strain of Geobacter lovleyi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase