Species code:	DESDG
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Deltaproteobacteria; Desulfovibrionales; Desulfovibrionaceae; Desulfovibrio (TaxID: 207559) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Sulfate-reducing bacteria have an important economic impact because they are involved in biocorrosion of ferrous metals in anaerobic environment. For example, their metabolism has several negative consequences for the petroleum industry (e.g. corrosion of the pumping machinery). These bacteria also contribute to bioremediation of toxic metal ions. Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (strain G20) is a spontaneously nalidixic acid resistant derivative of the wild-type strain G100A that was isolated from an oil well corrosion site. Strain G20 has also been cured of a 2.3-kb cryptic plasmid found in the freshly isolated strain. Recently, a number of Desulfovibrio strains, including strain G20, have been found be able to reduce toxic metals such as uranium and chromium, a process that results in the production of less water-soluble species. The modification of solubility properties brought about by the change in the redox state of the metal presents itself as a potential avenue for bioremediation of contaminated ground waters or soils.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of DESDG entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3733 (287 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3446 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000112 (circular; 3,730,232 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina T., Hammon N., Israni S., Pitluck S., Goodwin L.A., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Kyrpides N., Ivanova N., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans G20."; Submitted (AUG-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/desde/desde.home.html Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Desulfovibrio&GLspecies=desulfuricans&GLstrain=G20 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid207559%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Ddes_G20 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p329_Des_desul  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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