Species code:	GEOMG
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Deltaproteobacteria; Desulfuromonadales; Geobacteraceae; Geobacter (TaxID: 269799) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Geobacter metallireducens (strain GS-15 / ATCC 53774 / DSM 7210) was isolated in the Potomac river just downstream from Washington D.C. in 1987. It is able to gain energy through the dissimilatory reduction of iron, manganese, uranium and other metals. In addition, G. metallireducens can oxidize several short chain fatty acids, alcohols and monoaromatic compounds including toluene and phenol with iron as the sole electron acceptor. Therefore, it is a possible agent for bioremediation. Geobacter metallireducens specifically expresses flagella and pili, only when grown on insoluble Fe(III) or Mn(IV) oxide, and is chemotactic towards Fe(II) and Mn(II) under these conditions. These results suggest that it senses when soluble electron acceptors are depleted and then synthesizes the appropriate appendages to search for, and establish contact with, insoluble Fe(III) or Mn(IV) oxide.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of GEOMG entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3467 (346 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3121 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000148 (circular; 3,997,420 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pGS-15 EMBL accession number CP000149 (circular; 13,762 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., Di Bartolo G., Chain P., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Kyrpides N., Ivanova N., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of Geobacter metallireducens GS-15."; Submitted (OCT-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. [2] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina T., Hammon N., Israni S., Pitluck S., Di Bartolo G., Chain P., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Kyrpides N., Ivanova N., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of plasmid of Geobacter metallireducens GS-15."; Submitted (OCT-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://www.geobacter.org/ Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Geobacter&GLspecies=metallireducens&GLstrain=GS15 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid269799%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Gmet_GS15 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p177_Geo_metal  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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