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| HAMAP: Shewanella halifaxensis (strain HAW-EB4) complete proteome |
| Species code: | SHEHH |
| Taxonomy: | Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Alteromonadales; Shewanellaceae; Shewanella (TaxID: 458817) [NEWT/ NCBI] |
| Description: | Shewanella are facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative bacteria, motile by polar flagella, rod-like, and generally associated with aquatic or marine environments. They are capable of using a variety of compounds as electron acceptors, including oxygen, iron, manganese, uranium, nitrate, nitrite, fumarate, to name but a few. This ability makes Shewanella important for bioremediation of contaminated metals and radioactive wastes. The genus Shewanella comprises 36 recognized and hundreds of uncharacterized cultivable species. Shewanella halifaxensis (strain HAW-EB4) is an obligately respiratory denitrifying and RDX-mineralizing bacterium isolated from sediment in a munitions-dumping area of the Emerald Basin (depth of 215 m, Atlantic Ocean), offshore of Halifax Harbour (Nova Scotia, Canada). This psychrophilic, sodium cations-requiring and slightly halophilic bacterium is able to degrade hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) at 10 degrees Celsius. RDX is a member of a family of nitramine compounds which are used in the production of explosives. These chemicals are toxic and can be a major source of contamination of marine and freshwater sediments. |
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Presence of flagella:
Yes Human pathogen: No Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0 |
| Statistics: | Number of SHEHH entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4276 (413 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3863 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL) |
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