Thermosyntropha lipolytica

Thermosyntropha lipolytica
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
Class: Clostridia
Order: Clostridiales
Family: Syntrophomonadaceae
Genus: Thermosyntropha
Species: T. lipolytica
Binomial name
Thermosyntropha lipolytica
Svetlitshnyi et al. 1996

Thermosyntropha lipolytica is a lipolytic, anaerobic, alkalitolerant, thermophilic bacteria. It lives in syntrophic coculture with a methanogen. Its cells are non-motile, non-spore forming, straight or slightly curved rods. Its type strain is JW/VS-265T (=DSM 11003).[1]

References

  1. Svetlitshnyi, V.; Rainey, F.; Wiegel, J. (1996). "Thermosyntropha lipolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a Lipolytic, Anaerobic, Alkalitolerant, Thermophilic Bacterium Utilizing Short- and Long-Chain Fatty Acids in Syntrophic Coculture with a Methanogenic Archaeum". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (4): 1131–1137. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-4-1131. ISSN 0020-7713.

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