Desulfomonile

Desulfomonile is a Gram negative, strict anaerobe and non-motile bacterial genus from the family of Syntrophaceae.^[2][3][4] Desulfomonile bacteria can reduce sulfur oxyanions to H2S.^[4]

Desulfomonile
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class:	Desulfomonilia Waite et al. 2020[1]
Order:	Desulfomonilales Waite et al. 2020
Family:	Desulfomonilaceae Waite et al. 2020
Genus:	Desulfomonile DeWeerd et al. 1991[2]
Type species
Desulfomonile tiedjei DeWeerd et al. 1991
Species
D. limimaris "Ca. D. palmitatoxidans" D. tiedjei

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. (2020). "Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 70 (11): 5972–6016. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004213. PMID 33151140.
2. Parte, A.C. "Desulfomonile". LPSN.
3. "Desulfomonile". www.uniprot.org.
4. DeWeerd, Kim A.; Todd Townsend, G.; Suflita, Joseph M. (1 January 2015). "Desulfomonile". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 1–5. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01062. ISBN 9781118960608.

Further reading

• Sun, B; Cole, JR; Tiedje, JM (March 2001). "Desulfomonile limimaris sp. nov., an anaerobic dehalogenating bacterium from marine sediments". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 2): 365–71. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-2-365. PMID 11321081.
• Zhao, Siyan; Ding, Chang; He, Jianzhong; Kunze, Gotthard (2 April 2015). "Detoxification of 1,1,2-Trichloroethane to Ethene by Desulfitobacterium and Identification of Its Functional Reductase Gene". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e0119507. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1019507Z. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119507. PMC 4383557. PMID 25835017.
• Atlas, Ronald M. (2005). Handbook of Media for Environmental Microbiology (2nd ed.). Hoboken: CRC Press. ISBN 1-4200-3748-X.