SAMD00015867
External Id
Chiba U., TUA, Yamaguchi U.
INSDC center name
2015-10-13T10:03:35Z
INSDC first public
2015-10-12T21:03:35Z
INSDC last update
DRS016241
INSDC secondary accession
live
INSDC status
Generic
NCBI submission model
Generic.1.0
NCBI submission package
DRS016241
SRA accession
alpha proteobacterium Q-1
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_1492281
organism
Alphaproteobacterium sp. Q-1 is one of iodide-oxidizing bacteria that can oxidize iodide (I-) to molecular iodine (I2). Such bacteria have been isolated from natural gas brine water containing very high concentrations of iodide (60 ?M to 1.2 mM). They are aerobic heterotrophic bacteria in the class Alphaproteobacteria, and can also be enriched from natural seawater supplemented with iodide, due to much higher I2 tolerance than the other heterotrophic bacteria in seawater. Recently, iodide-oxidizing bacteria are found to be involved in microbial clogging of well pipes in iodine-producing facilities. Alphaproteobacterium sp. Q-1 was isolated from brine water in Miyazaki, Japan, and was phylogenetically related with a halophilic photosynthetic bacterium Rhodothalassium salexigens with the sequence similarity of 90%. This bacterium showed a strong iodide-oxidizing enzyme activity, which was later found to be one of multicopper oxidases.
sample comment
DRS016241
sample name
Alphaproteobacterium Strain Q-1
title