Clostridium cellulolyticum

Guedon, E., Payot, S., Desvaux, M., and Petitdemange, H. 1999. Carbon and electron flow in Clostridium cellulolyticum grown in chemostat culture on synthetic medium. J. Bacte-riol. 181, 3262-3269. 

Clostridium cellulolyticum cellulase Cel9M 1IA6 Cysa 15 Cys 0 His 15 His ... 

Pages, S., A. Belaich, J. R Belaich, E. Morag, R. Lamed, Y. Shoham, and E. A. Bayer. 1997. Species-specificity of the cohesin-dockerin interaction between Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium cellulolyticum Prediction of specificity determinants of the dockerin domain. Proteins 29 517-27. 

Li, Y., Tschaplinski, T.J., Engle, N.L., Hamilton, C.Y. et al (2012) Combined inactivation of the Clostridium cellulolyticum lactate and malate dehydrogenase genes substantially increases ethanol yield from cellulose and switchgrass fermentations. Biotechnol Biofuels, 5, 2. 

Higashide, W., Li, Y., Yang, Y, and Liao, J.C. (2011) Metabolic engineering of Clostridium cellulolyticum for production of isobutanol from cellulose. Appl EnvirorL Microbiol., 77, 2727—2733. 

Bacteria of the species Clostridium thermocellum degrade crystalline cellulose efficiently (Fig. 6). They occur most frequently in metagenome analysis data (Wirth et al. 2012 Krause et al. 2008). Other cellulolytic bacteria with high sequence abundance (within the 40 most frequently found species) were Clostridium cellulolyticum, Ruminococcus albus, Clostridium saccharolyticum, and Caldicellu-losiruptor saccharolyticus (Wirth et al. 2012). The high abundance of cellulolytic members in the Clostridia indicates the important role of these bacteria for degradation of complex substrates in the natural remineralization of biomass. 

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