Complete Genome Sequence of the Solvent Producer Clostridium saccharobutylicum NCP262 (DSM 13864).

Clostridium saccharobutylicum was employed for the production of acetone and butanol in South Africa until the 1970s. The genome comprises a single replicon (5,107,814 bp) harboring all the genes necessary for solvent production and the degradation of various organic compounds, such as fructose, cellobiose, sucrose, and mannose.

The purine-utilizing bacterium Clostridium acidurici 9a: a genome-guided metabolic reconsideration.

Clostridium acidurici is an anaerobic, homoacetogenic bacterium, which is able to use purines such as uric acid as sole carbon, nitrogen, and energy source. Together with the two other known purinolytic clostridia C. cylindrosporum and C.