Species code:	ALKOO
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Clostridiaceae; Alkaliphilus (TaxID: 350688) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Alkaliphilus oremlandii (strain OhILAs) is a versatile strict anaerobic, spore-forming, mesophillic Gram-positive bacterium phylogenetically associated with the Firmicutes. Clostridium sp. OhILAs has been renamed to Alkaliphilus oremlandii OhILAs. A. oremlandii was isolated from sediments of the Ohio River (Pittsburgh, PA). This bacterium can ferment glycerol, fructose, and lactate, as well as respire arsenate and thiosulfate. It is one of four organisms that are being sequenced by the JGI as part of the "Arsenic Genome Project" to further elucidate the microbial transformation of arsenic. Although it grows optimally at pH 8.4, 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated it is an Alkaliphilus species. Alkaliphilus oremlandii OhILAs is unique in that it can tolerate high arsenate concentrations (>40 mM) and readily degrades the organoarsenical 3-nitro-4-hydroxy benzene arsonic acid (roxarsone) within 48 hours. Thus it has great potential for use in the remediation of organoarsenicals in poultry waste and a model organism to investigate the process. (PMID: 17328188).
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of ALKOO entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 2828 (233 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 2595 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000853 (circular; 3,123,558 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Chain P., Malfatti S., Shin M., Vergez L., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Stolz J.F., Dawson A., Fisher E., Crable B., Perera E., Lisak J., Ranganathan M., Basu P., Richardson P. ; "Complete genome of Alkaliphilus oremlandii OhILAs."; Submitted (OCT-2007) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/clo_o/clo_o.home.html Other web sites: GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Aore_OhILAs  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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