Clostridium leptum

Clostridium leptum
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
Class: Clostridia
Order: Clostridiales
Family: Clostridiaceae
Genus: Clostridium
Species: C. leptum
Binomial name
Clostridium leptum
Moore et al., 1976[1]

Clostridium leptum is a bacterium species in the genus Clostridium.

It forms a subgroup of human fecal microflora[2] and its reduction is associated with patient with inflammatory bowel disease.[3]

Genomic information
NCBI genome ID 951
Ploidy haploid
Genome size 3.27 Mb
Number of chromosomes 1

The genome of C. leptum has been sequenced.

References

  1. ↑ Moore, W. E. C; Johnson, J. L.; Holdeman, L. V. (1976). "Emendation of Bacteroidaceae and Butyrivibrio and Descriptions Of desulfomonas gen. nov. And Ten New Species in the Genera Desulfomonas, Butyrivibrio, Eubacterium, Clostridium, and Ruminococcus". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 26 (2): 238. doi:10.1099/00207713-26-2-238.
  2. ↑ Shen, J.; Zhang, B.; Wei, G.; Pang, X.; Wei, H.; Li, M.; Zhang, Y.; Jia, W.; Zhao, L. (2006). "Molecular Profiling of the Clostridium leptum Subgroup in Human Fecal Microflora by PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Clone Library Analysis". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72 (8): 5232–8. doi:10.1128/AEM.00151-06. PMC 1538713Freely accessible. PMID 16885270.
  3. ↑ Kabeerdoss, Jayakanthan; Sankaran, Vijayalakshmi; Pugazhendhi, Srinivasan; Ramakrishna, Balakrishnan S (2013). "Clostridium leptum group bacteria abundance and diversity in the fecal microbiota of patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A case–control study in India". BMC Gastroenterology. 13: 20. doi:10.1186/1471-230X-13-20. PMC 3565871Freely accessible. PMID 23351032.

External links

"Clostridium leptum". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). 


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