US EPA

4628523 

Journal Article 

Review 

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and its potential application 

Zhang, S; Yan, L; Xing, W; Chen, P; Zhang, Y; Wang, W 

2018 

Yes 

Extremophiles
ISSN: 1431-0651
EISSN: 1433-4909 

22 

4 

563-579 

English 

29696439 

10.1007/s00792-018-1024-9 

WOS:000434355100001 

The widely distributed Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (A. ferrooxidans) lives in extremely acidic conditions by fixing CO2 and nitrogen, and by obtaining energy from Fe2+ oxidation with either downhill or uphill electron transfer pathway and from reduced sulfur oxidation. A. ferrooxidans exists as different genomovars and its genome size is 2.89-4.18 Mb. The chemotactic movement of A. ferrooxidans is regulated by quorum sensing. A. ferrooxidans shows weak magnetotaxis due to formation of 15-70 nm magnetite magnetosomes with surface functional groups. The room- and low-temperature magnetic features of A. ferrooxidans are different from other magnetotactic bacteria. A. ferrooxidans has potential for removing sulfur from solids and gases, metals recycling from metal-bearing ores, electric wastes and sludge, biochemical production synthesizing, and metal workpiece machining.