Clostridium autoethanogenum

Clostridium autoethanogenum is an anaerobic bacterium that produces ethanol from carbon monoxide, in so-called syngas fermentation, being one of the few known microorganisms to do so. It is gram-positive, spore-forming, rod-like, motile, and was first isolated from rabbit feces. Its type strain is strain JA1-1.^[1] Its genome has been sequenced ^[2] and the genes required for utilising carbon monoxide as a sole carbon and energy source have been determined.^[3]

Clostridium autoethanogenum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Clostridiaceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	C. autoethanogenum
Binomial name
Clostridium autoethanogenum Abrini et al. 1994

Uses

This species is the key to the technology developed by Lanzatech to create ethanol from waste carbon monoxide gas of factory emissions.^{[citation needed]}