Moorella thermoacetica

Moorella thermoacetica, previously known as Clostridium thermoaceticum, is an acetogenic, thermophilic, strictly anaerobic, endospore-forming, bacterium belonging to the phylum Bacillota.^[1]

Moorella thermoacetica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:	Thermoanaerobacteriaceae
Genus:	Moorella
Species:	M. thermoacetica
Binomial name
Moorella thermoacetica Collins et al. 1994
Synonyms
Clostridium thermoaceticum

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including Peidong Yang, were able to induce M. thermoacetica to photosynthesize, despite its not being photosynthetic. It also synthesized semiconductor nanoparticles, thus using light to produce chemical products other than those produced in photosynthesis.^[2]