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From the viewpoint of biogeochemistry, Clostridium pasteurianum is a relevant organism to study for many reasons. It is involved in cycling of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and selenium and is capable of stable isotope fractionation of these elements (Laishley et al., 1976; Rashid, 1978). An appreciation of its participation in the sulfur cycle has been overshadowed by the facts that this organism gained considerable importance in the elucidating of the mechanism of non-symbiotic N2 fixation (Winter and Burris, 1976) and that SO 2−4 reduction has usually been associated with the “classical” reducers, Desulfovibrio spp. and Desulfotomaculum spp. In considering the early development of biochemical systems, however, ferredoxin and 5S ribosomal RNA sequence studies provide evidence that the clostridia evolved prior to the classical sulfate reducers (Schwartz and Dayhoff, 1978).
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Laishley, E.J., Harrison, G.I., Bryant, R.D., Krouse, H.R. (1980). Influence of Selenium Compounds on Reduction of Sulfur Compounds and Associated Sulfur Isotope Fractionation in Clostridium Pasteurianum . In: Biogeochemistry of Ancient and Modern Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-26582-6_27
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