Acknowledgements We thank Drs Carlos Canchaya and David Glanzman

Acknowledgements We thank Drs. Carlos Canchaya and David Glanzman who were unable to attend the full meeting but contributed third to our discussions and decisions. The Catalysis Group Meeting was supported by the National Science Foundation through the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) under grant number NSF #EF-0905606. Scientists who have written in support of the white paper Tom Abrams, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Shelley Adamo, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Louise Allcock, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Frank E. Anderson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA Paul Andrews, St George’s, University of London, London, UK George J. Augustine, Center for Functional Connectomics, KIST, Seoul, Korea Yann Bassaglia, Univ.

Paris-Est Creteil, Creteil, France Elaine L. Bearer, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA Francisco Bezanilla, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Jean Geary Boal, Millersville University, Millersville, PA, USA Sydney Brenner, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan Euan R. Brown, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Bernd U. Budelmann, Galveston, TX, USA Roy Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA R. A
Strain ATCC 8093T (ATCC 8093 = DSM 506 = NBRC 14993) is the type strain of the species Starkeya novella [1] and the type species of the genus Starkeya [1], which currently contains only one other species, S. koreensis [2]. The most prominent feature of S.

novella is its ability to grow as a facultative chemolithoautotroph [3], a heterotroph [4], or methylotroph [1,5]. Cultures of strain ATCC 8093T were first isolated from soil samples taken from agricultural land in New Jersey by Robert L. Entinostat Starkey in the early 1930s [6,7] and deposited in the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) under the basonym Thiobacillus novellus [3,8]. The bacterium was referred to as the ��new�� Thiobacillus as it was the first facultatively chemolithoautotrophic sulfur oxidizer to be isolated. Until then, all known dissimilatory sulfur-oxidizing bacteria were also obligate autotrophs. As a result, the metabolism of T. novellus was intensely studied for many years following its discovery, and particularly following the development of more sophisticated biochemical and molecular methods in the 1960s. During the last fifty years, the strain has been used in numerous molecular studies, both of its oxidative sulfur metabolism and the versatility and regulation of its carbon metabolism.

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