Clostridium sp. strain MF28 genome sequencing and assembly. Clostridium sp. MF28

Clostridium sp. strain MF28 possesses the following unique features: (i) direct conversion of xylan to butanol; (ii) non-sporulating, (iii) no acetone/ethanol byproducts, (iv) complete hemicellulose-binding enzymatic domain, and (v) absence of carbon catabolite repression, indicating its great potential as an industrial strain for biofuel generation from lignocellulosic biomass due to the presence of a broad spectrum of hydrolytic and solventogenic enzymes in its genome.