SAMN03840109 Gottschalkia purinilyticum Gottschalkia purinilytica Gottschalkia purinilyticum shows a strict selenium dependency (Duerre and Andreesen 1982) and could only be isolated by adding selenite to the enrichment medium (Duerre et al. 1981). It differs from the other two purinolytic species (G. acidurici and C. cylindrosporum) by its ability to grow on adenine. Georg-August-University Goettingen, Genomic and Applied Microbiology, Goettingen Genomics Laboratory G2L Team Microbe, viral or environmental Microbe.1.0 DSM 1384 soil 1941 not collected whole organism type strain of Clostridium purinilyticum