Methanothermus fervidus
| Methanothermus fervidus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
| Phylum: | Euryarchaeota |
| Class: | Methanobacteria |
| Order: | Methanobacteriales |
| Family: | Methanothermaceae |
| Genus: | Methanothermus |
| Species: | Methanothermus fervidus Stetter et al., 1981 |
Methanothermus fervidus is a species of methanogen.[1] It is notable for being an extremely thermophilic methanogen. Its cells are rod-shaped; its complex cell envelope exhibits two layers, each about 12 nm thick; the inner represents the pseudomurein sacculus and the outer a protein envelope.
References
- ↑ Stetter, Karl O., et al. " Methanothermus fervidus, sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic methanogen isolated from an Icelandic hot spring."Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie Mikrobiologie und Hygiene: I. Abt. Originale C: Allgemeine, angewandte und ökologische Mikrobiologie 2.2 (1981): 166-178.
Further reading
- Sandman, Kathleen; et al. (1990). "HMf, a DNA-binding protein isolated from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Methanothermus fervidus, is most closely related to histones". PNAS 87 (15): 5788–5791. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.15.5788. PMC 54413. PMID 2377617.
- Sandman, Kathleen; et al. (1994). "Growth-phase-dependent synthesis of histones in the archaeon Methanothermus fervidus". PNAS 91 (26): 12624–12628. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.26.12624. PMC 45491. PMID 7809089.
- Steigerwald, V. J., G. S. Beckler, and J. N. Reeve. "Conservation of hydrogenase and polyferredoxin structures in the hyperthermophilic archaebacterium Methanothermus fervidus." Journal of bacteriology 172.8 (1990): 4715-4718.
- Anderson, Iain; et al. (2010). "Complete genome sequence of Methanothermus fervidus type strain (V24S(T))". Standards in Genomic Sciences 3 (3): 315–324. doi:10.4056/sigs.1283367. PMC 3035299. PMID 21304736.
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