Pyrobaculum aerophilum

Pyrobaculum aerophilum
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Crenarchaeota
Phylum: Crenarchaeota
Class: Thermoprotei
Order: Thermoproteales
Family: Thermoproteaceae
Genus: Pyrobaculum
Species: P. aerophilum
Binomial name
Pyrobaculum aerophilum
Völkl et al., 1993

Pyrobaculum aerophilum is a single-celled microorganism in the Pyrobaculum genus. The first Pyrobaculum species to be sequenced was P. Aerophilum. It is a rod-shaped hyperthermophilic archaeum first isolated from a boiling marine water hole at Maronti Beach, Ischia. It forms characteristic terminal spherical bodies (so called "golf clubs") like Thermoproteus and Pyrobaculum. Its type strain is IM2; DSM 7523).[1] Its optimum temperature for growth is around boiling point for water.[2]

Its circular genome sequence is 2,222,430 Bp in length and contains 2605 protein-coding sequences (CDS). It is capable of aerobic respiration. Its name references this ability: aerophilum coming from the Greek: ἀήρ ("aero"), meaning air, and φιλο (philo), meaning loving. It produces colonies that are round and greyish yellow. It uses both organic and inorganic compounds during respiration.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Völkl P; Huber R; Drobner E; et al. (September 1993). "Pyrobaculum aerophilum sp. nov., a novel nitrate-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeum". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59 (9): 2918–26. PMC 182387. PMID 7692819. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
  2. Ausili, Alessio; Vitale, Annalisa; Labella, Tullio; Rosso, Francesco; et al. (2012). "Alcohol dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum: Stability at high temperature". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 525 (1): 40–46. doi:10.1016/j.abb.2012.05.019. ISSN 0003-9861.
  3. Cozen, A. E.; Weirauch, M. T.; Pollard, K. S.; Bernick, D. L.; et al. (2008). "Transcriptional Map of Respiratory Versatility in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum". Journal of Bacteriology 191 (3): 782–794. doi:10.1128/JB.00965-08. ISSN 0021-9193.

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