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 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
Further reading
- Fitz-Gibbon ST; Ladner H; Kim UJ; Stetter KO; et al. (January 2002). "Genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99 (2): 984–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.241636498. PMC 117417. PMID 11792869. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
- Kaper, T.; Talik, B.; Ettema, T. J.; Bos, H.; et al. (2005). "Amylomaltase of Pyrobaculum aerophilum IM2 Produces Thermoreversible Starch Gels". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 (9): 5098–5106. doi:10.1128/AEM.71.9.5098-5106.2005. ISSN 0099-2240.
- Vallin, I.; Low, H. (1968). "The Effect of Piericidin A on Energy-Linked Processes in Submitochondrial Particles". European Journal of Biochemistry 5 (3): 402–408. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1968.tb00383.x. ISSN 0014-2956.
- Solomons, J. T. Graham; Johnsen, Ulrike; Schoenheit, Peter; Davies, Christopher (August 27, 2013). "3-Phosphoglycerate Is an Allosteric Activator of Pyruvate Kinase from the Hyperthermophilic ArchaeonPyrobaculum aerophilum". Biochemistry 52 (34): 5865–5875. doi:10.1021/bi400761b.