Thermithiobacillus tepidarius

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Thermithiobacillus tepidarius
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Acidithiobacillia
Order:
Acidithiobacillales
Family:
Thermithiobacillaceae
Genus:
Thermithiobacillus
Species:
T. tepidarius
Binomial name
Thermithiobacillus tepidarius
(Wood and Kelly 1985) Kelly and Wood 2000[1]
Type strain
DSM 3134T

Thermithiobacillus tepidarius (from the Latin tepidarium; a warm bath fed by natural thermal water) is a member of the Acidithiobacillia isolated from the thermal groundwaters of the Roman Baths at Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom.[2] It was previously placed in the genus Thiobacillus.[3] The organism is a moderate thermophile, 43–45 °C (109–113 °F), and an obligate aerobic chemolithotrophic autotroph. Despite having an optimum pH of 6.0–7.5, growth can continue to an acid medium of pH 4.8.[2] Growth can only occur on reduced inorganic sulfur compounds (thiosulfate, polythionates from trithionate to pace , sulfide) and elementary sulfur, but unlike some species in other genus of the same family, Acidithiobacillus, Thermithiobacillus spp. are unable to oxidise ferrous iron or iron-containing minerals.[3][4]

The genome sequence was completed in 2016.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Parte, A.C. "Thermithiobacillus". LPSN.
  2. ^ a b Wood,A.P. & Kelly, D.P. (1986). "Chemolithotrophic metabolism of the newly-isolated moderately thermophilic, obligately autotrophic Thiobacillus tepidarius". Archives of Microbiology. 144 (1): 71–77. doi:10.1007/BF00454959. S2CID 22219334.[1]
  3. ^ a b Kelly & Wood (2000). "Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50 (2): 489–500. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-2-511. PMID 10758854.
  4. ^ a b Boden (2016). "Permanent draft genome of Thermithiobacillus tepidarius DSM 3134T, a moderately thermophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic member of the Acidithiobacillia". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11: 74. doi:10.1186/s40793-016-0188-0. PMC 5037610. PMID 27708749.

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