Thermofilum
In taxonomy, Thermofilum is a genus of the Thermofilaceae.[1]
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Thermofilum pendens is a hyperthermic member of the archael kingdom Crenarchaeota,[2] and represents a deep branch in the order Thermoproteales. T. pendens lacks the genes for purine nucleotide biosynthesis and thus relies on environmental sources to meet its purine requirements.[3][2]
References
- See the NCBI webpage on Thermofilum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- Anderson I, Rodriguez J, Susanti D, Porat I, Reich C, Ulrich LE, Elkins JG, Mavromatis K, Lykidis A, Kim E, Thompson LS, Nolan M, Land M, Copeland A, Lapidus A, Lucas S, Detter C, Zhulin IB, Olsen GJ, Whitman W, Mukhopadhyay B, Bristow J, Kyrpides N. Genome sequence of Thermofilum pendens reveals an exceptional loss of biosynthetic pathways without genome reduction. J Bacteriol. 2008 Apr;190(8):2957-65. doi: 10.1128/JB.01949-07. Epub 2008 Feb 8. PMID: 18263724; PMCID: PMC2293246
- Brown AM, Hoopes SL, White RH, Sarisky CA. Purine biosynthesis in archaea: variations on a theme. Biol Direct. 2011 Dec 14;6:63. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-63. PMID: 22168471; PMCID: PMC3261824
Further reading
Scientific journals
- Burggraf S; Huber H; Stetter KO (1997). "Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47 (3): 657–660. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-657. PMID 9226896.
- Zillig W; Gierl A; Schreiber G; Wunderl S; Janekovic D; Stetter KO; et al. (1983). "The archaebacterium Thermofilum pendens represents a novel genus of the thermophilic, anaerobic sulfur respiring Thermoproteales". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 4 (1): 79–87. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(83)80035-6. PMID 23196301.
- Li, Dan (May 2013). "Characterization and application of an acidophilic and thermostable beta-glucosidase from Thermofilum pendens". Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 115 (5): 490–496. doi:10.1016/j.jbiosc.2012.11.009. PMID 23266119.
External links
- NCBI taxonomy page for Thermofilum
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Thermofilum
- Search Species2000 page for Thermofilum
- MicrobeWiki page for Thermofilum
- LPSN page for Thermofilum
- Type strain of Thermofilum pendens at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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