Thermococcus barophilus
Thermococcus barophilus is a barophilic and hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. It is anaerobic and sulfur-metabolising, with type strain MPT.[1]
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Nomenclature
The name Thermococcus barophilus has Greek roots, thermo for heat, kokkos for the spherical cells, baros for weight, and philos for loving. Overall, the name means "organism with a spherical body that gravitates to heat and to the pressure of the water column."[2]
Physiology
T. barophilus can grow at even higher temperatures if the pressure is high, as well. At an atmospheric pressure, it can grow at temperatures of 45-90 °C, with an optimal temperature of 85 °C, but it can grow at temperatures as high as 100 °C if the hydrostatic pressure is 15.0-17.5 MPa.[2]
References
- Marteinsson, V. T.; Birrien, J.-L.; Reysenbach, A.-L.; Vernet, M.; Marie, D.; Gambacorta, A.; Messner, P.; Sleytr, U. B.; Prieur, D. (1999). "Thermococcus barophilus sp. nov., a new barophilic and hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated under high hydrostatic pressure from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 49 (2): 351–359. doi:10.1099/00207713-49-2-351. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 10319455.
- David R. Boone; Richard W. Castenholz, eds. (2012-01-13). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 1 (2 ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 344. ISBN 038721609X. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
Further reading
- Thiel, A.; Michoud, G.; Moalic, Y.; Flament, D.; Jebbar, M. (2014). "Genetic Manipulations of the Hyperthermophilic Piezophilic Archaeon Thermococcus barophilus". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80 (7): 2299–2306. doi:10.1128/AEM.00084-14. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 3993132. PMID 24487541.
- Marteinsson, V. T.; Reysenbach, A. -L.; Birrien, J. -L.; Prieur, D. (1999). "A stress protein is induced in the deep-sea barophilic hyperthermophile Thermococcus barophilus when grown under atmospheric pressure". Extremophiles. 3 (4): 277–282. doi:10.1007/s007920050128. ISSN 1431-0651. PMID 10591019.
- Vannier, Pauline (Mar 2011). "Complete Genome Sequence of the Hyperthermophilic, Piezophilic, Heterotrophic, and Carboxydotrophic Archaeon Thermococcus barophilus MP". Journal of Bacteriology. 193 (6): 1481–2. doi:10.1128/JB.01490-10. PMC 3067617. PMID 21217005. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- Satyanarayana, Tulasi, Jennifer Littlechild, and Yutaka Kawarabayasi. "Thermophilic Microbes in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology."
External links
- "Thermococcus barophilus" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- LPSN
- Type strain of Thermococcus barophilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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