Archaeoglobaceae

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Archaeoglobaceae

The PIWI domain of an argonaute protein from A. fulgidus, bound to a short double-stranded RNA fragment and illustrating the base-pairing and aromatic stacking stabilization of the bound conformation.

Scientific classification

Domain:	Archaea
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Archaeoglobi
Order:	Archaeoglobales
Family:	Archaeoglobaceae

Genera

Synonyms

Archaeoglobaceae Stetter 1989
Archaeoglobaceae Huber and Stetter 2002

In taxonomy, the Archaeoglobaceae are a family of the Archaeoglobales.^[1] All known genera within the Archaeoglobaceae are hyperthermophilic and can be found near undersea hydrothermal vents.

While all genera within the Archaeoglobaceae are related to each other phylogenetically, the mode of metabolism used by each of these organisms is unique. Archaeoglobus are chemoorganotrophic sulfate-reducing archaea, the only known member of the Archaea that possesses this type of metabolism. Ferroglobus, in contrast, are chemolithotrophic organisms that couple the oxidation of ferrous iron to the reduction of nitrate. Geoglobus are iron reducing-archaea that use hydrogen gas or organic compounds as energy sources.^[2]

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[edit] References

^ See the NCBI webpage on Archaeoglobaceae. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
^ * Madigan, M.T. and Martinko, J.M. (2005). Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 11th Ed.. Pearson Prentice Hall.

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[edit] Scientific books

Huber H, Stetter KO (2001). "Family I. Archaeoglobaceae fam. nov. Stetter 1989, 2216", in DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria, 2nd ed., New York: Springer Verlag, p. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712.

Huber H, Stetter KO (2001). "Order I. Archaeoglobales ord. nov.", in DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria, 2nd ed., New York: Springer Verlag, p. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712.

Stetter, KO (1989). "Group II. Archaeobacterial sulfate reducers. Order Archaeoglobales", in JT Staley, MP Bryant, N Pfennig, and JG Holt, eds.: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume 3, 1st ed., Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co., p. 169.