Thermoproteus

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Thermoproteus

Domain:	Archaea
Phylum:	Crenarchaeota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Thermoproteales
Family:	Thermoproteaceae
Genus:	Thermoproteus

Species

T. neutrophilus
T. sp. IC-031
T. sp. IC-033
T. sp. IC-061
T. sp. IC-062
T. sp. IC-070
T. tenax
uncultured Thermoproteus sp.

Synonyms

Thermoproteus Zillig and Stetter 1982

In taxonomy, Thermoproteus is a genus of the Thermoproteaceae.^[1]

These prokaryotes are thermophilic sulphur-dependent organisms related to the genera Sulfolobus, Pyrodictium and Desulfurococcus.^[2] They are hydrogen-sulphur autotrophs and can grow at temperatures of up to 95 degrees Celsius.^[3]

1 References
2 Further reading
3 External links

[edit] References

^ See the NCBI webpage on Thermoproteus. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
^ Woese C, Olsen G. "Archaebacterial phylogeny: perspectives on the urkingdoms.". Syst Appl Microbiol 7: 161–77. PMID 11542063.
^ Messner P, Pum D, Sára M, Stetter K, Sleytr U (1986). "Ultrastructure of the cell envelope of the archaebacteria Thermoproteus tenax and Thermoproteus neutrophilus.". J Bacteriol 166 (3): 1046–54. PMID 3086286.

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Scientific journals

Judicial Commision of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (2005). "The nomenclatural types of the orders Acholeplasmatales, Halanaerobiales, Halobacteriales, Methanobacteriales, Methanococcales, Methanomicrobiales, Planctomycetales, Prochlorales, Sulfolobales, Thermococcales, Thermoproteales and Verrucomicrobiales are the genera Acholeplasma, Halanaerobium, Halobacterium, Methanobacterium, Methanococcus, Methanomicrobium, Planctomyces, Prochloron, Sulfolobus, Thermococcus, Thermoproteus and Verrucomicrobium, respectively. Opinion 79". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 55: 517–518. PMID 15653928.

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: 657–660. PMID 9226896.

Zillig W, Stetter KO, Schafer W, Janekovic D, Wunderl S, Holz I, Palm P (1981). "Thermoproteales: a novel type of extremely thermoacidophilic anaerobic archaebacteria isolated from Icelandic solfataras". Zentralbl. Mikrobiol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C2: 205–227.