A new extremely thermophilic,sulfur-reducing heterotrophic,marine bacterium |
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Authors: | Shimshon Belkin Holger W. Jannasch |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 02543 Woods Hole, MA, USA;(2) Present address: Membrane Bioenergetics Group, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | An extremely thermophilic (optimum growth at 88° C), anaerobic bacterium was isolated from a shallow submarine thermal spring. It appears to be an obligate heterotroph, capable of reducing sulfur to H2S. Oxygen sensitivity is apparent only at and above those temperatures where growth occurs, while the cultures retain their viability for long periods under air at 4° C. Insensitivity to chloramphenicol, vancomycin and streptomycin, and lack of muramic acid in its cell wall, indicate a possible affilitation of the new isolate to the thermoacidophilic archaebacteria. However, its neutrophilic and hetertrophic nature, as well as its DNA base composition (39.1 mol % guanine plus cytosine) set it apart from the known genera of this group.Abbreviations ASW Artifical sea water medium - Bis-tris propane 1,3-bis[tris(hydroxymethyl)-methylamino]-propane - Mes 2(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid - Pipes Piperazine-N,N-bis(2-ethanesulfonic acid) |
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Keywords: | Archaebacteria Extreme thermophily Sulfur reduction |
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