Sulfophobococcus zilligii gen. nov., spec, nov. a novel hyperthermophilic archaeum isolated from hot alkaline springs of Iceland

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 102-110

  Hensel, Reinhard ^a   Matussek, Karl ^a   Michalke, Klaus ^a   Tacke, Lothar ^a   Tindall, B J ^b   Kohlhoff, Michael ^a   Siebers, Bettina ^a   Dielenschneider, Jana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rDNA sequence; Alkali tolerant; Chemotaxonomy; Crenarchaeota; Inhibition by elemental sulfur; Phenotype; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ETHER DERIVATIVE; GROWTH INHIBITOR; MEMBRANE LIPID; RIBOSOME DNA; SULFUR;

ALKALINITY; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FERMENTATION; GENOTYPE; ICELAND; NONHUMAN; PH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFUR BACTERIUM; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; YEAST;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DESULFUROCOCCUS MOBILIS; PYRODICTIUM OCCULTUM; SULFOPHOBOCOCCUS ZILLIGII;

EID: 0031048502     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(97)80054-9     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. BROCK, T. D., BROCK, M. L., BOTT, T. L., EDWARDS, M. R.: Microbial life at 90 °C: the sulfur bacteria of Boulder Spring. J. Bacteriol. 107, 202-214 (1970).
2. BROSIUS, J., PALMER, J. L., KENNEDY, J. P., NOLLER, H. F.: Complete nucleotide sequence of a 16S ribosomal RNA gene from Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75, 4801-4805 (1978).
3. BURGGRAF, S., LARSEN, N., WOESE, C. R., STETTER, K. O.: An Intron within the 16S ribosomal RNA gene of the archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 2547-2550 (1993).
4. BURGGRAF, S., MAYER, T., AMANN, R., SCHADHAUSER, S., WOESE, C. R., STETTER, K. O.: Identifying members of the domain Archaea with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60, 3112-3119 (1994).
5. DE ROSA, M., GAMBACORTA, A.: Archaeal lipids. In: Chemical methods in prokaryotic systematics, pp. 197-264 (GOODFELLOW, M., O'DONNELL, A. G., eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK (1994).
6. HENSEL, R., DEMHARTER, W., KANDLER, O., KROPPENSTEDT, R. M., STACKEBRANDT, E.: Chemotaxonomic and molecular-genetic studies on the genus Thermus: Evidence for a phylo-genetic relationship of Thermus aquaticus and Thermus ruber to the genus Deinococcus. Int. J. Bact. 36, 444-453 (1986).
7. HENSEL, R., DEMHARTER, W., HILPERT, R.: The microflora involved in aerobic-thermophilic sludge stabilization. System. Appl. Microbiol. 11, 312-319 (1989).
8. JANNASCH, H. W., WIRSEN, C. O., MOLYNEAUX, S. J., LANGWORTHY, T. A.: Extremely thermophilic fermentative archaebacteria of the genus Desulfurococcus from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 54, 1203-1209 (1988).
9. JUKES, T. H., CANTOR, C. R.: in: Mammalian protein metabolism (MUNRO, H. N., ed.), Acad. Press, New York 21-132 (1969).
10. KELLER, M., BRAUN, F. J., DIRMEIER, R., HAFENBRANDL, D., BURGGRAF, S., RACHEL, R., STETTER, K. O.: Thermococcus alcaliphilus sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeum growing on polysulfide at alkaline pH. Arch. Microbiol. 164, 390-395 (1995).
11. LARSEN, N., OLSEN, G. J., MAIDAK, B. L., MCCAUGHEY, M. J., OVERBECK, R., MACKE, T. J., MARSH, T. L., WOESE, C. R.: The ribosomal database project. Nuc. Acids Res. 21, 30231-3023 (1993).
12. MANDEL, M., IGAMBI, L., BERGENDAHL, J., DODSON, M. L. Jr., SCHELTGEN, E.: Correlation of melting temperature and cesium chloride boyant density of bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid. J. Bact. 101, 333-338 (1970).
13. MARMUR, J., DOTY, P.: Determination of the base composition of deoxyribonucleic acid from its thermal denaturation temperature. J. Mol. Biol. 5, 109-118 (1962).
14. MATHRANI, I. M., NIELSEN, P., SONNE-HANSEN, J., KRISTJANSSON, J. K., AHRING, B. K.: Influence of pH and Temperature on enumeration of cellulose- and hemicellulose-degrading thermophilic anaerobes in neutral and alkaline Icelandig hot springs. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 1963-1965 (1993).
15. MEAKIN, S. A., NASH, J. H. E., MURRAY, W. D., KENNEDY, K. J., SPROTT, G. D.: A generally applicable technique for the extraction of restrictable DNA from methanogeneic bacteria. J. Microbiol. Meth. 14, 119-126 (1991).
16. PIERSON, B. K., CASTENHOLZ, R. W.: A phototrophic gliding filamentous bacterium of hot springs, Chloroflexus aurantiacus gen. and sp. nov. Arch. Microbiol. 100, 5-24 (1974).
17. RIOUVIERE, P., MANDELCO, L., WINKER, S., WOESE, C. R.: A detailed phytogeny for the Methanomicrobiales. Sys. Appl. Microbiol. 15, 363-371 (1992).
18. SAITO, N., NEI, M.: The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstruction phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evol. 4, 406-425 (1987).
19. STETTER, K. O., THOMM, M., WINTER, J., WILDGRUBER, G., HUBER, H., ZILLIG, W., JANECOVIC, D., KONIG, H., PALM, P., WUNDERL., S.: Methanothermus fervidus, sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic methanogen isolated from an Iclandic hot spring. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Hyg., I. Abt. Orig. C3, 166-178 (1981).
20. TINDALL, B. J.: Phototrophic bacteria from Kenyan soda lakes. Ph.D.thesis, University of Leicester, UK (1980).
21. TINDALL, B. J.: A comparative study of the lipid composition of Halobacterium saccharovorum from various sources. System. Appl. Microbiol. 13, 128-130 (1990a).
22. TINDALL, B. J.: Lipid composition of Halobacterium lacusprofundi. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 66, 199-202 (1990b).
23. WIEMANN, S., RUPP, T., ZIMMERMANN, J., VOSS, H., SCHWAGER, C., ANSORGE, W.: Primer design for automated DNA sequencing utiHzing T7 DNA polymerase and internal labeling with fluoresceing-15-dATP. BioTechniques 18 (4), 688-697 (1995)
24. WINKER, S., WOESE, C. R.: A definition of the Archaea, Bacteria and Eucarya in terms of small subunit ribosomal RNA characteristics. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 14, 305-310 (1991).
25. ZEHNDER, A. J., WUHRMANN, K.: Titanium(III) citrate as a nontoxic oxidation-reduction buffering system for the culture of obligate anaerobes. Science 194, 1165-1166 (1976).
26. ZILLIG W, STETTER, K. O., PRANGISHVILLI, D., SCHAFER W., WUNDERL, S., JANECOVIC, D., HOLZ, I., PALM, P.: Desulfuro-coccaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic anaerobic sulfur respiring Thermoproteales. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Hyg., I. Abt. Orig. C3, 304-317 (1982).
27. ZIMMERMANN, R., ITURRIAGA, R., BECKER-BIRDE, J.: Simultaneous determination of the total number of aquatic bacteria and the number thereof involved in respiration. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 36, 926-935 (1978).