Thermofilum

Thermofilum is a genus of archaea in the family Thermofilaceae.^[1]

Thermofilum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Proteoarchaeota
Superphylum:	TACK group
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Thermoproteales
Family:	Thermofilaceae
Genus:	Thermofilum Zillig & Gierl 1983
Type species
Thermofilum pendens Zillig and Gierl 1983
Species
T. adornatum "T. carboxyditrophum" "T. librum" T. pendens

Thermofilum pendens is a hyperthermic member of the archael kingdom Crenarchaeota,^[2] and represents a deep branch in the order Thermoproteales. T. pendens lacks the genes for purine nucleotide biosynthesis and thus relies on environmental sources to meet its purine requirements.^[3][2]

Taxonomy

Cladogram was taken from GTDB release 06-RS202.^[4][5][6] Taxonomy from List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[7] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[1]

Thermofilaceae	Infirmifilum "I. lucidum" Zayulina et al. 2021 "I. uzonense" (Toshchakov et al. 2016) Zayulina et al. 2021 Thermofilum T. adornatum Zayulina et al. 2020 T. pendens Zillig & Gierl 1983

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Thermofilales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
2. Anderson I, Rodriguez J, Susanti D, Porat I, Reich C, Ulrich LE, Elkins JG, Mavromatis K, Lykidis A, Kim E, Thompson LS, Nolan M, Land M, Copeland A, Lapidus A, Lucas S, Detter C, Zhulin IB, Olsen GJ, Whitman W, Mukhopadhyay B, Bristow J, Kyrpides N. Genome sequence of Thermofilum pendens reveals an exceptional loss of biosynthetic pathways without genome reduction. J Bacteriol. 2008 Apr;190(8):2957-65. doi: 10.1128/JB.01949-07. Epub 2008 Feb 8. PMID: 18263724; PMCID: PMC2293246
3. Brown AM, Hoopes SL, White RH, Sarisky CA. Purine biosynthesis in archaea: variations on a theme. Biol Direct. 2011 Dec 14;6:63. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-63. PMID: 22168471; PMCID: PMC3261824
4. "GTDB release 06-RS202". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
5. "ar122_r202.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
6. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
7. J.P. Euzéby. "Thermofilaceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2021-06-27.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• 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 (3): 657–660. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-657. PMID 9226896.
• Zillig W; Gierl A; Schreiber G; Wunderl S; Janekovic D; Stetter KO; et al. (1983). "The archaebacterium Thermofilum pendens represents a novel genus of the thermophilic, anaerobic sulfur respiring Thermoproteales". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 4 (1): 79–87. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(83)80035-6. PMID 23196301.
• Li, Dan (May 2013). "Characterization and application of an acidophilic and thermostable beta-glucosidase from Thermofilum pendens". Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 115 (5): 490–496. doi:10.1016/j.jbiosc.2012.11.009. PMID 23266119.

External links

• Type strain of Thermofilum pendens at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase