Aciduliprofundum

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Aciduliprofundum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Thermoplasmata
Order:
"Aciduliprofundales"
Family:
"Aciduliprofundaceae"
Genus:
"Ca.Aciduliprofundum"

Reysenbach et al. 2006
Type species
"Ca. Aciduliprofundum boonei"
Reysenbach et al. 2006
Species
Synonyms

Aciduliprofundum is a genus of the Euryarchaeota. [1]

A. boonei, is an extremophile, a thermoacidophilic archaeon that lives in oceanic deep-sea hydrothermal vents, that has been shown to produce antibiotics against common pathogenic bacteria. [2] It is one of a group of euryarchaeotes classed as DHVE2 – Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Euryarchaeota 2, and the only one to be isolated. [3] It is extremely widespread and yet has not been able to be cultivated. [4] For this reason it may sometimes have the taxonomic addition of Candidatus to its name - meaning a candidate for, until proven.

See also

References

  1. ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Aciduliprofundum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ↑ "Life's extremists may be an untapped source of antibacterial drugs".
  3. ↑ Flores, GE; Wagner, ID; Liu, Y; Reysenbach, AL (2012). "Distribution, abundance, and diversity patterns of the thermoacidophilic "deep-sea hydrothermal vent euryarchaeota 2"". Frontiers in Microbiology. 3: 47. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00047 . PMC   3282477 . PMID   22363325.
  4. ↑ Reysenbach, AL; Liu, Y; Banta, AB; Beveridge, TJ; Kirshtein, JD; Schouten, S; Tivey, MK; Von Damm, KL; Voytek, MA (27 July 2006). "A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents" (PDF). Nature. 442 (7101): 444–7. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..444R. doi:10.1038/nature04921. hdl: 1912/1408 . PMID   16871216. S2CID   4315587.


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