Alkaliphilus transvaalensis

Alkaliphilus transvaalensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Peptostreptococcales
Family:	Natronincolaceae
Genus:	Alkaliphilus
Species:	A. transvaalensis
Binomial name
Alkaliphilus transvaalensis Takai et al. 2001

Alkaliphilus transvaalensis is an extremely alkaliphilic bacterium. Its cells are straight to slightly curved rods, motile by flagella and form endospores. Its type strain is SAGM1^T (= JCM 10712^T = ATCC 700919^T). ^[1]

References

1. Takai K, Moser DP, Onstott TC, Spoelstra N, Pfiffner SM, Dohnalkova A, et al. (2001). "Alkaliphilus transvaalensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from a deep South African gold mine". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 51 (Pt 4): 1245–56. doi: 10.1099/00207713-51-4-1245 . PMID   11491320.

Further reading

• Kobayashi, Tohru; Lu, Jie; Li, Zhijun; Hung, Vo Si; Kurata, Atsushi; Hatada, Yuji; Takai, Ken; Ito, Susumu; Horikoshi, Koki (2007). "Extremely high alkaline protease from a deep-subsurface bacterium, Alkaliphilus transvaalensis". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 75 (1): 71–80. doi:10.1007/s00253-006-0800-0. ISSN   0175-7598. PMID   17216443. S2CID   28361003.

External links

• "Alkaliphilus transvaalensis". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• Type strain of Alkaliphilus transvaalensis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase