Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans

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Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacillota
Class:
Incertae sedis
Genus:
Sulfobacillus
Species:
S. thermosulfidooxidans
Binomial name
Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans
Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1991 [1]

Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans is a species of bacteria of the genus Sulfobacillus . It is an acidophilic, mixotrophic, moderately thermophilic, Gram-positive, sporulating facultative anaerobe. As its name suggests, it is capable of oxidizing sulfur. [2] [3] [4]

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Taxonomy

S. thermosulfidooxidans, as well as the genus Sulfobacillus , were first described in 1978 based on isolates from Kazakhstan. [5] [1] S. thermosulfidooxidans is the type species of the genus. [1] The genus is of uncertain taxonomic position, [3] [1] likely related to the genus Thermaerobacter and possibly representing either a deep branch of the Bacillota or a separate phylum. [3] [6]

Distribution and ecology

S. thermosulfidooxidans is widely distributed in both natural and artificial acidic environments, including hot springs and acid mine drainage. Strains have been isolated from a variety of locations including China, [7] Chile, [4] Kazakhstan, [5] California, [2] and Zambia. [7] Compared to other bacteria often found in similar environments, Sulfobacillus species are typically present at relatively low abundance. [2] [7]

Growth and metabolism

S. thermosulfidooxidans is acidophilic and moderately thermophilic; while different strains have slightly different pH and temperature growth optima, all prefer environments around pH 2.0 with optimal growth temperatures ranging from 45C to 55C. [5] [8] [3] [4] S. thermosulfidooxidans is iron- and sulfur-oxidizing, capable of oxidation of elemental sulfur, tetrathionate, and sulfides. [2]

Genome

The genomes of several S. thermosulfidooxidans strains have been sequenced, demonstrating a genome size of 3.2-3.9 megabases, with a GC content of 48-49% [4] [2] [3] [7] and a number of bioinformatically defined protein-coding genes ranging from a low of about 3200 [3] to a high of about 3900. [2] All of the sequenced genomes contain large numbers of genes associated with sulfur oxidation; for example, genes encoding sulfur oxygenase reductase (SOR) and heterodisulfide reductase-like enzymes. [2] [3] [7] The genetic basis of the species' iron oxidation capacity is less clear but likely involves a sulfocyanin protein. [2] [3] [7] The genome also contains large numbers of transport proteins, including those specialized for metal ion efflux, and several CRISPR/Cas systems. [3] There is evidence of horizontal gene transfer as a significant contributor to S. thermosulfidooxidans evolution, including an unexpected relationship between a SOR gene and similar genes found only in archaea. [2] [3] [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Genus Sulfobacillus". List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Justice, Nicholas B; Norman, Anders; Brown, Christopher T; Singh, Andrea; Thomas, Brian C; Banfield, Jillian F (2014). "Comparison of environmental and isolate Sulfobacillus genomes reveals diverse carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and hydrogen metabolisms". BMC Genomics. 15 (1): 1107. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1107 . PMC   4378227 . PMID   25511286.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Guo, Xue; Yin, Huaqun; Liang, Yili; Hu, Qi; Zhou, Xishu; Xiao, Yunhua; Ma, Liyuan; Zhang, Xian; Qiu, Guanzhou; Liu, Xueduan; Mormile, Melanie R. (18 June 2014). "Comparative Genome Analysis Reveals Metabolic Versatility and Environmental Adaptations of Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans Strain ST". PLOS ONE. 9 (6): e99417. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099417 . PMC   4062416 . PMID   24940621.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Travisany, D.; Di Genova, A.; Sepulveda, A.; Bobadilla-Fazzini, R. A.; Parada, P.; Maass, A. (26 October 2012). "Draft Genome Sequence of the Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans Cutipay Strain, an Indigenous Bacterium Isolated from a Naturally Extreme Mining Environment in Northern Chile". Journal of Bacteriology. 194 (22): 6327–6328. doi:10.1128/JB.01622-12. PMC   3486405 . PMID   23105067.
  5. 1 2 3 Golovacheva, RS; Karavaĭko, GI (1978). "[Sulfobacillus, a new genus of thermophilic sporulating bacteria]". Mikrobiologiia. 47 (5): 815–22. PMID   101742.
  6. ↑ Ludwig, Wolfgang; Schleifer, Karl-Heinz; Whitman, William B. (2001). "Revised road map to the phylum Firmicutes". In Vos, Paul; Garrity, George; Jones, Dorothy; Krieg, Noel R.; Ludwig, Wolfgang; Rainey, Fred A.; Schleifer, Karl-Heinz; Whitman, William B. (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 3: The Firmicutes (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN   978-0-387-95041-9.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Zhang, Xian; Liu, Xueduan; Liang, Yili; Guo, Xue; Xiao, Yunhua; Ma, Liyuan; Miao, Bo; Liu, Hongwei; Peng, Deliang; Huang, Wenkun; Zhang, Yuguang; Yin, Huaqun; Drake, Harold L. (1 April 2017). "Adaptive Evolution of Extreme Acidophile Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans Potentially Driven by Horizontal Gene Transfer and Gene Loss". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 83 (7). doi:10.1128/AEM.03098-16. PMC   5359484 . PMID   28115381.
  8. ↑ Bogdanova, T. I. (1 May 2006). "Sulfobacillus thermotolerans sp. nov., a thermotolerant, chemolithotrophic bacterium". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (5): 1039–1042. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64106-0. PMID   16627651.
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