Thermofilum

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Thermofilum

Zillig & Gierl 1983
Type species
Thermofilum pendens
Zillig and Gierl 1983
Species
  • T. adornatum
  • "T. carboxyditrophum"
  • "T. librum"
  • T. pendens

In taxonomy, Thermofilum is a genus of the Thermofilaceae. [1]

Contents

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. adornatumZayulina et al. 2020

T. pendensZillig & Gierl 1983

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References

  1. 1 2 See the NCBI webpage on Thermofilales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  2. 1 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.

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