Turicibacter

Turicibacter
Turicibacter sp. H121 cells under microscope
Turicibacter sp. H121 colonies
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Erysipelotrichia
Order:	Erysipelotrichales
Family:	Turicibacteraceae Verbarg et al. 2020
Genus:	Turicibacter Bosshard, Zbinden & Altwegg 2002
Type species
Turicibacter sanguinis Bosshard, Zbinden & Altwegg 2002
Species [1]
Turicibacter bilis Turicibacter faecis Turicibacter sanguinis

Turicibacter is a genus in the Bacillota phylum of bacteria that has most commonly been found in the guts of animals. ^[2] The genus is named after the city in which it was first isolated from the blood of a human, Zurich (Latin = Turicum), Switzerland. ^[3]

Phylogeny

The position of Turicibacter within the Bacillota could not be resolved using 16S rRNA gene-based analyses. However, it was tentatively placed in the class Bacilli, then the class Erysipelotrichia. ^[4]

In a tree built using a concatenated protein alignment containing data from two draft Turicibacter genomes, the group was placed at the base of the class Bacilli. ^[5] Later analyses that also included amino acid sequences predicted by a complete Turicibacter genome came to the same conclusion. ^[2]

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) ^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). ^[6]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024 [7] [8] [9]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220 [10] [11] [12]
Turicibacter T. bilisMaki & Looft 2022 T. sanguinisBosshard, Zbinden & Altwegg 2002	Turicibacter T. bilisMaki & Looft 2022 T. sanguinisBosshard, Zbinden & Altwegg 2002

References

1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Turicibacter". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
2. Auchtung TA, Holder ME, Gesell JR, Ajami NJ, Duarte RT, Itoh K, Caspi RR, Petrosino JF, Horai R, Zárate-Bladés CR (2016). "Complete Genome Sequence of Turicibacter sp. Strain H121, Isolated from the Feces of a Contaminated Germ-Free Mouse". Genome Announcements. 4 (2): e00114-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00114-16. PMC   4807225 . PMID   27013036.
3. Bosshard PP, Zbinden R, Altwegg M (2002). "Turicibacter sanguinis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52: 1263–1266. doi: 10.1099/00207713-52-4-1263 . PMID   12148638.
4. Bosshard PP. "Genus VIII. Turicibacter Bosshard, Zbinden and Altwegg 2002, 1266^VP". In De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer K, Whitman WB (eds.). Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology, 2nd ed. The Firmicutes. Springer. pp. 1314–1315.
5. Segata N, Börnigen D, Morgan XC, Huttenhower C (2013). "PhyloPhlAn is a new method for improved phylogenetic and taxonomic placement of microbes". Nature Communications. 4: 2304. doi:10.1038/ncomms3304. PMC   3760377 . PMID   23942190.
6. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Turicibacter". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
7. "The LTP" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
8. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
9. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
10. "GTDB release 09-RS220". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.
11. "bac120_r220.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.
12. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.