Geothermobacterium ferrireducens

Geothermobacterium ferrireducens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class: Thermodesulfobacteria
Order: Thermodesulfobacteriales
Family: Thermodesulfobacteriaceae
Genus: Geothermobacterium
Species:
G. ferrireducens
Binomial name
Geothermobacterium ferrireducens
Kashefi et al. 2002

Geothermobacterium ferrireducens is a species of hyperthermophilic thermodesulfobacterium discovered and known exclusively from Obsidian Pool in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.[1][2] Its name comes from the Latin ferrum, meaning Iron, and reducens, meaning conversion to a different state.[3][2] The bacteria are gram-negative rods, and move using a single flagellum.[2] They live in high temperatures, between 65 and 100 °C, with 85 to 90 degrees being the optimum range- the highest optimum temperature range of any member of the phylum Bacteria.[2] They are roughly 0.5 µm by 1.1 µm.[2] They have an unusual biology: they do not require organic carbon for growth, instead growing by coupling hydrogen oxidation with a form of Fe(III) oxide reduction.[2]

References

  1. ↑ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Geothermobacterium ferrireducens)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kashefi, Kazem; Holmes, Dawn E.; Reysenbach, Anna-Louise; Lovley, Derek R. (Apr 2002). "Use of Fe(III) as an Electron Acceptor To Recover Previously Uncultured Hyperthermophiles: Isolation and Characterization of Geothermobacterium ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 68 (4): 1735–1742. doi:10.1128/AEM.68.4.1735-1742.2002. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 123901. PMID 11916691.
  3. ↑ "Species: Geothermobacterium ferrireducens". LSPN.


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