Thermotoga petrophila

Thermotoga petrophila is a hyperthermophilic, anaerobic, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped fermentative heterotroph, with type strain RKU-1T.[1] T. petrophila was first isolated and discovered from an oil reservoir off of the coast of Japan and was deemed genetically distinct from its sister clades. Because these organism are found in deep, hot aquatic settings, they have become of great interest for biotechnologies due to their enzymes functioning at high temperatures and pressures.

Thermotoga petrophila
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Thermotogota
Class: Thermotogae
Order: Thermotogales
Family: Thermotogaceae
Genus: Thermotoga
Species:
T. petrophila
Binomial name
Thermotoga petrophila
Takahata et al. 2001

References
  1. Y. Takahata, M. Nishijima, T. Hoaki (September 2001). "Thermotoga petrophila sp. nov. and Thermotoga naphthophila sp. nov., two hyperthermophilic bacteria from the Kubiki oil reservoir in Niigata, Japan". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 5): 1901–1909. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-5-1901. PMID 11594624.

Further reading
  • Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.
  • Priest, Fergus G., and Michael Goodfellow, eds. Applied microbial systematics. Springer, 2000.
  • Haq, Ikram Ul; Khan, Mahmood Ali; Muneer, Bushra; Hussain, Zahid; Afzal, Sumra; Majeed, Sana; Rashid, Naeem; Javed, Muhammad Mohsin; et al. (2012). "Cloning, characterization and molecular docking of a highly thermostable β-1,4-glucosidase from Thermotoga petrophila". Biotechnology Letters. 34 (9): 1703–1709. doi:10.1007/s10529-012-0953-0. ISSN 0141-5492. PMID 22714267. S2CID 17477338.
  • Souza, Tatiana A.C.B.; Santos, Camila R.; Souza, Angelica R.; Oldiges, Daiane P.; Ruller, Roberto; Prade, Rolf A.; Squina, Fabio M.; Murakami, Mario T. (2011). "Structure of a novel thermostable GH51 α-L-arabinofuranosidase from Thermotoga petrophila RKU-1". Protein Science. 20 (9): 1632–1637. doi:10.1002/pro.693. ISSN 0961-8368. PMC 3190157. PMID 21796714.
  • Santo, Sotaro; Yamada, Yosuke; Shinkawa, Tomoki; Kato, Satoru; Okada, Takashi; Higashibata, Hiroki; Fujiwara, Shinsuke (November 2011). "Mutations to create thermostable reverse transcriptase with bacterial family A DNA polymerase from Thermotoga petrophila K4". Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 113 (3): 315–321. doi:10.1016/j.jbiosc.2011.11.001. PMID 22143068.


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