Thermofilum

<i>Thermofilum</i>

Thermofilum

Genus of archaea


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Thermofilum is a genus of archaea in the family Thermofilaceae.[1]

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. adornatum Zayulina et al. 2020

T. pendens Zillig & Gierl 1983


References

  1. See the NCBI webpage on Thermofilales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  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. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 6 December 2021.

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