Campylobacterota

Campylobacterota
Campylobacter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Campylobacterota
Waite et al. 2021[1]
Classes
Synonyms
  • "Campylobacterota" Waite et al. 2018
  • "Epsilonbacteraeota" (sic) Waite et al. 2017[2]
  • Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

Campylobacterota are a phylum of Gram-negative bacteria.[3] Only a few genera have been characterized, including the curved to spirilloid Wolinella, Helicobacter, and Campylobacter. Until the 2021 revision of bacterial taxonomy by the ICSP,[4] the entire phylum was classified within the Proteobacteria (synonym Pseudomonadota) as the Epsilonproteobacteria.[5]

Most of the known species inhabit the digestive tracts of animals and serve as symbionts (Wolinella spp. in cattle) or pathogens (Helicobacter spp. in the stomach, Campylobacter spp. in the duodenum). However, numerous environmental sequences and isolates of Campylobacterota have been recovered from hydrothermal vents and cold seep habitats. Examples of isolates include Sulfurimonas autotrophica,[6] Sulfurimonas paralvinellae,[7] Sulfurovum lithotrophicum[8] and Nautilia profundicola.[9] A member of the phylum Campylobacterota occurs as an endosymbiont in the large gills of the deepwater sea snail Alviniconcha hessleri.[10]

Many Campylobacterota are motile with flagella.[11] The Campylobacterota found at deep-sea hydrothermal vents characteristically exhibit chemolithotrophy, meeting their energy needs by oxidizing reduced sulfur, formate, or hydrogen coupled to the reduction of nitrate or oxygen.[12] Autotrophic Campylobacterota use the reverse Krebs cycle to fix carbon dioxide into biomass, a pathway originally thought to be of little environmental significance. The oxygen sensitivity of this pathway is consistent with their microaerophilic or anaerobic niche in these environments, and their likely evolution in the Mesoproterozoic oceans,[13] which are thought to have been sulfidic with low levels of oxygen available from cyanobacterial photosynthesis.[14]

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