PVC superphylum

PVC superphylum
Chlamydia trachomatis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(temporary)
Domain: Bacteria
Clade: Hydrobacteria
Superphylum: PVC superphylum
Phyla

Chlamydiota
Kiritimatiellota
Lentisphaerota
Planctomycetota
Verrucomicrobiota
"Ca. Hydrogenedentes"
"Ca. Aureabacteria"
"Ca. Omnitrophica"

Synonyms

Planctobacteria Cavalier-Smith, 1987[1]

The PVC superphylum is a superphylum of bacteria named after its three important members, Planctomycetota, Verrucomicrobiota, and Chlamydiota.[2][3] Cavalier-Smith postulated that the PVC bacteria probably lost or reduced their peptidoglycan cell wall twice.[4] It has been hypothesised that a member of the PVC clade might have been the host cell in the endosymbiotic event that gave rise to the first proto-eukaryotic cell.[5][6]

Cavalier-Smith calls the same group Planctobacteria and considers it a phylum. However, this is not followed by the larger scientific community.[7] In the Cavalier-Smith bacterial megaclassification, it is within the bacterial Gracilicutes infra-kingdom and comprises the phyla Chlamydiota, Lentisphaerota, Planctomycetota, Verrucomicrobiota.[4][8]

PVC superphylum[9][10][2][11]
PVC
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  8. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (2006). "Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses". Biol. Direct. 1 (1): 19. doi:10.1186/1745-6150-1-19. PMC 1586193. PMID 16834776.
  9. ^ Rappe, M. S.; Giovannoni, S. J. (2003). "The Uncultured Microbial Majority". Annual Review of Microbiology. 57: 369–394. doi:10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090759. PMID 14527284.
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  11. ^ Stefan Spring, Boyke Bunk, Cathrin Spröer, Peter Schumann, Manfred Rohde, Brian J Tindall & Hans-Peter Klenk, (2016). Characterization of the first cultured representative of Verrucomicrobia subdivision 5 indicates the proposal of a novel phylum. Nature.