| Thermoanaerobacter brockii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Thermoanaerobacterales |
| Family: | Thermoanaerobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Thermoanaerobacter |
| Species: | T. brockii
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| Binomial name | |
| Thermoanaerobacter brockii (Zeikus et al. 1983) Lee et al. 1993[1]
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Thermoanaerobacter brockii, formerly Thermoanaerobium brockii, is a thermophilic, anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium.
The bacterium was first isolated from Yellowstone National Park. The growth range for the organism is 35 to 80°C and pH 5.5-9.5, with optimal growth conditions at 65-70°C and pH 7.5. T. brockii stains Gram-positive.[2] While originally thought to be non-sporeforming bacteria, it was later discovered that the organism produced spores that can survive heating at 115 °C for 80 min.[3] The species was originally classified as Thermoanaerobium brockii, but further analysis put the bacteria into the genus Thermoanaerobacter.[4] The species is named "in honor of T.D. Brock, a pioneer in the golden era of thermophily."[2]
- ^ Parte, A.C. "Thermoanaerobacter". LPSN.
- ^ a b J. G. Zeikus, P. W. Hegge and Mary Ann Anderson. Thermoanaerobium brockii gen. nov. and sp. nov., a new chemoorganotrophic, caldoactive, anaerobic bacterium. Archives of Microbiology. Volume 122, Number 1 (1979), 41-48, DOI: 10.1007/BF00408044.
- ^ Gregory M. Cook, Peter H. Janssen, Hugh W. Morgan. Endospore Formation by Thermoanaerobiumbrockii HTD4. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. Volume 14, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 240–244.
- ^ Yong-Eok Lee, Mahendra K. Jain, Chanyong Lee, and J. Gregory Zeikus. Taxonomic Distinction of Saccharolytic Thermophilic Anaerobes: Description of Thermoanaerobacterium xylanolyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., and Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum gen. nov., sp. nov.; Reclassification of Thermoanaerobium brockii, Clostridium thermosulfurogenes, and Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum E100-69 as Thermoanaerobacter brockii comb. nov., Thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes comb. nov., and Thermoanaerobacter thermohydrosulfuricus comb. nov., Respectively; and Transfer of Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum 39E to Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. January 1993 vol. 43 no. 1 41-51. doi: 10.1099/00207713-43-1-41.