Thermomicrobia

Thermomicrobia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Thermomicrobiota
Garrity and Holt 2021[2]
Class: Thermomicrobia
Garrity and & Holt 2002[1]
Orders
Synonyms
  • Thermomicrobia:
    • "Thermomicrobia" Garrity and Holt 2001
    • "Thermomicrobiota" Whitman et al. 2018
    • "Thermomicrobaeota" Oren et al. 2015

The Thermomicrobia is a group of thermophilic green non-sulfur bacteria. Based on species Thermomicrobium roseum (type species) and Sphaerobacter thermophilus, this bacteria class has the following description:[3][4]

The class Thermomicrobia subdivides into two orders with validly published names: Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2001 and Sphaerobacterales Stackebrandt, Rainey and Ward-Rainey 1997. Gram negative. Pleomorphic, non-motile, non-spore-forming rods. Non-sporulating. No diamino acid present. No peptidoglycan in significant amount. Atypical proteinaceous cell walls. Hyper-thermophilic, optimum growth temperature at 70-75 °C. Obligatory aerobic and chemoorganotrophic. [note 1]

As thermophilic bacteria, members of this class are usually found in environments which are distant from human activity.[5] However, they have features like improved growth in antibiotics and CO oxidizing activity, making them interesting topics of research (e.g. for biotechnology application).

  1. ^ Garrity GM, Holt JG. (2001). "Class I. Thermomicrobia class. nov.". In Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM. (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria) (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. pp. 447–450.
  2. ^ Oren A, Garrity GM (2021). "Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 71 (10): 5056. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005056. PMID 34694987.
  3. ^ Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Phylum BVII. Thermomicrobia phy. nov.". In Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1, The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria. New York: Springer.
  4. ^ Hugenholtz P, Stackebrandt E (November 2004). "Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (Pt 6): 2049–51. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.03028-0. PMID 15545432.
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