Thermoproteales

Thermoproteales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Proteoarchaeota
Superphylum: TACK group
Phylum: Thermoproteota
Class: Thermoprotei
Order: Thermoproteales
Zillig & Stetter, 1982
Families
Synonyms
  • "Thermocladiaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
  • Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021

Thermoproteales are an order of archaeans in the class Thermoprotei.[1] They are the only organisms known to lack the SSB proteins, instead possessing the protein ThermoDBP that has displaced them. The rRNA genes of these organisms contain multiple introns, which can be homing endonuclease encoding genes, and their presence can impact the binding of "universal" 16S rRNA primers often used in environmental sequencing surveys.[2]

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Thermoproteales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ Jay ZJ and Inskeep WP. (July 2015). "The distribution, diversity, and importance of 16S rRNA gene introns in the order Thermoproteales". Biology Direct. 10 (35): 35. doi:10.1186/s13062-015-0065-6. PMC 4496867. PMID 26156036.