Aciduliprofundum

Aciduliprofundum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Thermoplasmata
Order:	"Aciduliprofundales"
Family:	"Aciduliprofundaceae"
Genus:	"Ca. Aciduliprofundum" Reysenbach et al. 2006
Type species
"Ca. Aciduliprofundum boonei" Reysenbach et al. 2006
Species
"Ca. A. boonei"
Synonyms
DHVE2

Aciduliprofundum is a genus of the Euryarchaeota.[1]

A. boonei, is an extremophile, a thermoacidophilic archaeon that lives in oceanic deep-sea hydrothermal vents, that has been shown to produce antibiotics against common pathogenic bacteria.[2] It is one of a group of euryarchaeotes classed as DHVE2 – Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Euryarchaeota 2, and the only one to be isolated.[3] It is extremely widespread and yet has not been able to be cultivated.[4] For this reason it may sometimes have the taxonomic addition of Candidatus to its name - meaning a candidate for, until proven.

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Aciduliprofundum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
2. "Life's extremists may be an untapped source of antibacterial drugs".
3. Flores, GE; Wagner, ID; Liu, Y; Reysenbach, AL (2012). "Distribution, abundance, and diversity patterns of the thermoacidophilic "deep-sea hydrothermal vent euryarchaeota 2"". Frontiers in Microbiology. 3: 47. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2012.00047. PMC 3282477. PMID 22363325.
4. Reysenbach, AL; Liu, Y; Banta, AB; Beveridge, TJ; Kirshtein, JD; Schouten, S; Tivey, MK; Von Damm, KL; Voytek, MA (27 July 2006). "A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents" (PDF). Nature. 442 (7101): 444–7. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..444R. doi:10.1038/nature04921. hdl:1912/1408. PMID 16871216. S2CID 4315587.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Cavalier-Smith, T (2002). "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52 (Pt 1): 7–76. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-1-7. PMID 11837318.
• Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML (1990). "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 87 (12): 4576–4579. Bibcode:1990PNAS...87.4576W. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMC 54159. PMID 2112744.

Scientific books

• Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov.". In DR Boone, RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.