Brockia lithotrophica is a thermophilic bacterium from the genus of Brockia which has been isolated from a sediment-water mixture from a hot spring in Uzon Caldera in Russia.[1][3][4][5]
This bacterium is rod shaped, spore-forming and obligate anaerobe. It is lithoautotroph and grows on a mineral medium with molecular sulfur, thiosulfate or polysulfide; it has optimal growth temperature in the range of 60 to 65 °C (140 to 149 °F) for pH 6.5, but it is able to grow between 46 °C (115 °F) and 78 °C (172 °F) and pH ranging from 5.5 to 8.5.[6]
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^Perevalova, A. A.; Kublanov, I. V.; Baslerov, R. V.; Zhang, G.; Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A. (6 April 2012). "Brockia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium from a terrestrial hot spring". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 2): 479–483. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.041285-0. PMID22493174.