Thermococcus peptonophilus

Thermococcus peptonophilus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Thermococci
Order:	Thermococcales
Family:	Thermococcaceae
Genus:	Thermococcus
Species:	T. peptonophilus
Binomial name
Thermococcus peptonophilus González et al. 1996

Thermococcus peptonophilus is a fast-growing hyperthermophilic archaeon. It is coccus-shaped, obligately anaerobic and about 0.7–2 μm in diameter.[1] It is a strict anaerobe and grows exclusively on complex substrates, such as peptone, casein, tryptone, and yeast extract. It cannot use carbon dioxide as a source of carbon. Although it can grow somewhat in the absence of elemental sulfur, it prefers sulfur.[2]

References

1. González, Juan M.; Kato, C.; Horikoshi, Koki (1995). "Thermococcus peptonophilus sp. nov., a fast-growing, extremely thermophilic archaebacterium isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents". Archives of Microbiology. 164 (3): 159–164. doi:10.1007/s002030050249. ISSN 0302-8933. PMID 7545383. S2CID 31681070.
2. K. Horikoshi; K. Tsujii (2012-12-16). Extremophiles in Deep-Sea Environments. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 119. ISBN 978-4431679257. Retrieved 2016-10-01.

Further reading

Lee, Jong II; Kim, Yun Jae; Bae, Heejin; Cho, Sung Suk; Lee, Jung-Hyun; Kwon, Suk-Tae (March 2010). "Biochemical Properties and PCR Performance of a Family B DNA Polymerase from Hyperthermophilic Euryarchaeon Thermococcus peptonophilus". Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 160 (6): 1585–1599. doi:10.1007/s12010-009-8658-0. PMID 19440663. S2CID 29028533.

• Canganella, Francesco, et al. "Pressure and temperature effects on growth and viability of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus peptonophilus."Archives of Microbiology 168.1 (1997): 1-7.
• Horikoshi, Koki. "Alkaliphiles: some applications of their products for biotechnology." Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 63.4 (1999): 735–750.
• Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 3: Archaea. Bacteria: Firmicutes, Actinomycetes. Vol. 3. Springer, 2006. *Martí, Joan, and Gerald Ernst, eds. Volcanoes and the Environment. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Horikoshi, Koki, and Kaoru Tsujii, eds. Extremophiles in deep-sea environments. Springer, 1999.

External links

• "Thermococcus peptonophilus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• LPSN
• WORMS
• Type strain of Thermococcus peptonophilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase