Thermococcus stetteri

Thermococcus stetteri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Thermococci
Order:	Thermococcales
Family:	Thermococcaceae
Genus:	Thermococcus
Species:	T. stetteri
Binomial name
Thermococcus stetteri Miroshnichenko 1990

Thermococcus stetteri is an extremely thermophilic, marine, sulfur-metabolizing archaebacterium. It is anaerobic, its cells being irregular cocci 1 to 2 μm in diameter. Of the strains first isolated, two were motile due to a tuft of flagella, while the other two strains were nonmotile.[1] Its type strain is K-3 (DSM 5262). It can grow on starch, pectin, and peptides, but not amino acids.[2]

References

1. Miroshnichenko, M.L.; Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A.; Neuner, A.; Kostrikina, N.A.; Chernych, N.A.; Alekseev, V.A. (1989). "Thermococcus stetteri sp. nov., a New Extremely Thermophilic Marine Sulfur-Metabolizing Archaebacterium". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 12 (3): 257–262. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(89)80071-2. ISSN 0723-2020.
2. Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (10 October 2006). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 73. ISBN 0387254935. Retrieved 5 October 2016.

Further reading

• Zorin, Nikolay A.; Medina, Milagros; Pusheva, Margarita A.; Gogotov, Ivan N.; Cammack, Richard (1996). "Hydrogenase from the thermophilic bacterium Thermococcus stetteri: isolation and characterisation of EPR-detectable redox centres". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 142 (1): 71–76. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08410.x. ISSN 0378-1097.
• Gongadze, Georgy M.; Kostyukova, Alla S.; Miroshnichenko, Margarita L.; Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Elizaveta A. (1993). "Regular proteinaceous layers of Thermococcus stetteri cell envelope". Current Microbiology. 27 (1): 5–9. doi:10.1007/BF01576826. ISSN 0343-8651. S2CID 24797998.

External links

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