Fuchs, Tanja and Huber, Harald and Teiner, Kristina and Burggraf, Siegfried and Stetter, Karl O. (1996) Metallosphaera prunae, sp nov, a novel metal-mobilizing, thermoacidophilic archaeum, isolated from a uranium mine in Germany. SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY, 18 (4). pp. 560-566. ISSN 0723-2020
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A novel coccoid thermoacidophilic metal-mobilizing archaeum has been isolated from a smoldering slag heap of a uranium mine in Thuringen, Germany. The new strain grows between 55 degrees C and 80 degrees C by oxidation of S degrees, pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite or molecular hydrogen. Alternatively yeast extract, peptone, and beef extract are used as energy sources during organotrophic growth. The GC-content of its DNA is 46 mol%. The cell wall is composed of S-layer protein complexes with P3 symmetry, and, depending on the growth conditions, of an additional fibrillar surface coat. On the basis of the 16S rRNA sequence the new isolate is a member of the genus Metallosphaera, No significant DNA homology is detectable with the type strain of Metallosphaera sedula. Therefore, we describe the new isolate as the second species of this genus, which we name Metallosphaera prunae (type strain: Ron 12/II; DSM 10039).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SULFUR-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; GEN-NOV; ENZYMATIC AMPLIFICATION; ARCHAEBACTERIA; SULFOLOBUS; REPRESENTS; DNA; Metallosphaera; Sulfolobales; Archaea; leaching; thermoacidophilic; chemolithotrophic |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie > Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie (Archaeenzentrum) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2023 10:04 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2023 10:04 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/51985 |
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