Thermithiobacillus tepidarius (from the Latin tepidarium; a warm bath fed by natural thermal water) is a member of the Acidithiobacillia isolated from the thermal groundwaters of the Roman Baths at Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom.[2] It was previously placed in the genus Thiobacillus.[3] The organism is a moderate thermophile, 43–45 °C (109–113 °F), and an obligate aerobic chemolithotrophic autotroph. Despite having an optimum pH of 6.0–7.5, growth can continue to an acid medium of pH 4.8.[2] Growth can only occur on reduced inorganic sulfur compounds (thiosulfate, polythionates from trithionate to octathionate pace pentathionate, sulfide) and elementary sulfur, but unlike some species in other genus of the same family, Acidithiobacillus, Thermithiobacillus spp. are unable to oxidise ferrous iron or iron-containing minerals.[3][4]
| Thermithiobacillus tepidarius | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Acidithiobacillia |
| Order: | Acidithiobacillales |
| Family: | Thermithiobacillaceae |
| Genus: | Thermithiobacillus |
| Species: | T. tepidarius
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| Binomial name | |
| Thermithiobacillus tepidarius (Wood and Kelly 1985) Kelly and Wood 2000[1]
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| Type strain | |
| DSM 3134T | |
The genome sequence was completed in 2016.[4]
References
edit- ^ Parte, A.C. "Thermithiobacillus". LPSN.
- ^ a b Wood, A.P. & Kelly, D.P. (1986). "Chemolithotrophic metabolism of the newly-isolated moderately thermophilic, obligately autotrophic Thiobacillus tepidarius". Archives of Microbiology. 144 (1): 71–77. doi:10.1007/BF00454959. S2CID 22219334.[1]
- ^ a b Kelly & Wood (2000). "Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50 (2): 489–500. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-2-511. PMID 10758854.
- ^ a b Boden (2016). "Permanent draft genome of Thermithiobacillus tepidarius DSM 3134T, a moderately thermophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic member of the Acidithiobacillia". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11: 74. doi:10.1186/s40793-016-0188-0. PMC 5037610. PMID 27708749.
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