''Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum'' is a species of
autotrophic,
sulphur
Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...
-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea
hydrothermal vent
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspot ...
. It is the type species of its genus, being
thermophilic, anaerobic,
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...
,
motile and rod-shaped, with type strain BSA
T (= DSM 11699
T).
References
Further reading
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*Kadish, Karl M., Kevin M. Smith, and
Roger Guilard
Roger Guilard is a French chemist. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France where he is a member of the Institute of Molecular Chemistry of the University of Burgundy.
Career
Guilard received the "Agréga ...
. "Handbook of porphyrin science." World Scientific: Singapore 2012 (2010): 1-25.
External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Aquificota
Bacteria described in 1998
Thermophiles
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