Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus

Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus, formerly called Thermobacteroides acetoethylicus, is a species of thermophilic, non-spore-forming bacteria.[2][3]

Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:
Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus:
Thermoanaerobacter
Species:
T. acetoethylicus
Binomial name
Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus
(Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1983) Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993[1]

T. acetoethylicus was first isolated from Octopus Spring in Yellowstone National Park. The bacteria produces ethanol and acetic acid as fermentation products, but does not produce lactic acid. The growth range of T. ethanolicus is 40-80°C and pH 5.5-8.5, with the optimum growth temperature at around 65°C.[2] The species was originally placed in its own new genus of Thermobacteroides in 1981. In 1993, based on further study, the species was moved into the genus Thermoanaerobacter.[3]

References
  1. Parte, A.C. "Thermoanaerobacter". www.bacterio.net.
  2. Arie Ben-Bassat and J. G. Zeikus. Thermobacteroides acetoethylicus gen. nov. and spec. nov., a new chemoorganotrophic, anaerobic, thermophilic bacterium. Archives of Microbiology Volume 128, Number 4 (1981), 365-370, DOI: 10.1007/BF00405914.
  3. Fred A. Rainey and Erko Stackebrandt. Transfer of the Type Species of the Genus Thermobacteroides to the Genus Thermoanaerobacter as Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus(Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1981) comb. nov., Description of Coprothermobacter gen. nov., and Reclassification of Thermobacteroides proteolyticus as Coprothermobacter proteolyticus(Ollivier et al. 1985) comb. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. October 1993 vol. 43 no. 4 857-859. doi: 10.1099/00207713-43-4-857
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