Methanothermus fervidus explained

Methanothermus fervidus is a species of methanogen.^[1] It is notable for being extremely thermophilic. Its cells are rod-shaped; its complex cell envelope exhibits two layers, each about 12 nm thick; the inner represents the pseudomurein sacculus and the outer a protein envelope. The type strain is Methanothermus fervidus Stetter 1982. The cells are motile, strictly anaerobic and stain Gram positive. They can grow at temperatures as high as 97 °C. Strain V24S^T can subsist on carbon dioxide and hydrogen alone. Its genome is 1,243,342 bp in length.^[2]

Further reading

• Sandman, Kathleen. etal. HMf, a DNA-binding protein isolated from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Methanothermus fervidus, is most closely related to histones. PNAS. 1990. 87. 15. 5788–5791. 10.1073/pnas.87.15.5788. 2377617. 54413. 1990PNAS...87.5788S. free.
• Sandman, Kathleen. etal. Growth-phase-dependent synthesis of histones in the archaeon Methanothermus fervidus. PNAS. 1994. 91. 26. 12624–12628. 10.1073/pnas.91.26.12624. 7809089. 45491. 1994PNAS...9112624S. free.
• Steigerwald V. J. . Beckler G. S. . Reeve J. N. . 1990 . Conservation of hydrogenase and polyferredoxin structures in the hyperthermophilic archaebacterium Methanothermus fervidus . Journal of Bacteriology . 172 . 8. 4715–4718 . 10.1128/jb.172.8.4715-4718.1990. 2115877 . 213312 . free .
• Anderson, Iain. etal. Complete genome sequence of Methanothermus fervidus type strain (V24S(T)). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2010. 3. 3. 315–324. 10.4056/sigs.1283367. 21304736. 3035299.

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Methanothermus fervidus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. 10.1016/s0721-9571(81)80038-5. Methanothermus fervidus, sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic methanogen isolated from an Icelandic hot spring . 1981 . Stetter . Karl O. . Thomm . Michael . Winter . Josef . Wildgruber . Gertrud . Huber . Harald . Zillig . Wolfram . Jané-Covic . Davorin . König . Helmut . Palm . Peter . Wunderl . Simon . Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie Mikrobiologie und Hygiene: I. Abt. Originale C: Allgemeine, Angewandte und Ökologische Mikrobiologie . 2 . 2 . 166–178 .
2. Iain Anderson. Olivier Duplex Ngatchou Djao. Monica Misra. Olga Chertkov. Matt Nolan. Susan Lucas. Alla Lapidus. Tijana Glavina Del Rio. Hope Tice. Jan-Fang Cheng. Roxanne Tapia. Cliff Han. Lynne Goodwin. Sam Pitluck. Konstantinos Liolios. Natalia Ivanova. Konstantinos Mavromatis. Natalia Mikhailova. Amrita Pati. Evelyne Brambilla. Amy Chen. Krishna Palaniappan. Miriam Land. Loren Hauser. Yun-Juan Chang. Cynthia D. Jeffries. Johannes Sikorski. Stefan Spring. Manfred Rohde. Konrad Eichinger. Harald Huber. Reinhard Wirth. Markus Göker. John C. Detter. Tanja Woyke. James Bristow. Jonathan A. Eisen. Victor Markowitz. Philip Hugenholtz. Hans-Peter Klenk. Nikos C. Kyrpides. 4. Complete genome sequence of Methanothermus fervidus type strain (V24S^T). 3035299. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 10.4056/sigs.1283367. 2010-12-31. 21304736. 3. 3. 315–24.