Pyrococcus abyssi explained

Pyrococcus abyssi is a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the North Fiji Basin at 2000m (7,000feet). It is anaerobic, sulfur-metabolizing, gram-negative, coccus-shaped and highly motile. Its optimum growth temperature is 96C. Its type strain is GE5 (CNCM I-1302).^[1] Pyrococcus abyssi has been used as a model organism in studies of DNA polymerase.^[2] This species can also grow at high cell densities in bioreactors.^[3]

Further reading

• Cohen GN . Barbe V . Flament D. etal . An integrated analysis of the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi . . 47 . 6 . 1495–512 . March 2003 . 12622808 . 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03381.x. free .
• Gueguen Y . Rolland JL . Lecompte O. etal . Characterization of two DNA polymerases from the hyperthermophilic euryarchaeon Pyrococcus abyssi . . 268 . 22 . 5961–9 . November 2001 . 11722585 . 10.1046/j.0014-2956.2001.02550.x. free . Cohen, Georges N., et al. "An integrated analysis of the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi." Molecular microbiology 47.6 (2003): 1495–1512.
• Castillo-Lizardo. Melissa. Henneke. Ghislaine. Viguera. Enrique. Replication slippage of the thermophilic DNA polymerases B and D from the Euryarchaeota Pyrococcus abyssi. Frontiers in Microbiology. August 2014. 5. 403. 403. 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00403. 25177316. 4134008. free .

External links

• • Type strain of Pyrococcus abyssi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. 4. Erauso. Gaël. Reysenbach. Anna-Louise. Godfroy. Anne. Meunier. Jean-Roch. Crump. Byron. Partensky. Frédéric. Baross. JohnA. Marteinsson. Viggo. Barbier. Georges. Pace. NormanR. Prieur. Daniel. Pyrococcus abyssi sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Archives of Microbiology. 160. 5. 1993. 0302-8933. 10.1007/BF00252219. 6454891 .
2. Book: Zvi Kelman. Andrew F. Gardner. Melissa Castillo-Lizardo. Ghislaine Henneke. Enrique Viguera. Replication slippage of the thermophilic DNA polymerases B and D from the Euryarchaeota Pyrococcus abyssi. 58. 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00403. 25177316. 4134008. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 2014-08-07. 9782889194551. Frontiers Media SA. free .
3. Book: Yves Le Gal. A. Muller-Feuga. Anne Godfroy. Niel Raven. Richard Sharp. Marine Microorganisms for Industry. Continuous Culture of Pyrococcus abyssi strain ST549 in a gas-lift bioreactor. https://books.google.com/books?id=9CnPuCmk0gkC&dq=%22Pyrococcus+abyssi%E2%80%8E%22&pg=PA179. 179. 1997-01-01. 2016-09-15. Editions Quae. 9782905434944.