Pyrococcus woesei explained

Pyrococcus woesei is an ultra-thermophilic marine archaeon. It is sulfur-reducing and grows optimally between 100 and 103 °C. Its cells have a roughly spherical, elongated and constricted appearance, similar to Thermococcus celer. Frequently, they occur as diploforms. Cells grown on solid supports have dense tufts of flagella or pili attached to one pole.^[1]

Kanoksilapatham et al. propose P. woesei as a subspecies of P. furiosus.^[2]

It is named after the discoverer of archaea as a whole - Carl Woese

Further reading

• 4 . Ghasemi A . Salmanian AH . Sadeghifard N. Salarian AA . Gholi MK . Cloning, expression and purification of Pwo polymerase from Pyrococcus woesei . . 3 . 3 . 118–22 . September 2011 . 22347593 . 3279813 .
• 4. Xiong. Ai-Sheng. Peng. Ri-He. Zhuang. Jing. Li. Xian. Xue. Yong. Liu. Jin-Ge. Gao. Feng. Cai. Bin. Chen. Jian-Min. Yao. Quan-Hong. Directed evolution of a beta-galactosidase from Pyrococcus woesei resulting in increased thermostable beta-glucuronidase activity. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 18 Sep 2007. 77. 3. 569–578. 10.1007/s00253-007-1182-7. 17876575. 24841560 .
• Grzybowska. Beata. Szweda. Piotr. Synowiecki. Jozef. Cloning of the thermostable alpha-amylase gene from Pyrococcus woesei in Escherichia coli: Isolation and some properties of the enzyme. Molecular Biotechnology. February 2004. 26. 2. 101–109. 10.1385/MB:26:2:101. 14764935 . 84002357 .

External links

• • WORMS entry
• LPSN
• Type strain of Pyrococcus woesei at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. 4. Zillig. Wolfram. Holz. Ingelore. Klenk. Hans-Peter. Trent. Jonathan. Wunderl. Simon. Janekovic. Davorin. Imsel. Erwin. Haas. Birgit. Pyrococcus woesei, sp. nov., an ultra-thermophilic marine archaebacterium, representing a novel order, Thermococcales. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 9. 1–2. 1987. 62–70. 0723-2020. 10.1016/S0723-2020(87)80057-7.
2. Kanoksilapatham W . González JM . Maeder DL . DiRuggiero J . Robb FT . 4 . October 2004 . A proposal to rename the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus woesei as Pyrococcus furiosus subsp. woesei . Archaea . 1 . 4 . 277–83 . 10.1155/2004/513563 . 2685572 . 15810438 . free.