Thermochromatium Explained

Thermochromatium is a Gram-negative and thermophilic genus of bacteria from the family of Chromatiaceae with one known species (Thermochromatium tepidum).^{[1] [2] [3]} The habitats of Thermochromatium tepidum are hot springs which contain sulfide.^{[3] [2]} Thermochromatium tepidum was first isolated from the Mammoth Hot Springs from the Yellowstone National Park in the United States.^[4]

Further reading

• Book: Klotz . Martin G. . Bryant . Donald A. . Fredrickson . Jim K. . Inskeep . William P. . Kühl . Michael . Systems biology and ecology of microbial mat communities . 2016 . Frontiers Media SA . 9782889197934 . en.
• Book: Reysenbach . Anna-Louise . Voytek . Mary . Mancinelli . Rocco . Thermophiles: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution . 2001 . Springer Science & Business Media . 9780306461651 . en.
• Miki . Kunio . Wang-Otomo . Zheng-Yu . Kawakami . Tomoaki . Hirano . Yu . Takeda . Kazuki . Yu . Long-Jiang . Niwa . Satomi . Structure of the LH1–RC complex from Thermochromatium tepidum at 3.0 Å . Nature . April 2014 . 508 . 7495 . 228–232 . 10.1038/nature13197 . 24670637 . 2014Natur.508..228N . 205238211 . en . 1476-4687.
• Ma . F . Kimura . Y . Yu . LJ . Wang . P . Ai . XC . Wang . ZY . Zhang . JP . Specific Ca2+-binding motif in the LH1 complex from photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum as revealed by optical spectroscopy and structural modeling. . The FEBS Journal . March 2009 . 276 . 6 . 1739–49 . 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.06905.x . 19226412. 21299789 . free .
• Shi . Ying . Zhao . Ning-Jiu . Wang . Peng . Fu . Li-Min . Yu . Long-Jiang . Zhang . Jian-Ping . Wang-Otomo . Zheng-Yu . Thermal Adaptability of the Light-Harvesting Complex 2 from Thermochromatium tepidum: Temperature-Dependent Excitation Transfer Dynamics . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B . 12 November 2015 . 119 . 47 . 14871–14879 . 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09023. 26513270 .

Notes and References

1. Thermochromatium . www.uniprot.org .
2. Book: Brenner . Don J. . Krieg . Noel R. . Staley . James R. . Bergey's Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria . 2007 . Springer Science & Business Media . 9780387280226 . en.
3. Madigan . M. T. . Chromatium tepidum sp. nov., a Thermophilic Photosynthetic Bacterium of the Family Chromatiaceae . International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology . 1 April 1986 . 36 . 2 . 222–227 . 10.1099/00207713-36-2-222. free .
4. Book: Hallenbeck . Patrick C. . Modern Topics in the Phototrophic Prokaryotes: Environmental and Applied Aspects . 2017 . Springer . 9783319462615 . en.