Fervidobacterium islandicum

Fervidobacterium islandicum is a species of extremely thermophilic anaerobic bacteria, first isolated from an Icelandic hot spring. Its cells are Gram-negative motile rods, about 1.8 μm in length, and 0.6 μm in width.[1]

Fervidobacterium islandicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Thermotogae
Order:
Thermotogales
Family:
Thermotogaceae
Genus:
Fervidobacterium
Species:
F. islandicum
Binomial name
Fervidobacterium islandicum
Huber et al. 1991

References
  1. Huber, Robert; Woese, Carl R.; Langworthy, Thomas A.; Kristjansson, Jakob K.; Stetter, Karl O. (1990). "Fervidobacterium islandicum sp. nov., a new extremely thermophilic eubacterium belonging to the ?Thermotogales?". Archives of Microbiology. 154 (2): 105–111. doi:10.1007/BF00423318. ISSN 0302-8933.

Further reading
  • Ravot, Gilles, et al. "L-Alanine production from glucose fermentation by hyperthermophilic members of the domains Bacteria and Archaea: a remnant of an ancestral metabolism?." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62.7 (1996): 2657-2659.
  • Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.
  • Gödde C, Sahm K, Brouns SJ, Kluskens LD, van der Oost J, de Vos WM, et al. (2005). "Cloning and expression of islandisin, a new thermostable subtilisin from Fervidobacterium islandicum, in Escherichia coli". Appl Environ Microbiol. 71 (7): 3951–8. doi:10.1128/AEM.71.7.3951-3958.2005. PMC 1168981. PMID 16000809.
  • Nam GW, Lee DW, Lee HS, Lee NJ, Kim BC, Choe EA, et al. (2002). "Native-feather degradation by Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1, a newly isolated keratinase-producing thermophilic anaerobe". Arch Microbiol. 178 (6): 538–47. doi:10.1007/s00203-002-0489-0. PMID 12420177.
  • Jabbour, Dina; Klippel, Barbara; Antranikian, Garabed (2011). "A novel thermostable and glucose-tolerant β-glucosidase from Fervidobacterium islandicum". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 93 (5): 1947–1956. doi:10.1007/s00253-011-3406-0. ISSN 0175-7598. PMID 22146852.
  • de la Tour, Claire Bouthier; Portemer, Christiane; Forterre, Patrick; Huber, Robert; Duguet, Michel (1993). "ATP-independent DNA topoisomerase from Fervidobacterium islandicum". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 1216 (2): 213–220. doi:10.1016/0167-4781(93)90147-6. ISSN 0167-4781. PMID 8241262.


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