Methylacidiphilum infernorum
| Methylacidiphilum infernorum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | |
| Phylum: | |
| Class: | Unclassified
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| Order: | Methylacidiphilales
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| Family: | Methylacidiphilaceae
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| Genus: | Methylacidiphilum
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| Species: | M. infernorum
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| Binomial name | |
| Methylacidiphilum infernorum Hou et al. 2008
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| Type strain | |
| Isolate V4 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Methylokorus infernorum Dunfield et al. 2007 | |
Methylacidiphilum infernorum is an extremely acidophilic methanotrophic aerobic bacteria first isolated and described in 2007 growing on soil and sediment on Hell's Gate, New Zealand.[1][2][3] Similar organisms have also been isolated from geothermal sites on Italy and Russia.
A polyextremophile, these non-motile rods grows optimally at pH between 2.0 and 2.5 and temperature of 60 °C. It is a methanotrophic obligated bacteria that grows at 25% (v/v) of methane in air. It is also very dependent on carbon dioxide concentrations to grow, optimally at 8% (v/v) CO2 in air.[1]
Due to its classification in the phylum Verrucomicrobiota and its extreme acidophilic phenotype M. infernorum is unique between all known methanotrophs.[1]
- ^ a b c Peter D, et al. (2007). "Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia". Nature. 450 (7171): 879–882. Bibcode:2007Natur.450..879D. doi:10.1038/nature06411. PMID 18004300. S2CID 4305258.
- ^ Noel R. Krieg; Wolfgang Ludwig; William Whitman; Brian P. Hedlund; Bruce J. Paster; James T. Staley; Naomi Ward; Daniel Brown, eds. (2011). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 4: The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 795–6. ISBN 978-0-387-68572-4.
- ^ Malgorzata Pawlowska (22 April 2014). Mitigation of Landfill Gas Emissions. CRC Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-415-63077-1.