Methanopyrus
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| Methanopyrus kandleri | |
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| Genus: | Methanopyrus
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| Methanopyrus Kurr et al. 1992
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In taxonomy, Methanopyrus is a genus of the Methanopyraceae.[1]
Methanopyrus is a genus of methanogen, with a single described species, M. kandleri. It is a hyperthermophile, discovered on the wall of a black smoker from the Gulf of California at a depth of 2000 m, at temperatures of 84-110 °C. Strain 116 discovered in black smoker fluid of the Kairei hydrothermal field, it can survive and reproduce at 122 °C.[2] It lives in an hydrogen-carbon dioxide rich environment, and like other methanogens reduces the former to methane. It is placed among the Euryarchaeota, in its own class.
References
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanopyrus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ Takai K, Nakamura K, Toki T, Tsunogai U, Miyazaki M, Miyazaki J, Hirayama H, Nakagawa S, Nunoura T, Horikoshi K (2008). "Cell proliferation at 122°C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 105: 10949–54. doi:10.1073/pnas.0712334105.
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Further reading
Scientific journals
- Kurr M, Huber R, Konig H, Jannasch HW, Fricke H, Trincone A, Kristjansson JK, Stetter KO (1991). "Methanopyrus kandleri, gen. and sp. nov. represents a novel group of hyperthermophilic methanogens, growing at 110°C". Arch. Microbiol. 156: 239–247. doi:10.1007/BF00262992.
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Scientific books
- Huber R, Stetter KO (2001). "Family I. Methanopyralceae fam. nov.". In DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds. (ed.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. p. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712.
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