Pyrococcus abyssi is a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the North Fiji Basin at 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). It is anaerobic, sulfur-metabolizing, gram-negative, coccus-shaped and highly motile. Its optimum growth temperature is 96 °C (205 °F). Its type strain is GE5 (CNCM I-1302). Pyrococcus abyssi has been used as a model organism in studies of DNA polymerase. This species can also grow at high cell densities in bioreactors.
Further reading
- Cohen GN; Barbe V; Flament D; et al. (March 2003). "An integrated analysis of the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi". Molecular Microbiology. 47 (6): 1495–512. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03381.x. PMID 12622808.
- Gueguen Y; Rolland JL; Lecompte O; et al. (November 2001). "Characterization of two DNA polymerases from the hyperthermophilic euryarchaeon Pyrococcus abyssi". European Journal of Biochemistry. 268 (22): 5961–9. doi:10.1046/j.0014-2956.2001.02550.x. PMID 11722585.Cohen, Georges N., et al. "An integrated analysis of the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi." Molecular microbiology 47.6 (2003): 1495–1512.
- Castillo-Lizardo, Melissa; Henneke, Ghislaine; Viguera, Enrique (August 2014). "Replication slippage of the thermophilic DNA polymerases B and D from the Euryarchaeota Pyrococcus abyssi". Frontiers in Microbiology. 5 (403): 403. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00403. PMC 4134008. PMID 25177316.
External links
- "Pyrococcus abyssi". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- Type strain of Pyrococcus abyssi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
References
Erauso, Gaël; Reysenbach, Anna-Louise; Godfroy, Anne; Meunier, Jean-Roch; et al. (1993). "Pyrococcus abyssi sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent". Archives of Microbiology. 160 (5). doi:10.1007/BF00252219. ISSN 0302-8933. S2CID 6454891. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩
Melissa Castillo-Lizardo; Ghislaine Henneke; Enrique Viguera (2014-08-07). Zvi Kelman; Andrew F. Gardner (eds.). Replication slippage of the thermophilic DNA polymerases B and D from the Euryarchaeota Pyrococcus abyssi. Vol. 5. Frontiers Media SA. p. 58. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00403. ISBN 9782889194551. PMC 4134008. PMID 25177316. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help) 9782889194551 ↩
Anne Godfroy; Niel Raven; Richard Sharp (1997-01-01). "Continuous Culture of Pyrococcus abyssi strain ST549 in a gas-lift bioreactor". In Yves Le Gal; A. Muller-Feuga (eds.). Marine Microorganisms for Industry. Editions Quae. p. 179. ISBN 9782905434944. Retrieved 2016-09-15. 9782905434944 ↩