Biology:Effusibacillus pohliae

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Effusibacillus pohliae
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E. pohliae
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Effusibacillus pohliae
Imperio et al 2008

Effusibacillus pohliae is a species of Gram positive, aerobic, thermophilic bacterium. The cells are rod-shaped and form spores. It was first isolated from Mount Melbourne, Antarctica. The species is named after the genus of Pohlia nutans, a species of moss that was colonizing the area where the type strain was isolated.[1][2] E. pohliae has also been isolated from a geothermal heat pump in South Korea .[3]

The species was originally grouped with genus Alicyclobacillus. However, further research found that A. pohliae and Alicyclobacillus consociatus belonged in a newly described genus Effusibacillus, and were renamed accordingly.[4]

The optimum growth temperature for E. pohliae is 55 °C, and can grow in the 42-60 °C range. Its optimum pH is 5.0, and grows in pH range 4.5-7.5.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Imperio, T.; Viti, C.; Marri, L. (1 January 2008). "Alicyclobacillus pohliae sp. nov., a thermophilic, endospore-forming bacterium isolated from geothermal soil of the north-west slope of Mount Melbourne (Antarctica)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58 (1): 221–225. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65092-0. PMID 18175712. 
  2. Bargagli, R.; Skotnicki, M. L.; Marri, L.; Pepi, M.; Mackenzie, A.; Agnorelli, C. (1 June 2004). "New record of moss and thermophilic bacteria species and physico-chemical properties of geothermal soils on the northwest slope of Mt. Melbourne (Antarctica)". Polar Biology 27 (7): 423–431. doi:10.1007/s00300-004-0612-6. 
  3. Kim; Lee (6 October 2019). "Effects of a Groundwater Heat Pump on Thermophilic Bacteria Activity". Water 11 (10): 2084. doi:10.3390/w11102084. 
  4. Watanabe, M.; Kojima, H.; Fukui, M. (23 May 2014). "Proposal of Effusibacillus lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., and reclassification of Alicyclobacillus pohliae as Effusibacillus pohliae comb. nov. and Alicyclobacillus consociatus as Effusibacillus consociatus comb. nov.". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 64 (Pt 8): 2770–2774. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.055814-0. PMID 24860109. 

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