Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1(T)), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta, and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov., Treponema stenostrepta comb. nov., and Treponema zuelzerae comb. nov., and emendation of the genus Treponema.
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Authors
Abt, BirteGöker, Markus
Scheuner, Carmen
Han, Cliff
Lu, Megan
Misra, Monica
Lapidus, Alla
Nolan, Matt
Lucas, Susan
Hammon, Nancy
Deshpande, Shweta
Cheng, Jan-Fang
Tapia, Roxanne
Goodwin, Lynne A
Pitluck, Sam
Liolios, Konstantinos
Pagani, Ioanna
Ivanova, Natalia
Mavromatis, Konstantinos
Mikhailova, Natalia
Huntemann, Marcel
Pati, Amrita
Chen, Amy
Palaniappan, Krishna
Land, Miriam
Hauser, Loren
Jeffries, Cynthia D
Rohde, Manfred
Spring, Stefan
Gronow, Sabine
Detter, John C
Bristow, James
Eisen, Jonathan A
Markowitz, Victor
Hugenholtz, Philip
Kyrpides, Nikos C
Woyke, Tanja
Klenk, Hans-Peter
Issue Date
2013-04-15
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Spirochaeta caldaria Pohlschroeder et al. 1995 is an obligately anaerobic, spiral-shaped bacterium that is motile via periplasmic flagella. The type strain, H1(T), was isolated in 1990 from cyanobacterial mat samples collected at a freshwater hot spring in Oregon, USA, and is of interest because it enhances the degradation of cellulose when grown in co-culture with Clostridium thermocellum. Here we provide a taxonomic re-evaluation for S. caldaria based on phylogenetic analyses of 16S rRNA sequences and whole genomes, and propose the reclassification of S. caldaria and two other Spirochaeta species as members of the emended genus Treponema. Whereas genera such as Borrelia and Sphaerochaeta possess well-distinguished genomic features related to their divergent lifestyles, the physiological and functional genomic characteristics of Spirochaeta and Treponema appear to be intermixed and are of little taxonomic value. The 3,239,340 bp long genome of strain H1(T) with its 2,869 protein-coding and 59 RNA genes is a part of the G enomic E ncyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.Citation
Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1(T)), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta, and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov., Treponema stenostrepta comb. nov., and Treponema zuelzerae comb. nov., and emendation of the genus Treponema. 2013, 8 (1):88-105 Stand Genomic SciAffiliation
Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.Journal
Standards in genomic sciencesPubMed ID
23961314Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
1944-3277ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.4056/sigs.3096473
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