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Saccharolobus solfataricus is a species of thermophilic archaeon. It was transferred from the genus Sulfolobus to the new genus Saccharolobus with the description of Saccharolobus caldissimus in 2018.[1]
It was first isolated and discovered in the Solfatara volcano (which it was subsequently named after) in 1980 by two German microbiologists Karl Setter and Wolfram Zillig, in Solfatara volcano (Pisciarelli-Campania, Italy).[2]
However, these organisms are not isolated to volcanoes but are found all over the world in places such as hot springs. The species grows best in temperatures around 80 °C, a pH level between 2 and 4, and enough sulfur for solfataricus to metabolize in order to gain energy. These conditions qualify it as an extremophile and it is specifically known as a thermoacidophile because of its preference to high temperatures and low pH levels and it is also in aerobic and heterotropic categories for its metabolic system.[3] It usually has a spherical cell shape and it makes frequent lobes. Being an autotroph it receives energy from growing on sulfur or even a variety of organic compounds.[4]
Currently, it is the most widely studied organism that is within the Thermoproteota branch. Solfataricus are researched for their methods of DNA replication, cell cycle, chromosomal integration, transcription, RNA processing, and translation. All the data points to the organism having a large percent of archaeal-specific genes, which showcases the differences between the three types of microbes: archaea, bacteria, and eukarya.
- ^ Sakai HD, Kurosawa N (April 2018). "Saccharolobus caldissimus gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic iron-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus solfataricus as Saccharolobus solfataricus comb. nov. and Sulfolobus shibatae as Saccharolobus shibatae comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 68 (4): 1271–1278. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002665. PMID 29485400. S2CID 4528286.
- ^ "Where was Sulfolobus solfataricus first found?". www.intercept.cnrs.fr. 15 January 2019.
- ^ Ciaramella M, Pisani FM, Rossi M (August 2002). "Molecular biology of extremophiles: recent progress on the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 81 (1–4): 85–97. doi:10.1023/A:1020577510469. PMID 12448708. S2CID 8330296.
- ^ Brock TD, Brock KM, Belly RT, Weiss RL (1972). "Sulfolobus: a new genus of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria living at low pH and high temperature". Archiv für Mikrobiologie. 84 (1): 54–68. doi:10.1007/bf00408082. PMID 4559703. S2CID 9204044.