ReviewApplied and environmental microbiology2014
Transferable denitrification capability of Thermus thermophilus.
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- Differential requirement for RecFOR pathway components in Thermus thermophilus.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Identification of tissue-specific microbial profile of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by full-length 16S rDNA sequencing.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2022Article
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- Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of Two Hot Springs From Ourense (Northwestern Spain) and Others Worldwide.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Nitrate Respiration inGenes · 2020Review
- Distinct Expression of the Two NO-Forming Nitrite Reductases in Thermus antranikianii DSM 12462Microbial ecology · 2020Article
- Microorganisms and Their Metabolic Capabilities in the Context of the Biogeochemical Nitrogen Cycle at Extreme Environments.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- DMSO Reductase Family: Phylogenetics and Applications of Extremophiles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
- Enrichment of anaerobic heterotrophic thermophiles from four Azorean hot springs revealed different community composition and genera abundances using recalcitrant substrates.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2019Article
- A new family of nitrate/nitrite transporters involved in denitrification.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2019Article
- Recent advances in understanding extremophiles.F1000Research · 2019Review
- The role of conserved proteins DrpA and DrpB in nitrate respiration of Thermus thermophilus.Environmental microbiology · 2018Article
- Cultivation and Genomic Analysis of "Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Cloning, purification and characterization of novel Cu-containing nitrite reductase from the Bacillus firmus GY-49.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2017Article
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- Whole Genome Comparison of Thermus sp. NMX2.A1 Reveals Principle Carbon Metabolism Differences with Closest Relation Thermus scotoductus SA-01.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Article
- A third subunit in ancestral cytochrome c-dependent nitric oxide reductases.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Laboratory-adapted strains of Thermus spp. have been shown to require oxygen for growth, including the model strains T. thermophilus HB27 and HB8. In contrast, many isolates of this species that have not been intensively grown under laboratory conditions keep the capability to grow anaerobically with one or more electron acceptors. The use of nitrogen oxides, especially nitrate, as electron acceptors is one of the most widespread capabilities among these facultative strains. In this process, nitrate is reduced to nitrite by a reductase (Nar) that also functions as electron transporter toward nitrite and nitric oxide reductases when nitrate is scarce, effectively replacing respiratory complex III. In many T. thermophilus denitrificant strains, most electrons for Nar are provided by a new class of NADH dehydrogenase (Nrc). The ability to reduce nitrite to NO and subsequently to N2O by the corresponding Nir and Nor reductases is also strain specific. The genes encoding the capabilities for nitrate (nar) and nitrite (nir and nor) respiration are easily transferred between T. thermophilus strains by natural competence or by a conjugation-like process and may be easily lost upon continuous growth under aerobic conditions. The reason for this instability is apparently related to the fact that these metabolic capabilities are encoded in gene cluster islands, which are delimited by insertion sequences and integrated within highly variable regions of easily transferable extrachromosomal elements. Together with the chromosomal genes, these plasmid-associated genetic islands constitute the extended pangenome of T. thermophilus that provides this species with an enhanced capability to adapt to changing environments.
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