[Sulfobacillus, a new genus of thermophilic sporulating bacteria].
An aerobic facultative thermophilic bacterium was isolated from the ore of the Nikolaev copper-zinc-pyrite deposit in the Eastern Kazakhstan. The bacterium is similar to Thiobacillus ferooxidans in the ability to use various energy subsrates (Fe2+, sulphide minerals and So) and in the acidophilic properties, but differs from it in the thermophilic nature, the structure of a cell wall, the ability to produce spores, and a lower GC content in DNA. Consequently, the organism has been identified as a new species of a new genus, Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans gen. nov., sp. nov. The organism is presumed to play an active role in oxidation of sulphide ores and their warming in deposits.
D003470:Culture Media; D006091:Gram-Negative Chemolithotrophic Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D013171:Spores, Bacterial; D013440:Sulfides; D013696:Temperature
D003470:Culture Media; D013440:Sulfides
Sulfobacillus--novyĭ rod termofil'nykh sporoobrazuiushchikh bakteriĭ.