| Staphylothermus marinus |
| Morphology | Staphylothermus marinus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram negative |
| Morphology | Cells slightly irregular cocci occurring singly, in pairs, as short chains, and as aggregates of up to 100 cells. Width about 0.5-15 um, depending on the culture conditions |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Staphylothermus marinus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Heterotrophic |
| Oxygen | Strictly anaerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | Extreme thermophiles With optimal nutrition (0.1% yeast extract + 0.5% peptone), optimum temperature is 92`C, and maximum, 98`C. In minimal medium (0.02% yeast extract + 0.004% Methanosarcina extract), optimum temperature is 85`C, and maximum, 92`C |
| Requirements | growth on peptone, tryptone, yeast extract, meat extract and extracts of eubacteria and archaeobacteria in the presence of sulfur (S`). |
| Products | H2S, CO2, acetate and isovalerate are formed as metabolic products |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | Resistant to vancomycin, kanamycin, streptomycin and chloramphenicol.. Elongation factor 2 is ADP- ribosylable by diphtheria toxin. Phytanyl glycerol diether, dibiphytanyl diglycerol tetraether and a yet unknown ether lipid component are present |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Staphylothermus marinus |
| G+C Mol % | 35 |
| Reference | Staphylothermus marinus |
| First citation | Stetter and Fiala in Fiala,G., K.O. Stetter, H. W. Jannasch, T.A.Langworthy and J. Madon. 1986. Staphylothermus marinus sp. nov. represents a novel genus of extremely thermophilic submarine heterotropic archaebacteria growing up to 98 oC Syst. Appl. Microbiol 8: 106-113 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2247 G. Fiala and K.O. Stetter |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 753 |
| References |