Cross Index	Acidothermus cellulolyticus
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci
Compare	Acetobacter, Acidiphilium, Acidomonas methanolica , Acidothermus cellulolyticus, Acidovorax, Acinetobacter, Afipia , Agrobacterium, Agromonas oligotrophica , Alcaligenes, Alteromonas, Aminobacter , Aquaspirillum, Azomonas, Azorhizobium caulinodans , Azotobacter , Bacteroides ,Beijerinckia, Bordetella, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Brucella, Chromohalobacter marismortui , Chryseomonas luteola , Comamonas , Cupriavidus necator , Deleya , Derxia gummosa, Ensifer adherans , Erythrobacter longus , Flavobacterium Flavomonas oryzihabitans , Francisella, Frateuria aurantica, Gluconobacter, Halomonas, Hydrogenophaga, Janthinobacterium lividum, Kingella, Lampropedia hyalina, Legionella, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus , Marinomonas , Mesophilobacter marinus Methylobacillus glycogenes , Methylobacterium , Methylococcus, Methylomonas, Methylophaga , Methylophilus , Methylovorus glucosotrophus, Moraxella, Morococcus cerebrosus , Neisseriaceae, Neisseria, Oceanospirillum , Ochrobactrum anthropi , Oligella , Paracoccus, Phenylobacterium immobile , Phyllobacterium, Pseudomonas, Psychrobacter immobilis , Rhizobacter daucus , Rhizobium, Rhizomonas suberifaciens , Rochalimaea, Roseobacter, Rugomonas rubra, Serpens, Sinorhizobium , Sphingobacterium, Taylorella equigenitalis, Thermoleophilum, Thermomicrobium, Thermus, Variovorax paradoxus, Volcaniella eurhalina , Weeksella, Wolinella Xanthobacter, Xanthomonas, Xyella fastidiosa , Xylophilus ampelinus, Zoogloea ramigera,
Contrast	Archaea

 

Morphology

Acidothermus cellulolyticus

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram variable or Gram negative
Morphology	slender rods and long slender filaments (0.4 x 5-20 um) with rounded ends.
Motility	non motile
Specialized structures	no spores Thin sections in the electron microscope show no outer wall membranes

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Colonies grown on LPBM mineral salts agar with 0.5g/l yeast extract and 5.0 g/l glucose or cellobiose are creamy white, smooth circular , entire and 1-3 mm in diameter

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Acidothermus cellulolyticus

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen	obligate aerobe
pH	acidophile grows between pH 3.5-7.0
Temperature	Thermophile, grows between 37-70 oC, optimum 50-60 oC
Requirements	citrate and acetate are inhibitory at 0.01M
Products	cell walls contain diaminopimelic acid, glucosamine, muramic acid, serine and alanine
Enzymes	catalase positive, actively digests cellulose
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	isolated from acidic hot springs at Yellowstone National Park USA
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Acidothermus cellulolyticus

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Acidothermus cellulolyticus

First Citation	Mohagheghi et al 1986 IJSB 36: 435-443
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 72-73

References