Cross Index Thermoleophilum
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, Flavimonas oryzihabitans, Flavobacterium, 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
Subset Thermoleophilum album, Thermoleophilum minutum

General Comment: At present there are no routine phenotypic test available that can differentiate Thermoleophilum album from Thermoleophilum minutum. The two species can be differentiated by DNA hybridization experiments and by differences in the electrophoretic mobility patterns of proteins released from the cells by sonication

Morphology Thermoleophilum
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram negative
Morphology short rods (0.4 x 0.7- 1.5 um)
Motility  
Specialized structures no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface form very small translucent colonies on the agar surface
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Thermoleophilum
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism  
Oxygen  
pH optimum pH 7 range pH 5.8-8.0
Temperature optimum 60 oC range 45-70 oC
Requirements no specific growth factors required
Products  
Enzymes  
Unique features Grows only at the expense of n-alkanes from 13-20 carbons in length in a defined mineral salts medium
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat isolated from mud and water samples, primarily from thermal environments but also nonthermal sources
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Thermoleophilum
G+C Mol %  
   

 

Reference Thermoleophilum
First Citation Zarilla and Perry 1984 Arch Microbiol 137: 286-290 Zarilla and Perry 1986 IJSB 36:354-356
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 98
References Zarilla and Perry 1986 IJSB 36:13-16