Pyrococcus woesei is an ultra-thermophilic marine archaeon. It is sulfur-reducing and grows optimally between 100 and 103 °C. Its cells have a roughly spherical, elongated and constricted appearance, similar to Thermococcus celer. Frequently, they occur as diploforms. Cells grown on solid supports have dense tufts of flagella or pili attached to one pole.[1]
Kanoksilapatham et al. propose P. woesei as a subspecies of P. furiosus.[2]
It is named after the discoverer of archaea as a whole - Carl Woese
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^Kanoksilapatham W; González JM; Maeder DL; DiRuggiero J; et al. (October 2004). "A proposal to rename the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus woesei as Pyrococcus furiosus subsp. woesei". Archaea. 1 (4): 277–83. doi:10.1155/2004/513563. PMC 2685572. PMID 15810438.
Pyrococcuswoesei is an ultra-thermophilic marine archaeon. It is sulfur-reducing and grows optimally between 100 and 103 °C. Its cells have a roughly...
Pyrococcus is a genus of Thermococcaceaen archaean. Pyrococcus has similar characteristics of other thermoautotrophican archaea such as Archaeoglobus,...
Society. Many microbial species, such as Pyrococcuswoesei, Methanobrevibacter woesei, and Conexibacter woesei, are named in his honor. Microbiologist...
used for the polymerase chain reaction. The abbreviation stands for Pyrococcuswoesei, a thermophilic archaeon, from which this polymerase was isolated...
lesser used polymerases from this genus include Pwo (P61876) from Pyrococcuswoesei, Pfx from an unnamed species, "Deep Vent" polymerase (Q51334) from...
other thermophilic archaebacteria species. T. celer is related to Pyrococcuswoesei, both belonging to the order Thermococcales. Both are strictly anaerobic...
solved. Among those are transcription factor B (TFB) from the archaeon Pyrococcuswoesei which presents an inverted orientation and a TFIIB from the parasite...
these two proteins is TFB, which was first identified in the species Pyrococcuswoesei in 1992. Since then, research has found that archaeal species must...
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