Electron micrograph of Sulfolobus infected with Sulfolobus virus STSV1. Bar = 1 μm.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Proteoarchaeota
Superphylum:
TACK group
Phylum:
Thermoproteota
Class:
Thermoprotei
Order:
Sulfolobales
Family:
Sulfolobaceae
Genus:
Sulfolobus Brock, Brock, Belly & Weiss 1972
Type species
Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
Brock et al. 1972
Species
S. acidocaldarius
"S. beitou"
"S. mongibelli"
"S. neozealandicus"
"S. tengchongensis"
"S. thuringiensis"
"S. vallisabyssus"
Sulfolobus sp. A20[1]
Sulfolobus is a genus of microorganism in the family Sulfolobaceae. It belongs to the archaea domain.[2]
Sulfolobus species grow in volcanic springs with optimal growth occurring at pH 2–3 and temperatures of 75–80 °C, making them acidophiles and thermophiles respectively. Sulfolobus cells are irregularly shaped and flagellar.
Species of Sulfolobus are generally named after the location from which they were first isolated, e.g. Sulfolobus solfataricus was first isolated in the Solfatara volcano. Other species can be found throughout the world in areas of volcanic or geothermal activity, such as geological formations called mud pots, which are also known as solfatare (plural of solfatara).
^Dai, X; Wang, H; Zhang, Z; Li, K; Zhang, X; Mora-López, M; Jiang, C; Liu, C; Wang, L; Zhu, Y; Hernández-Ascencio, W; Dong, Z; Huang, L (2016). "Genome Sequencing of Sulfolobus sp. A20 from Costa Rica and Comparative Analyses of the Putative Pathways of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in Various Sulfolobus Strains". Frontiers in Microbiology. 7: 1902. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01902. PMC 5127849. PMID 27965637.
^See the NCBI webpage on Sulfolobus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
Sulfolobus is a genus of microorganism in the family Sulfolobaceae. It belongs to the archaea domain. Sulfolobus species grow in volcanic springs with...
and have been found in several strains of Sulfolobus but not in other genome. Chromatin protein in Sulfolobus represent 1-5% of the total. They can have...
Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is a thermoacidophilic archaeon that belongs to the phylum Thermoproteota. S. acidocaldarius was the first Sulfolobus species...
enzymes, in particular for the degradation of plant biomass. Sulfolobus solfataricus and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius are hyperthermophilic archaea. When these...
phylogeny. Sulfolobus sp. strain 7r sp. nov. is a close relative to Sulfolobus metallicus with comparable phylogenetic properties. Both Sulfolobus metallicus...
single species, Sulfolobus ellipsoid virus 1. The linear genome of dsDNA is 23,219 bp with 172 bp inverted terminal repeats. Sulfolobus ellipsoid virus...
Akihiko; Oshima, Tairo (2002). "Sulfolobus tokodaii sp. nov. (f. Sulfolobus sp. strain 7), a new member of the genus Sulfolobus isolated from Beppu Hot Springs...
Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 1 (SIRV1) is a virus in the order Ligamenvirales. Its only known host is the Archaean Sulfolobus islandicus. The...
Thermoproteota. One of the best characterized members of the Crenarchaeota is Sulfolobus solfataricus. This organism was originally isolated from geothermally...
Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2, also referred to as SIRV2, is an archaeal virus whose only known host is the archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus....
Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus 1 (formerly Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus) is a species of virus that infects the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus...
in either direction. When the hyperthermophilic archaea Sulfolobus solfataricus and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius are exposed to DNA-damaging UV irradiation...
time as Sulfolobus shibatae in 1990, after being isolated from geothermal pools in Beppu, Japan. It was transferred from the genus Sulfolobus to the new...
the family Guttaviridae. Sulfolobus newzealandicus serve as natural hosts. There is only one species in this genus: Sulfolobus newzealandicus droplet-shaped...
of viruses; it contains only one genus, Alphaturrivirus. The archaea Sulfolobus solfataricus serve as natural hosts. There are two species in the genus...
are able to bind to extracellular structures such as pili, including Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus (STIV) and Acidianus filamentous virus 1 (AFV1)...
the direct repeat and the protospacer during acquisition. Analysis of Sulfolobus solfataricus CRISPRs revealed further complexities to the canonical model...
family Fuselloviridae. Species in the genus Sulfolobus (Sulfolobus shibatae, Sulfolobus solfataricus, and Sulfolobus islandicus) serve as natural hosts. There...
and thermoacidophiles. An example of one of these prokaryotes would be Sulfolobus. Chemolithotrophic growth can be dramatically fast, such as Hydrogenovibrio...
and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Exposure of Sulfolobus solfataricus to the DNA damaging agents UV-irradiation, bleomycin or mitomycin...
has allowed them to adapt to extremely salty environments. The archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, when UV irradiated, strongly induces the formation of type...
isolated and purified. Crystal structures of RNAPs from Sulfolobus solfataricus and Sulfolobus shibatae set the total number of identified archaeal subunits...
transfer from one cell to another in either direction. Sulfolobus solfataricus and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius are hyperthermophilic archaea. Exposure of...
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