Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Family Thermodesulfobacteriaceae

  • Reference work entry
  • First Online:
The Prokaryotes

Abstract

Thermodesulfobacteriaceae is the only family belonging to the order Thermodesulfobacteriales, class Thermodesulfobacteria, and phylum Thermodesulfobacteria and consists of the 4 valid genera, Thermodesulfobacterium, Thermodesulfatator, Caldimicrobium, and Thermosulfurimonas and the invalid genus Geothermobacterium. They are Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-sporulating, anaerobic thermophiles that grow with sulfur compounds or Fe(III) as an energy source. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene demonstrates that this family is one of the deeply branching lineages within the domain Bacteria. They inhabit thermal environments such as terrestrial hot springs, oil reservoirs, and hydrothermal fields.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 699.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 849.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Alain K, Postec A, Grinsard E, Lesongeur F, Prieur D, Godfroy A (2010) Thermodesulfatator atlanticus sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 60:33–38

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Anderson I, Saunders E, Lapidus A, Nolan M, Lucas S, Tice H, Del Rio TG, Cheng JF, Han C, Tapia R, Goodwin LA, Pitluck S, Liolios K, Mavromatis K, Pagani I, Ivanova N, Mikhailova N, Pati A, Chen A, Palaniappan K, Land M, Hauser L, Jeffries CD, Chang YJ, Brambilla EM, Rohde M, Spring S, Goker M, Detter JC, Woyke T, Bristow J, Eisen JA, Markowitz V, Hugenholtz P, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP (2012) Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic sulfate-reducing ocean bacterium Thermodesulfatator indicus type strain (CIR29812T). Stand Genomic Sci 6:155–164

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Bak F, Cypionka H (1987) A novel type of energy metabolism involving fermentation of inorganic sulphur compounds. Nature 326:891–892

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Brock TD (2000) Biology of microorganisms, 9th edn. Prentice-Hall International, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Christensen B, Torsvik T, Lien T (1992) Immunomagnetically captured thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria from north sea oil field waters. Appl Environ Microbiol 58:1244–1248

    PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Collins MD, Weddel F (1986) Respiratory quinones of sulphate-reducing and sulphur-reducing bacteria: a systematic investigation. Syst Appl Microbiol 8:8–18

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Everroad RC, Otaki H, Matsuura K, Haruta S (2012) Diversification of bacterial community composition along a temperature gradient at a thermal spring. Microbes Environ 27:374–381

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Fauque G, Czechowski M, Kang-Lissolo L, DerVartanian DV, Moura JJG, Moura I, Lampreia J, Xavier AV, LeGall J (1986) Purification of adenylyl sulfate (APS) reductase and desulfofuscidin from a thermophilic sulfate reducer: Desulfovibrio thermophilus. In: Annual meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology, San Francisco, p 92

    Google Scholar 

  • Fauque G, Lino AR, Czechowski M, Kang L, DerVartanian DV, Moura JJ, LeGall J, Moura I (1990) Purification and characterization of bisulfite reductase (desulfofuscidin) from Desulfovibrio thermophilus and its complexes with exogenous ligands. Biochim Biophys Acta 1040:112–118

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Fauque G, LeGall J, Barton LL (1991) Sulfate-reducing and sulfur-reducing bacteria. In: Shively JM, Barton LL (eds) Variations in autotrophic life. Academic, London, pp 271–337

    Google Scholar 

  • Fauque G, Czechowski M, Berlier YM, Lespinat PA, LeGall J, Moura JJG (1992) Partial purification and characterization of the first hydrogenase isolated from a thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 184:1256–1260

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Friedrich MW (2002) Phylogenetic analysis reveals multiple lateral transfers of adenosine-5′-phosphosulfate reductase genes among sulfate-reducing microorganisms. J Bacteriol 184:278–289

    Article  PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Hamana K, Hamana H, Niitsu M, Samejima K, Itoh T (1996) Distribution of long linear and branched polyamines in thermophilic eubacteria and hyperthermophilic archaebacteria. Microbios 85:19–33

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hamana K, Hamana H, Shinozawa T, Niitsu M, Samejima K, Itoh T (1999) Polyamines of the thermophilic eubacteria belonging to the genera Aquifex, Thermodesulfobacterium, Thermus and Meiothermus, and the thermophilic archaebacteria belonging to the genera Sulfurisphaera, Sulfophobococcus, Stetteria, Thermocladium, Pyrococcus, Thermococcus, Methanopyrus and Methanothermus. Microbios 97:117–130

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hatchikian EC (1994) Desulfofuscidin: dissimilatory, high-spin sulfite reductase of thermophilic, sulfate-reducing bacteria. In: Peck HD Jr, LeGall J (eds) Inorganic microbial sulfur metabolism. Academic, San Diego, pp 276–295

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Hatchikian EC, Zeikus JG (1983) Characterization of a new type of dissimilatory sulfite reductase present in Thermodesulfobacterium commune. J Bacteriol 153:1211–1220

    PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Hatchikian EC, Papavassiliou P, Bianco P, Haladjian J (1984) Characterization of cytochrome .3 from the thermophilic sulfate reducer Thermodesulfobacterium commun. J Bacteriol 159:1040–1046

    PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Hatchikian EC, Ollivier B, Garcia J-L (2001) Family I. Thermodesulfobacteriaceae fam. nov. In: Boon DR, Castenholz RW (eds) Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology, 2nd edn, The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria. Springer, New York, pp 390–393

    Google Scholar 

  • Hosoya R, Hamana K, Niitsu M, Itoh T (2004) Polyamine analysis for chemotaxonomy of thermophilic eubacteria: polyamine distribution profiles within the orders Aquificales, Thermotogales, Thermodesulfobacteriales, Thermales, Thermoanaerobacteriales, Clostridiales and Bacillales. J Gen Appl Microbiol 50:271–287

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Jeanthon C, L’Haridon S, Cueff V, Banta A, Reysenbach AL, Prieur D (2002) Thermodesulfobacterium hydrogeniphilum sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent at Guaymas Basin, and emendation of the genus Thermodesulfobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:765–772

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kashefi K, Holmes DE, Reysenbach AL, Lovley DR (2002) Use of Fe(III) as an electron acceptor to recover previously uncultured hyperthermophiles: isolation and characterization of Geothermobacterium ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov. Appl Environ Microbiol 68:1735–1742

    Article  PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Kashefi K, Shelobolina ES, Elliott WC, Lovley DR (2008) Growth of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms on a ferruginous smectite as the sole electron acceptor. Appl Environ Microbiol 74:251–258

    Article  PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Klein M, Friedrich M, Roger AJ, Hugenholtz P, Fishbain S, Abicht H, Blackall LL, Stahl DA, Wagner M (2001) Multiple lateral transfers of dissimilatory sulfite reductase genes between major lineages of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes. J Bacteriol 183:6028–6035

    Article  PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Kobayashi H, Endo K, Sakata S, Mayumi D, Kawaguchi H, Ikarashi M, Miyagawa Y, Maeda H, Sato K (2012) Phylogenetic diversity of microbial communities associated with the crude-oil, large-insoluble-particle and formation-water components of the reservoir fluid from a non-flooded high-temperature petroleum reservoir. J Biosci Bioeng 113:204–210

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • L’Haridon S, Reysenbacht AL, Glenat P, Prieur D, Jeanthon C (1995) Hot subterranean biosphere in a continental oil reservoir. Nature 377:223–224

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Langworthy TA, Holzer G, Zeikus JG, Tornabene TG (1983) Iso- and anteiso-branched glycerol diethers of the thermophilic anaerobe Thermodesulfotobacterium commune. Syst Appl Microbiol 4:1–17

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lau MC, Aitchison JC, Pointing SB (2009) Bacterial community composition in thermophilic microbial mats from five hot springs in central Tibet. Extremophiles 13:139–149

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • LeGall J, Fauque G (1988) Dissimilatory reduction of sulfur compounds. In: Zehnder AJB (ed) Biology of anaerobic microorganisms. Wiley, New York, pp 587–639

    Google Scholar 

  • Meyer-Dombard DR, Swingley W, Raymond J, Havig J, Shock EL, Summons RE (2011) Hydrothermal ecotones and streamer biofilm communities in the Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. Environ Microbiol 13:2216–2231

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Miroshnichenko ML, Lebedinsky AV, Chernyh NA, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Spring S, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA (2009) Caldimicrobium rimae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic, facultatively lithoautotrophic, anaerobic bacterium from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59:1040–1044

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mori K, Kim H, Kakegawa T, Hanada S (2003) A novel lineage of sulfate-reducing microorganisms: Thermodesulfobiaceae fam. nov., Thermodesulfobium narugense, gen. nov., sp. nov., a new thermophilic isolate from a hot spring. Extremophiles 7:283–290

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Moussard H, L’Haridon S, Tindall BJ, Banta A, Schumann P, Stackebrandt E, Reysenbach AL, Jeanthon C (2004) Thermodesulfatator indicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic chemolithoautotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from the Central Indian Ridge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:227–233

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nakagawa T, Hanada S, Maruyama A, Marumo K, Urabe T, Fukui M (2002) Distribution and diversity of thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria within a Cu-Pb-Zn mine (Toyoha, Japan). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 41:199–209

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nakagawa T, Nakagawa S, Inagaki F, Takai K, Horikoshi K (2004) Phylogenetic diversity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in active deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney structures. FEMS Microbiol Lett 232:145–152

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nakagawa S, Takai K, Inagaki F, Chiba H, Ishibashi J, Kataoka S, Hirayama H, Nunoura T, Horikoshi K, Sako Y (2005) Variability in microbial community and venting chemistry in a sediment-hosted backarc hydrothermal system: impacts of subseafloor phase-separation. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 54:141–155

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nunoura T, Takai K (2009) Comparison of microbial communities associated with phase-separation-induced hydrothermal fluids at the Yonaguni Knoll IV hydrothermal field, the Southern Okinawa Trough. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 67:351–370

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Otaki H, Everroad RC, Matsuura K, Haruta S (2012) Production and consumption of hydrogen in hot spring microbial mats dominated by a filamentous anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium. Microbes Environ 27:293–299

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Pham VD, Hnatow LL, Zhang S, Fallon RD, Jackson SC, Tomb JF, DeLong EF, Keeler SJ (2009) Characterizing microbial diversity in production water from an Alaskan mesothermic petroleum reservoir with two independent molecular methods. Environ Microbiol 11:176–187

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Postec A, Lesongeur F, Pignet P, Ollivier B, Querellou J, Godfroy A (2007) Continuous enrichment cultures: insights into prokaryotic diversity and metabolic interactions in deep-sea vent chimneys. Extremophiles 11:747–757

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rozanova EP, Khudyakova AI (1974) Participation of microorganisms in sulphur tunover in Pomaretzkoye Lake. Mikrobiologiya 43:908–912

    Google Scholar 

  • Rozanova EP, Pivovarova TA (1988) Reclassification of Desulfovibrio thermophilus (Rozanova and Khudykova, 1974). Mikrobiologiya 57:102–106

    Google Scholar 

  • Shimizu F, Ogata M, Yagi T, Wakabayashi S, Matsubara H (1989) Amino acid sequence and function of rubredoxin from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki. Biochimie 71:1171–1177

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Skerman VDB, McGowan C, Sneath PHA (1980) Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 30:225–420

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Skirnisdottir S, Hreggvidsson GO, Hjorleifsdottir S, Marteinsson VT, Petursdottir SK, Holst O, Kristjansson JK (2000) Influence of sulfide and temperature on species composition and community structure of hot spring microbial mats. Appl Environ Microbiol 66:2835–2841

    Article  PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Slobodkin AI, Reysenbach AL, Slobodkina GB, Baslerov RV, Kostrikina NA, Wagner ID, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA (2012) Thermosulfurimonas dismutans gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic sulfur-disproportionating bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 62:2565–2571

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sonne-Hansen J, Ahring BK (1999) Thermodesulfobacterium hveragerdense sp. nov., and Thermodesulfovibrio islandicus sp. nov., two thermophilic sulfate reducing bacteria isolated from a Icelandic hot spring. Syst Appl Microbiol 22:559–564

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Spear JR, Walker JJ, McCollom TM, Pace NR (2005) Hydrogen and bioenergetics in the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystem. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:2555–2560

    Article  PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Tao T-S, Yue Y-Y, Fang C-X (1996) Irregularities in the validation of the genus Thermodesulfobacterium and its species: request for an opinion. Int J Syst Bacteriol 46:622

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Thamdrup B, Finster K, Hansen JW, Bak F (1993) Bacterial disproportionation of elemental sulfur coupled to chemical reduction of iron or manganese. Appl Environ Microbiol 59:101–108

    PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Trüper HG (2003) Valid publication of the genus name Thermodesulfobacterium and the species names Thermodesulfobacterium commune (Zeikus, et al. 1983) and Thermodesulfobacterium thermophilum (ex Desulfovibrio thermophilus Rozanova and Khudyakova 1974). Opinion 71. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53:927

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yarza P, Ludwig W, Euzeby J, Amann R, Schleifer KH, Glockner FO, Rossello-Mora R (2010) Update of the All-Species Living Tree Project based on 16S and 23S rRNA sequence analyses. Syst Appl Microbiol 33:291–299

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Zeikus JG, Dawson MA, Thompson TE, Ingvorsen K, Hatchikian EC (1983) Microbial ecology of volcanic sulphido-genesis: isolation and characterization of Thermodesulfobacterium commune gen. nov. and sp. nov. J Gen Microbiol 129:1159–1169

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Zverlov V, Klein M, Lucker S, Friedrich MW, Kellermann J, Stahl DA, Loy A, Wagner M (2005) Lateral gene transfer of dissimilatory (bi)sulfite reductase revisited. J Bacteriol 187:2203–2208

    Article  PubMed  CAS  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NBRC), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, 292-0818, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

    Koji Mori

Authors
  1. Koji Mori
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Koji Mori .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Stephen Lory

  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this entry

Cite this entry

Mori, K. (2014). The Family Thermodesulfobacteriaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30120-9_366

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation