Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus

Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus is a thermophilic bacterium species from the genus of Streptomyces.^[1][3][4] Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus was claimed to be diazotrophic and to produce a new kind of nitrogenase, but new evidence suggests that it can´t fix N2 gas.^[4]

Further reading

• MacKellar, Drew; Lieber, Lucas; Norman, Jeffrey S.; Bolger, Anthony; Tobin, Cory; Murray, James W.; Oksaksin, Mehtap; Chang, Roger L.; Ford, Tyler J.; Nguyen, Peter Q.; Woodward, Jimmy; Permingeat, Hugo R.; Joshi, Neel S.; Silver, Pamela A.; Usadel, Björn; Rutherford, Alfred W.; Friesen, Maren L.; Prell, Jürgen (1 February 2016). "Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus does not fix nitrogen". Scientific Reports. 6: 20086. doi:10.1038/srep20086. 
• Ottow, Johannes C.G. (2011). Mikrobiologie von Böden Biodiversität, Ökophysiologie und Metagenomik (1. ed.). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3-642-00824-0. 
• ed.-in-chief, George M. Garrity (2012). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology. (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Science + Business Media. ISBN 0-387-68233-3. 

See also

• List of Streptomyces species

References

1. 1 2 LPSN bacterio.net
2. ↑ Straininfo of Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus
3. ↑ UniProt
4. 1 2 MacKellar, Drew; Lieber, Lucas; Norman, Jeffrey S.; Bolger, Anthony; Tobin, Cory; Murray, James W.; Oksaksin, Mehtap; Chang, Roger L.; Ford, Tyler J.; Nguyen, Peter Q.; Woodward, Jimmy; Permingeat, Hugo R.; Joshi, Neel S.; Silver, Pamela A.; Usadel, Björn; Rutherford, Alfred W.; Friesen, Maren L.; Prell, Jürgen (1 February 2016). "Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus does not fix nitrogen". Scientific Reports. 6: 20086. doi:10.1038/srep20086.