Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Brock et al. 1972
Taxonomy in NCBI database: Archaea; Crenarchaeota; Thermoprotei; Sulfolobales; Sulfolobaceae.
8929T <-- DSM 639 <-- T. D. Brock 98-3.
Accessioned in 1993.
=ATCC 33909 =DSM 639 =IFO 15157 =NBRC 15157 =NCIMB 11770.
Type strain [3318].
Medium: 165; Temperature: 70°C; Rehydration fluid: 165.
Source: Locomotive Spring in Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA [3318].
Morphology: [3318,3319].
Biochemistry/Physiology: [3318,3679,3792].
Quinone: Caldariellaquinone [3691].
Polar lipid: [3680,3792,3950,4229].
G+C (mol%): 41 (Bd), 37 (Tm), 39 (HPLC) [3319], 39.9 (Bd) [3660].
DNA-DNA relatedness: [3320,3322,3323,3496,3497,3660,3698,3700].
Phylogeny: 5S rRNA [3697], 5S rRNA gene (U05019) [3666], 16S rRNA gene (D14876, D14053) [3755,4080], 23S rRNA gene (U32320) [4111], EF-1α gene (X52382) [3981], EF-2 gene [3869].
Other taxonomic data: DNA-dependent RNA polymerase [3319,3696,3811,3812]; Polyamine [3632,3756]; S-layer component profile [3679]; Whole-cell protein profile [3792].
Genome sequence: CP000077 [6051].
More information: Identity of the strain [3678]; Preservation [3716]; S-layer [3758].
NCBI Taxonomy ID: 2285.
Publication(s) using this strain [A04042, A04046, A04221, A06021, A19512].