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The Family Acidothermaceae

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The Prokaryotes

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Family Acidothermaceae, within the order Actinomycetales, contains thermophilic bacteria isolated from thermal springs and placed in genus Acidothermus. Genus Acidothermus was found and isolated from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, in the course of a search for thermostable cellulases (Mohagheghi et al. Int J Syst Bacteriol 36:435–443, 1986). Acidothermus cellulolyticus is presently the sole species, in the sole genus of the family Acidothermaceae. A 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic study has found Acidothermus to be most closely related to Frankia; however, other genes have yielded different topologies. The genome of A. cellulolyticus strain 11B has been sequenced recently. Several genes for plant biomass degradation have been characterized; the thermostable properties of A. cellulolyticus enzymes for both cellulose and hemicellulose degradation have value for biotechnological applications.

The family Acidothermaceae was initially described as phylogenetically close to Frankia (Frankiaceae), Cryptosporangium (Cryptosporangiaceae), Geodermatophilaceae, (Geodermatophilaceae), Nakamurella (Nakamurellaceae), and Sporichthya (Sporichthyaceae) and grouped into suborder Frankineae. However, this suborder is now an order, Frankiales, and now considered to contain six families: besides the Frankiaceae the Acidothermaceae, the Cryptosporangiaceae, the Geodermatophilaceae, the Nakamurellaceae, and the Sporichthyaceae (Normand P et al. 2012).

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Alison M. Berry

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA

    Ravi D. Barabote

  3. Ecologie Microbienne, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5557, Université Lyon I, Université Lyon, 16 rue Dubois, Villeurbanne, 69622, Cedex, France

    Philippe Normand

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  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

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

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  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

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Berry, A.M., Barabote, R.D., Normand, P. (2014). The Family Acidothermaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30138-4_199

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