Aciduliprofundum is a genus of the Euryarchaeota.[1]

Aciduliprofundum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
"Aciduliprofundales"
Family:
"Aciduliprofundaceae"
Genus:
"Ca. Aciduliprofundum"

Reysenbach et al. 2006
Type species
"Ca. Aciduliprofundum boonei"
Reysenbach et al. 2006
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A. boonei, is an extremophile, a thermoacidophilic archaeon that lives in oceanic deep-sea hydrothermal vents, that has been shown to produce antibiotics against common pathogenic bacteria.[2] It is one of a group of euryarchaeotes classed as DHVE2 – Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Euryarchaeota 2, and the only one to be isolated.[3] It is extremely widespread and yet has not been able to be cultivated.[4] For this reason it may sometimes have the taxonomic addition of Candidatus to its name - meaning a candidate for, until proven.

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  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Aciduliprofundum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ "Life's extremists may be an untapped source of antibacterial drugs".
  3. ^ Flores, GE; Wagner, ID; Liu, Y; Reysenbach, AL (2012). "Distribution, abundance, and diversity patterns of the thermoacidophilic "deep-sea hydrothermal vent euryarchaeota 2"". Frontiers in Microbiology. 3: 47. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2012.00047. PMC 3282477. PMID 22363325.
  4. ^ Reysenbach, AL; Liu, Y; Banta, AB; Beveridge, TJ; Kirshtein, JD; Schouten, S; Tivey, MK; Von Damm, KL; Voytek, MA (27 July 2006). "A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents" (PDF). Nature. 442 (7101): 444–7. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..444R. doi:10.1038/nature04921. hdl:1912/1408. PMID 16871216. S2CID 4315587.

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