Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus

Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus is a species of thermophilic, anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria. It was isolated from a piece of wood floating in the flow from a freshwater thermal spring in New Zealand in 1987, and tentatively named Caldocellum saccharolyticum.[2] In 1994, the isolate was more thoroughly characterized physiologically, and classified to a new genus, Caldicellusiruptor, based on 16S RNA sequence.[1] It is the type species, and more thoroughly studied member of its genus.

Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:
Thermoanaerobacterales Family III
Genus:
Caldicellulosiruptor
Species:
C. saccharolyticus
Binomial name
Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus
Rainey et al, 1994[1]

References
  1. Rainey, F. A., A. M. Donnison, P. H. Janssen, D. Saul, A. Rodrigo, P. L. Bergquist, R. M. Daniel, E. Stackebrandt, and H. W. Morgan. 1994. Description of Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov: an obligately anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium. FEMS Microbiol Lett 120:263-6.
  2. Sissons, C. H., K. R. Sharrock, R. M. Daniel, and H. W. Morgan. 1987. Isolation of cellulolytic anaerobic extreme thermophiles from new zealand thermal sites. Appl Environ Microbiol 53:832-8.
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