Name | Exercise 2 - Accession no. (nucleotide) |
Coppersmith | DQ810290 |
Dela Merced | U33536 |
Griffin | U47108 |
Holmes | AY247639 |
Janumov | KC408876 |
Landry | L11920 |
Littwin | J04479 |
Osman | AF193842 |
Park | EU708319 |
Quevedo Villanueva | AF038544 |
Shaw | AF038541 |
Shibkov | AF071212 |
Stinson | AY247644 |
Thompson | U86403 |
Torres | FJ215762 |
Bacterial species | Comments / Notes of interest |
Acinetobacter calcoaceticus | Soil and water bacterium; source of hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections |
Anoxybacillus sp. NB | Thermophile from Turkish hot spring |
Bacillus stearothermophilus | Thermophile, source of Bst restriction enzymes and a DNA polymerase used for LAMP |
Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus | Thermophile that can breakdown wood polymers like cellulose & lignin; produces hydrogen gas |
Campylobacter jejuni | Common bacteria in animal intestines, source of food-borne illness (especially associated with poultry) |
Geobacillus anatolicus | Hyperthermophile from Turkish hot spring (98°C) |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Causative agent of tuberculosis |
Rhizobium leguminosarum | Nitrogen-fixing bacterium associated with legumes |
Salmonella typhimurium | Major causative agent of human food-borne illness |
Serpulina hyodysenteriae | (aka Brachyspira hyodysenteriae) Causative agent of swine dysentery |
Staphylococcus aureus | Normal human microbiota; causative agent of skin infections and many life-threatening infections such as pneumonia, meningitis, toxic shock, sepsis |
Streptococcus pneumoniae | Common in human microbiota; causative agent of pneumonia especially in persons with weak immune systems |
Thermococcus sp. 9°N-7 | Hyperthermophile from a submarine thermal vent (2,500 meters depth), near equator (9°N) at the East Pacific Rise |
Thermomicrobium roseum | Rose-pink thermophile first isolated from Toadstool Spring in Yellowstone NP |
Thermus thermophilus | Thermophile, first discovered in a Japanese hot spring |