TY - JOUR

T1 - Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

AU - Quatrini, Raquel

AU - Johnson, D Barrie

N1 - Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

PY - 2019/3/1

Y1 - 2019/3/1

N2 - Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is by far the most widely studied of all extremely acidophilic prokaryotes. While it is found in many types of natural low-pH environments in a variety of geoclimatic contexts, it has been more widely cited in anthropogenic (mostly mine-impacted) environments. It is responsible for accelerating the oxidative dissolution of sulfide minerals, causing the generation of polluting acidic metal-rich drainage waters but also facilitating the recovery of base and precious metals from mineral leachates. It can colonize barren mineral landscapes, is a driver of ecological successions in acidic biotopes, and is an important model organism in astrobiology. It catalyses the dissimilatory oxidation of iron, sulfur, and hydrogen, and the reduction of iron and sulfur, and has a major impact in the geochemical cycling of these elements in low-pH environments. This infographic summarizes the fundamental phylogeny, physiology and genomic features of this extremophile.

AB - Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is by far the most widely studied of all extremely acidophilic prokaryotes. While it is found in many types of natural low-pH environments in a variety of geoclimatic contexts, it has been more widely cited in anthropogenic (mostly mine-impacted) environments. It is responsible for accelerating the oxidative dissolution of sulfide minerals, causing the generation of polluting acidic metal-rich drainage waters but also facilitating the recovery of base and precious metals from mineral leachates. It can colonize barren mineral landscapes, is a driver of ecological successions in acidic biotopes, and is an important model organism in astrobiology. It catalyses the dissimilatory oxidation of iron, sulfur, and hydrogen, and the reduction of iron and sulfur, and has a major impact in the geochemical cycling of these elements in low-pH environments. This infographic summarizes the fundamental phylogeny, physiology and genomic features of this extremophile.

KW - Acidithiobacillus/classification

KW - Hydrogen-Ion Concentration

KW - Iron/metabolism

KW - Metals/metabolism

KW - Oxidation-Reduction

KW - Phylogeny

KW - Sulfides/metabolism

KW - Sulfur/metabolism

U2 - 10.1016/j.tim.2018.11.009

DO - 10.1016/j.tim.2018.11.009

M3 - Article

C2 - 30563727

VL - 27

SP - 282

EP - 283

JO - Trends in Microbiology

JF - Trends in Microbiology

SN - 0966-842X

IS - 3

ER -