Thermoleophilum album is a bacterium obligate for thermophily and n-alkane substrates, the type species of its genus. It is Gram-negative, aerobic, small, and rod-shaped. It lacks pigmentation, motility, and the ability to form endospores, with type strain ATCC 35263.[1]
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| Species: | T. album
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| Thermoleophilum album Zarilla and Perry 1986
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edit- Yakimov, M. M. (2003). "Thermoleophilum album and Thermoleophilum minutum are culturable representatives of group 2 of the Rubrobacteridae (Actinobacteria)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (2): 377–380. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02425-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 12710601.
- Allgood, G. S.; Perry, J. J. (1986). "Characterization of a manganese-containing catalase from the obligate thermophile Thermoleophilum album". Journal of Bacteriology. 168 (2): 563–567. doi:10.1128/jb.168.2.563-567.1986. PMC 213517. PMID 3782016.
- Golyshin, P. N.; Lünsdorf, H.; Ferrer, M.; Yakimov, M. M. (2010). "Thermoleophilum: A Gram-Positive Hydrocarbonoclastic Thermophilic Bacterium". Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology: 1881–1886. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_137.
- Perry, Jerome J. (1992). "The Genus Thermoleophilum". The Prokaryotes: 3780–3784. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-2191-1_46. ISBN 978-1-4757-2193-5.
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