Aciduliprofundum

{{Short description|Genus of archaea}}

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{{Taxobox

| domain = Archaea

| regnum = Euryarchaeota

| phylum = Euryarchaeota

| classis = Thermoplasmata

| ordo = "Aciduliprofundales"

| familia = "Aciduliprofundaceae"

| genus = "Ca. Aciduliprofundum"

| genus_authority = Reysenbach et al. 2006

| type_species = "Ca. Aciduliprofundum boonei"

| type_species_authority = Reysenbach et al. 2006

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• "Ca. A. boonei"

| synonyms =

• DHVE2

}}

Aciduliprofundum is a genus of the Euryarchaeota.See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=379546 webpage on Aciduliprofundum]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information | accessdate=2007-03-19}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://phys.org/news/2014-11-life-extremists-untapped-source-antibacterial.html|title = Life's extremists may be an untapped source of antibacterial drugs}} It is one of a group of euryarchaeotes classed as DHVE2 – Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Euryarchaeota 2, and the only one to be isolated.{{cite journal|last1=Flores|first1=GE|last2=Wagner|first2=ID|last3=Liu|first3=Y|last4=Reysenbach|first4=AL|title=Distribution, abundance, and diversity patterns of the thermoacidophilic "deep-sea hydrothermal vent euryarchaeota 2".|journal=Frontiers in Microbiology|date=2012|volume=3|pages=47|doi=10.3389/fmicb.2012.00047|pmid=22363325|pmc=3282477|doi-access=free}} It is extremely widespread and yet has not been able to be cultivated.{{cite journal|last1=Reysenbach|first1=AL|last2=Liu|first2=Y|last3=Banta|first3=AB|last4=Beveridge|first4=TJ|last5=Kirshtein|first5=JD|last6=Schouten|first6=S|last7=Tivey|first7=MK|last8=Von Damm|first8=KL|last9=Voytek|first9=MA|title=A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents.|journal=Nature|date=27 July 2006|volume=442|issue=7101|pages=444–7|doi=10.1038/nature04921|pmid=16871216|bibcode=2006Natur.442..444R|hdl=1912/1408|s2cid=4315587|url=http://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/1912/1408/1/Nature442444447.pdf|hdl-access=free}} For this reason it may sometimes have the taxonomic addition of Candidatus to its name - meaning a candidate for, until proven.