Turicibacter
{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}
{{Taxobox
| image = TuricibacterCells2.png
| image_caption =Turicibacter sp. H121 cells under microscope
| image2 = Turicibacter sp. H121 colony.png
| image2_caption =Turicibacter sp. H121 colonies
| domain = Bacteria
| phylum = Bacillota
| classis = Erysipelotrichia
| ordo = Erysipelotrichales
| familia = Turicibacteraceae
| familia_authority = Verbarg et al. 2020
| genus = Turicibacter
| genus_authority = Bosshard, Zbinden & Altwegg 2002
| type_species = Turicibacter sanguinis
| type_species_authority = Bosshard, Zbinden & Altwegg 2002
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- T. bilis
- T. faecis
- T. sanguinis
}}
Turicibacter is a genus in the Bacillota phylum of bacteria that has most commonly been found in the guts of animals.{{cite journal|vauthors=Auchtung TA, Holder ME, Gesell JR, Ajami NJ, Duarte RT, Itoh K, Caspi RR, Petrosino JF, Horai R, Zárate-Bladés CR|title=Complete Genome Sequence of Turicibacter sp. Strain H121, Isolated from the Feces of a Contaminated Germ-Free Mouse|journal=Genome Announcements|date=2016|volume=4|issue=2|pages=e00114-16|pmid=27013036|doi=10.1128/genomeA.00114-16|pmc=4807225}}
The genus is named after the city in which it was first isolated from the blood of a human, Zurich (Latin = Turicum), Switzerland.{{cite journal|vauthors=Bosshard PP, Zbinden R, Altwegg M|title=Turicibacter sanguinis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=2002|volume=52|pages=1263–1266|pmid=12148638|doi=10.1099/00207713-52-4-1263|doi-access=free}}
Phylogeny
The position of Turicibacter within the Bacillota could not be resolved using 16S rRNA gene-based analyses. However, it was tentatively placed in the class Bacilli, then the class Erysipelotrichia.{{cite book|last1=Bosshard|first1=PP|veditors=De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer K, Whitman WB|title=Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology, 2nd ed. The Firmicutes|publisher=Springer|pages=1314–1315|chapter=Genus VIII. Turicibacter Bosshard, Zbinden and Altwegg 2002, 1266VP}}
In a tree built using a concatenated protein alignment containing data from two draft Turicibacter genomes, the group was placed at the base of the class Bacilli.{{cite journal|vauthors=Segata N, Börnigen D, Morgan XC, Huttenhower C|title=PhyloPhlAn is a new method for improved phylogenetic and taxonomic placement of microbes|journal= Nature Communications|date=2013|volume=4|pages=2304|pmid= 23942190|doi=10.1038/ncomms3304|pmc=3760377}} Later analyses that also included amino acid sequences predicted by a complete Turicibacter genome came to the same conclusion.
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN){{cite web |author=A.C. Parte |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/turicibacter |title=Turicibacter |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) |display-authors=et al.}} and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).{{cite web |author=C.L. Schoch |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=191303&lvl=3&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |title=Turicibacter |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}
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