None of the authors of this manuscript has any financial or personal relationship with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence their work. , 2016). Organisms harvested at the early stationary phase were homogenized in 5% perchrolic acid (PCA). The PCA extract was subjected to a column of cation-exchange resin, Dowex 50WX8 (1 cm I.D. ¥ 3 cm), and eluted with 6M HCl to concentrate the polyamines. The concentrated polyamines were analyzed by high-performance (high speed) liquid chromatography (HPLC) on a Hitachi L6000 equipped with a column of cation-exchange resin, Hitachi 2619F (4 mm I.D. ¥ 50 mm) kept at 70∞C. Polyamines were eluted by a linear gradient of NaCl in citrate buffers (0.045 M sodium citrate-0.061 M citric acid-0.063 M NaCl, pH 3.9 and 0.20 M sodium citrate-2.0 M NaCl, pH 7.6) and detected by post-labeled fluorometry using a Hitachi F1050 fluorescence spectrometer after heating with o-phthalaldehyde reagent at 70∞C (Hamana, 2002b RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan Key Words: homopyropentamine; penta-amine; polyamine; pyropentamine; thermophilic bacteria; Thermus Cellular polyamine distribution profiles in extremophilic bacteria and archaea are related to their optimum growth temperature, pH, and salt concentrations, as well as their phylogenetically classified locations (Hamana, 2002a;Hamana and Hosoya, 2006;Hamana and Matsuzaki, 1992). The distribution of linear penta-amines, linear hexaamines, and branched penta-amines, have been reported in extensive bacterial and archaeal hyper-/extreme thermophiles (Hamana et al