Thermoplasma acidophilum

Species of archaeon

Thermoplasma acidophilum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Thermoplasmata
Order:
Thermoplasmatales
Family:
Thermoplasmataceae
Genus:
Thermoplasma
Species:
Thermoplasma acidophilum

Darland et al. 1970

Thermoplasma acidophilum is an archaeon, the type species of its genus.[1] T. acidophilum was originally isolated from a self-heating coal refuse pile, at pH 2 and 59 °C. Its genome has been sequenced.[2]

It is highly flagellated and grows optimally at 56 °C (133 °F) and pH 1.8. The size of a cell is about 1 μm. T. acidophilum lacks a cell wall and the cell membrane is exposed directly outside. T. acidophilum shows various cell shapes depending upon growth conditions and stages.

The full genome of Thermoplasma acidophilum has been sequenced. It is only 1565 kb in size.[3]

See also

  • Thermoplasma volcanium

References

  1. ^ DARLAND (G.), BROCK (T.D.), SAMSONOFF (W.) and CONTI (S.F.): A thermophilic, acidophilic mycoplasma isolated from a coal refuse pile. Science (Washington), 1970, 170, 1416-1418.
  2. ^ Baumeister, Wolfgang; Ruepp, Andreas; Graml, Werner; Santos-Martinez, Martha-Leticia; Koretke, Kristin K.; Volker, Craig; et al. (2000). "The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum". Nature. 407 (6803): 508–513. Bibcode:2000Natur.407..508R. doi:10.1038/35035069. PMID 11029001.
  3. ^ Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (October 10, 2006). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 109. ISBN 0387254935. Retrieved October 9, 2016.

Further reading

  • Ogino, Hiromi; Ishino, Sinoko; Haugland, Gyri; Birkeland, Nils-Kare; Daisuke, Kohda; Ishino, Yoshizumi (September 2014). "Activation of the MCM helicase from the thermophilic archaeon, Thermoplasma acidophilum by interactions with GINS and Cdc6-2". Extremophiles. 18 (5): 915–924. doi:10.1007/s00792-014-0673-6. PMID 25107272. S2CID 229881.
  • Segerer, Andreas; Langworthy, Thomas A.; Stetter, Karl O. (1988). "Thermoplasma acidophilum and Thermoplasma volcanium sp. nov. from Solfatara Fields". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 10 (2): 161–171. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(88)80031-6. ISSN 0723-2020.
  • Wolf, Stefan; Lottspeich, Friedrich; Baumeister, Wolfgang (1993). "Ubiquitin found in the archaebacterium Thermoplasma acidophilum". FEBS Letters. 326 (1–3): 42–44. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(93)81757-Q. ISSN 0014-5793. PMID 8392003. S2CID 26682633.
  • Sun, Na; Beck, Florian; Knispel, Roland Wilhelm; Siedler, Frank; Scheffer, Beatrix; Nickell, Stephan; Baumeister, Wolfgang; Nagy, István (2007). "Proteomics analysis of Thermoplasma acidophilum with a focus on protein complexes". Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 6 (3): 492–502. doi:10.1074/mcp.m600322-mcp200. PMID 17151018.
  • Lee, Sun Bok; Jung, Jin Hwa (2006). "Identification and characterization of Thermoplasma acidophilum glyceraldehyde dehydrogenase: a new class of NADP+-specific aldehyde dehydrogenase". Biochemical Journal. 397 (1): 131–8. doi:10.1042/BJ20051763. ISSN 0264-6021. PMC 1479753. PMID 16566751.
  • Posner, Mareike G.; Upadhyay, Abhishek; Bagby, Stefan; Hough, David W.; Danson, Michael J. (2009). "A unique lipoylation system in the Archaea". FEBS Journal. 276 (15): 4012–4022. doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07110.x. ISSN 1742-464X. PMID 19594830.
  • Christiansen, C.; Freundt, E. A.; Black, F. T. (1975). "Genome Size and Deoxyribonucleic Acid Base Composition of Thermoplasma acidophilum". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 25 (2): 99–101. doi:10.1099/00207713-25-2-99. ISSN 0020-7713.
  • Yamashiro, K.; Yamagishi, A. (2005). "Characterization of the DNA Gyrase from the Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum". Journal of Bacteriology. 187 (24): 8531–8536. doi:10.1128/JB.187.24.8531-8536.2005. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 1316996. PMID 16321962.
  • Kim, Hyun Sook; Kwak, Geun-Hee; Lee, Kitaik; Jo, Chang-Hwa; Hwang, Kwang Yeon (2014). "Structural and biochemical analysis of a type II free methionine-R-sulfoxide reductase from Thermoplasma acidophilum". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 560: 10–19. doi:10.1016/j.abb.2014.07.009. PMID 25043974.
  • Tomikawa, Chie; Takayuki, Ohira; Inoue, Yasushi; Kawamura, Takuya; Yamagishi, Akihiko; Suzuki, Tsutomu; Hori, Hiroyuki (September 2013). "Distinct tRNA modifications in the thermo-acidophilic archaeon, Thermoplasma acidophilum". FEBS Letters. 587 (21): 3575–80. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2013.09.021. PMID 24076028.
  • Azami, Yasuhiro; Hattori, Ai; Nishimura, Hiroto; Kawaide, Hiroshi; Yoshimura, Tohru; Hemmi, Hisashi (2014). "(R)-Mevalonate 3-Phosphate Is an Intermediate of the Mevalonate Pathway in Thermoplasma acidophilum". J. Biol. Chem. 289 (23): 15957–15967. doi:10.1074/jbc.M114.562686. PMC 4047369. PMID 24755225.

External links

  • "Thermoplasma acidophilum" at the Encyclopedia of Life Edit this at Wikidata
  • LPSN
  • Type strain of Thermoplasma acidophilum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Taxon identifiers
Thermoplasma acidophilum


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