Picrophilus oshimae is a species of Archaea described in 1996.[1] Picrophilus oshimae was found in a fumarole in Hokkaido, Japan. The hot spring the fumarole was located in had a pH of 2.2.[2]
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Schleper; Pühler; Klenk & Zillig (July 1996). "Picrophilus oshimae and Picrophilus tomdus fam. nov., gen. nov., sp. nov., Two Species of Hyperacidophilic, Thermophilic, Heterotrophic, Aerobic Archae". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (3): 814–816. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-3-814. ISSN 1466-5034. OCLC 807119723.
- ^ Siddiqui; Thomas, eds. (2008). "Thermoacidophiles and their Protein Adaptation to Low pH and High Temperature". Protein Adaptation in Extremophiles. Nova Publishers. ISBN 9781604560190. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
Further reading
edit- L. C. M. van de Vossenberg, Jack; J. M. Driessen, Arnold; Zillig, Wolfram; Konings, W. N. (May 1998). "Bioenergetics and cytoplasmic membrane stability of the extremely acidophilic, thermophilic archaeon Picrophilus oshimae". Extremophiles. 2 (2): 67–74. doi:10.1007/s007920050044. PMID 9672680. S2CID 13181294.
- Angelov, Angel; Voss, Jo ̈rn; Liebl, Wolfgang (21 July 2011). "Characterization of Plasmid pPO1 from the Hyperacidophile Picrophilus oshimae". Archaea. 2011: 723604. doi:10.1155/2011/723604. PMC 3177234. PMID 21941462.
- Antranikian, Garabed; Serour, Ehab (August 2002). "Novel thermoactive glucoamylases from the thermoacidophilic Archaea Thermoplasma acidophilum, Picrophilus torridus and Picrophilus oshimae". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 81 (1–4): 73–83. doi:10.1023/A:1020525525490. PMID 12448707. S2CID 20337648.