In taxonomy, Thermoplasma is a genus of the Thermoplasmataceae.[1]
| Thermoplasma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
| Class: | Thermoplasmata |
| Order: | Thermoplasmatales |
| Family: | Thermoplasmataceae |
| Genus: | Thermoplasma Darland et al. 1970 |
| Type species | |
| Thermoplasma acidophilum Darland et al. 1970
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| Species | |
Thermoplasma is a genus of archaea. It belongs to the Thermoplasmata, which thrive in acidic and high-temperature environments. Thermoplasma are facultative anaerobes and respire using sulfur and organic carbon. They do not contain a cell wall but instead contain a unique membrane composed mainly of a tetraether lipoglycan containing atypical archaeal tetraether lipid attached to a glucose- and mannose-containing oligosaccharide. This lipoglycan is presumably responsible for the acid and thermal stability of the Thermoplasma membrane.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Thermoplasma. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
Further reading
editScientific journals
edit- Ruepp, A.; Graml, W.; Santos-Martinez, M.-L.; Koretke, K.K.; Volker, C.; Werner Mews, H.; Frishman, D.; Stocker, S.; 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. [1]
- Darland G; Brock TD; Samsonoff W; Conti SF (1970). "A thermophilic, acidophilic mycoplasma isolated from a coal refuse pile". Science. 170 (3965): 1416–1418. Bibcode:1970Sci...170.1416D. doi:10.1126/science.170.3965.1416. PMID 5481857. S2CID 32881484.
- Ma, Chao; Pathak, Chinar; Jang, Sunbok; Lee, Sang Jae; Nam, Minjoo; Kim, Soon-Jong; Im, Hookang; Lee, Bong-Jin (October 2014). "Structure of Thermoplasma volcanium Ard1 belongs to N-acetyltransferase family member suggesting multiple ligand binding modes with acetyl coenzyme A and coenzyme A". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1844 (10): 1790–1797. doi:10.1016/j.bbapap.2014.07.011. PMID 25062911.
- Azami, Yasuhiro; Hattori, Ai; Nishimura, Hiroto; Kawaide, Hiroshi; Yoshimura, Tohru; Hemmi, Hisashi (Jun 6, 2014). "(R)-Mevalonate 3-Phosphate Is an Intermediate of the Mevalonate Pathway in Thermoplasma acidophilum". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289 (23): 15957–15967. doi:10.1074/jbc.M114.562686. PMC 4047369. PMID 24755225.
Scientific books
edit- Madigan, M.T. & Martinko, J.M. (2005). Brock Biology of Microorganisms (11th ed.). Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Reysenbach, A-L (2001). "Family I. Thermoplasmataceae fam. nov.". In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.