Picrophilus torridus

Picrophilus torridus
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Thermoplasmata
Order: Thermoplasmatales
Family: Picrophilaceae
Genus: Picrophilus
Species: P. torridus
Binomial name
Picrophilus torridus
Schleper et al. 1996

Picrophilus torridus is a species of Archaea described in 1996.[1] Picrophilus torridus was found in soil near a hot spring in Hokkaido, Japan. The pH of the soil was less than 0.5.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 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" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. International Union of Microbiological Societies. 46 (3): 814–816. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-3-814. ISSN 1466-5034. OCLC 807119723. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  2. ↑ 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

  • Arora, Jasmine; Goswami, Kasturi; Saha, Swati (Jan 2014). "Characterization of the Replication Initiator Orc1/Cdc6 from the Archaeon Picrophilus torridus". Journal of Bacteriology. 196 (2): 276–286. doi:10.1128/JB.01020-13. PMC 3911243. PMID 24187082.
  • Frick, Eduard; Spatzal, Thomas; Gerhardt, Stefan; Andreas, Krämer; Oliver, Einsle; Wolfgang, Hüttel (13 April 2014). "Structural and functional characterization of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Picrophilus torridus". Extremophiles. 18 (4): 641–651. doi:10.1007/s00792-014-0645-x. ISSN 1433-4909.
  • Rajput, Rinky; Verma, Ved Vrat; Chaudhary, Vishal; Gupta, Rani (January 2013). "A hydrolytic gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase from thermo-acidophilic archaeon Picrophilus torridus: binding pocket mutagenesis and transpeptidation". Extremophiles. 17 (1): 29–41. doi:10.1007/s00792-012-0490-8. PMID 23104165.
  • Reher, Matthias; Fuhrer, Tobias; Bott, Michael; Schonheit, Peter (5 December 2009). "The Nonphosphorylative Entner-Doudoroff Pathway in the Thermoacidophilic Euryarchaeon Picrophilus torridus Involves a Novel 2-Keto-3-Deoxygluconate- Specific Aldolase". Journal of Bacteriology. 192 (23): 964–974. doi:10.1128/JB.01281-09. PMC 2812977. PMID 20023024.
  • Thurmer, Andrea; Voigt, Birgit; Angelov, Angel; Albrecht, Dirk; Hecker, Michael; Liebl, Wolfgang (December 2011). "Proteomic analysis of the extremely thermoacidophilic archaeon Picrophilus torridus at pH and temperature values close to its growth limit". Proteomics. 11 (23): 4559–4568. doi:10.1002/pmic.201000829. PMID 22114103.
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