Thermoplasma

Thermoplasma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Phylum:	Methanobacteriota
Class:	Thermoplasmata
Order:	Thermoplasmatales
Family:	Thermoplasmataceae
Genus:	Thermoplasma Darland et al. 1970
Type species
Thermoplasma acidophilum Darland et al. 1970
Species
T. acidophilum "T. thiooxidans" T. volcanium

Thermoplasma is a genus of archaeans.[1] It belongs to the class 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

• List of Archaea genera

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Thermoplasma. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2014-06-25.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• 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

• 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.

External links

• Thermoplasma volcanium
• Thermoplasma acidophilum
• The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum