Thermoplasma acidophilum explained

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 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

Further reading

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

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Thermoplasma acidophilum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and 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. Mewes. H. Werner. Frishman. Dmitrij. Stocker. Susanne. Lupas. Andrei N.. 6. 2000 . The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum . Nature . 407 . 6803. 508–513 . 2000Natur.407..508R . 10.1038/35035069 . 11029001. free.
3. Book: Stanley Falkow. Eugene Rosenberg. Karl-Heinz Schleifer. Erko Stackebrandt. The Prokaryotes. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. 109. October 10, 2006. October 9, 2016. 0387254935.