Thermoplasma
Sign in to saveThermoplasma is a genus of archaeans. 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.
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GENUS
- KingdomArchaea
- PhylumThermoplasmatota
- ClassThermoplasmata
- OrderThermoplasmatales
- FamilyThermoplasmataceae
Thermoplasma（テルモプラズマ属、サーモプラズマ属）は、陸上の温泉などに生息する好熱、好酸、通性嫌気性の古細菌の一属。古細菌のモデル生物の一つで、細胞壁を欠くなどの特徴で知られる。学名はギリシア語で「熱(θέρμη)」+「形作られたもの(Πλάσμα)」という意味である。 単離は好熱古細菌の中では最も早く、1960年代後半にインディアナ州の炭鉱のボタ山から発見された。1980年代になると各地の温泉などからも単離され始め、日本でも温泉からの報告例がある。
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Research
704 papers- The Main (Glyco) Phospholipid (MPL) of Thermoplasma acidophilum.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
- The Chaperones of the archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum.Journal of structural biology · 2001
- Substrate Promiscuity of Thermoplasma acidophilum Malic Enzyme for CO(2) Fixation Reaction.JACS Au · 2024
- Catalytic mechanism of the 20S proteasome of Thermoplasma acidophilum revealed by X-ray crystallography.Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology · 1995
- The proteasome.Current opinion in structural biology · 1997
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Thermoplasma is a genus of archaeans. 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