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Thermoplasma
Scientific classification
Domain:Archaea
Phylum:Euryarchaeota
Class:Thermoplasmata
Order:Thermoplasmatales
Family:Thermoplasmataceae
Genus:Thermoplasma
Species
  • T. acidophilum
  • T. sp. P61
  • T. sp. S01
  • T. sp. S02
  • T. sp. XT101
  • T. sp. XT102
  • T. sp. XT103
  • T. sp. XT107
  • T. volcanium
  • uncultured Thermoplasma sp.
Synonyms
  • Thermoplasma Darland et al. 1970
In taxonomy, Thermoplasma is a genus of the Thermoplasmataceae.[1]

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.

Currently the genus Thermoplasma contains two species, T. acidophilum and T. volcanium. T. acidophilum was originally isolated from a self-heating coal refuse pile, at pH 2 and 59 °C. Many T. volcanium strains have been isolated from solfatara fields throughout the world. Both species are highly flagellated. The genomes for both T. acidophilum (Ruepp, 2000) and T. volcanicum have been sequenced.

References

1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Thermoplasma. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.

Further reading

Scientific journals

  • Ruepp, A., Graml, W., Santos-Martinez, M.-L., Koretke, K.K., Volker, C., Werner Mews, H., Frishman, D., Stocker, S., Lupas, A.N. and Baumeister, W. (2000). "The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum". Nature 407: 508-513.  http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v407/n6803/full/407508a0_fs.html
  • Darland G, Brock TD, Samsonoff W, Conti SF (1970). "A thermophilic, acidophilic mycoplasma isolated from a coal refuse pile". Science 170: 1416–1418. PMID 5481857. 

Scientific books

  • Madigan, M.T. and 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 and 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 978-0387987712. 

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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Archaea
Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990

Phyla

Crenarchaeota
Euryarchaeota
Korarchaeota
Nanoarchaeota
ARMAN
The Archaea (
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Euryarchaeota
Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990

Classes
  • Archaeoglobi
  • Halobacteria
  • Methanobacteria
  • Methanococci
  • Methanomicrobia
  • Methanopyri
  • Thermococci
  • Thermoplasmata
Synonyms

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Thermoplasmata

Order
  • Thermoplasmatales
Synonyms
  • Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002
In taxonomy, the Thermoplasmata are a class of the Euryarchaeota.[1]

All are acidophiles, growing optimally at pH below 2.
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Thermoplasmataceae

Genus
  • Thermoplasma
Synonyms
  • Thermoplasmataceae Reysenbach 2002
In taxonomy, the Thermoplasmataceae are a family of the Thermoplasmatales.
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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In scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different scientific names used for a single taxon. Usage and terminology are different for zoology and botany.

Zoology

In zoological nomenclature, synonyms are different scientific names that pertain to the same taxon, for example
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Taxonomy, sometimes alpha taxonomy, is the science of finding, describing and categorising organisms, thus giving rise to taxonomic groups or taxa, which may then be named.
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Thermoplasmataceae

Genus
  • Thermoplasma
Synonyms
  • Thermoplasmataceae Reysenbach 2002
In taxonomy, the Thermoplasmataceae are a family of the Thermoplasmatales.
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Archaea
Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990

Phyla

Crenarchaeota
Euryarchaeota
Korarchaeota
Nanoarchaeota
ARMAN
The Archaea (
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Thermoplasmata

Order
  • Thermoplasmatales
Synonyms
  • Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002
In taxonomy, the Thermoplasmata are a class of the Euryarchaeota.[1]

All are acidophiles, growing optimally at pH below 2.
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A facultative anaerobic organism is an organism, usually a bacterium, that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present but is also capable of switching to fermentation. In contrast, obligate anaerobes die in presence of oxygen.
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6
(strongly acidic oxide)
Electronegativity 2.58 (Pauling scale)
Ionization energies
(more) 1st: 999.6 kJmol−1
2nd: 2252 kJmol−1
3rd: 3357 kJmol−1

Atomic radius 100 pm
Atomic radius (calc.
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Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (or simple sugar), is an important carbohydrate in biology. The living cell uses it as a source of energy and metabolic intermediate.
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Mannose is a sugar monomer of the hexose series of carbohydrates.

Metabolism

Mannose enters the carbohydrate metabolism stream in two steps:
  • First it undergoes phosphorylation to mannose-6-phosphate by hexokinase.

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A mudpot or paint pot is a sort of hot spring or fumarole consisting of a pool of usually bubbling mud.

Mudpots form in high-temperature geothermal areas where water is in short supply.
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