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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Approximately four billion years ago, the first microorganisms to thrive on earth were anaerobic chemoautotrophic thermophiles, a specific group of extremophiles that survive and operate at temperatures ∼50 – 125°C and do not use molecular oxygen (O2 ...
Bradley G. Lusk
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Insights on Rigidity and flexibility at the Global and Local Levels of Protein Structures and their Roles in Homologous Psychrophilic, Mesophilic and Thermophilic Proteins: A Computational Study [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The rigidity and flexibility of homologous psychrophilic(P), mesophilic(M) and thermophilic(T) proteins have been investigated at the global and local levels in terms of packing factor and atomic fluctuations obtained from B-factors. For comparison of atomic fluctuations, correction of errors by considering errors in B-factors from all sources in a ...
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Citrate synthase proteins in extremophilic organisms: Studies within a structure-based model [PDF]
Journal of Chemical Physics 141, 235102 (2014), 2015 We study four citrate synthase homodimeric proteins within a structure-based coarse-grained model. Two of these proteins come from thermophilic bacteria, one from a cryophilic bacterium and one from a mesophilic organism; three are in the closed and two in the open conformations. Even though the proteins belong to the same fold, the model distinguishes
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 The genus Carboxydocella forms a deeply branching family in the class Clostridia and is currently represented by three physiologically diverse species of thermophilic prokaryotes. The type strain of the type species, Carboxydocella thermautotrophica 41T,
Stepan V. Toshchakov +11 more
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 The use of methanol as carbon source for biotechnological processes has recently attracted great interest due to its relatively low price, high abundance, high purity, and the fact that it is a non-food raw material.
Luciana Fernandes Brito +6 more
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Microorganisms, 2019 Geobacillus sp. JF8 is a thermophilic biphenyl and naphthalene degrader. To identify the naphthalene degradation genes, cis-naphthalene dihydrodiol dehydrogenase was purified from naphthalene-grown cells, and its N-terminal amino acid sequence was ...
Daisuke Miyazawa +6 more
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Anaerobic carboxydotrophic bacteria in geothermal springs identified using stable isotope probing
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Carbon monoxide (CO) is a potential energy and carbon source for thermophilic bacteria in geothermal environments. Geothermal sites ranging in temperature from 45–65°C were investigated for the presence and activity of anaerobic CO-oxidizing bacteria ...
Allyson Lee Brady +4 more
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Molecular Tunnels in Enzymes and Thermophily: A Case Study on the Relationship to Growth Temperature
Microorganisms, 2018 Developments in protein expression, analysis and computational capabilities are decisively contributing to a better understanding of the structure of proteins and their relationship to function.
Juan Miguel Gonzalez
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PCL enzymatic hydrolysis: a mechanistic study [PDF]
ACS Omega, 2019, 2019 Accumulation of plastic waste is a major environmental problem. Enzymes, particularly esterases, play an important role in the biodegradation of polyesters. These enzymes are usually only active on aliphatic polyesters, but a few have showed catalytic activity for semi-aromatic polyesters.
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 A novel thermophilic, microaerophilic, anoxygenic and chlorophototrophic member of the phylum Acidobacteria, Chloracidobacterium thermophilum strain BT, was isolated from a cyanobacterial enrichment culture derived from microbial mats associated with ...
Donald A Bryant +2 more
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