A hyperthermophile is an organism that thrives in extremely hot environments—from 60 °C (140 °F) upwards. An optimal temperature for the existence of hyperthermophiles...

single described species, Methanopyrus kandleri. It is a rod-shaped hyperthermophile, discovered on the wall of a black smoker from the Gulf of California...

50–64 °C (122–147 °F) Extreme thermophiles 65–79 °C (149–174 °F) Hyperthermophiles 80 °C (176 °F) and beyond, but not below 50 °C (122 °F) In a related...

Halophiles, organisms that thrive in highly salty environments, and hyperthermophiles, organisms that thrive in extremely hot environments, are examples...

anaerobic, extremophilic, model species of archaea. It is classified as a hyperthermophile because it thrives best under extremely high temperatures, and is notable...

submarine thermal springs and oil wells. It is an anaerobic organotroph hyperthermophile that is between 0.5–3.0 μm (20–118 μin) in diameter. Like the other...

320 km (200 mi) off Puget Sound near a hydrothermal vent, it is a hyperthermophile, able to reproduce at 121 °C (250 °F), hence its name. It was (at the...

Pyrodictium abyssi is a species of heterotrophic marine archaeal hyperthermophile that can grow at 110 °C (230 °F). Its type strain is AV2 (DSM 6158)....

recent common ancestor (MRCA) of bacteria and archaea was probably a hyperthermophile that lived about 2.5 billion–3.2 billion years ago. The earliest life...

Prieur, Daniel (July 2009). "Pyrococcus CH1, an obligate piezophilic hyperthermophile: extending the upper pressure-temperature limits for life". The ISME...

PMC 6095482. PMID 30114187. Stetter, Karl O (29 October 2006). "Hyperthermophiles in the history of life". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

environments that are normally fatal to most life-forms. Thermophiles and hyperthermophiles thrive in high temperatures. Psychrophiles thrive in extremely low...

high temperatures that kill most organisms. P. fumarii is known as a hyperthermophile obligately chemolithoautotroph. In the simplest terms, this archaea...

Thermophiles prefer temperatures from 50 to 70 °C (122 to 158 °F), while hyperthermophiles grow better at temperatures as high as 80 to 110 °C (176 to 230 °F)...

reverse gyrase topoisomerase is found exclusively in thermophiles and hyperthermophiles as it allows for coiling of DNA. The reverse gyrase enzyme requires...

PMID 24898023. Di Maio F, Egelman EH, et al. (2015). "A virus that infects a hyperthermophile encapsidates A-form DNA". Science. 348 (6237): 914–917. Bibcode:2015Sci...

Di Giulio, M. (2003) The universal ancestor was a thermophile or a hyperthermophile: Tests and further evidence. J Theor Biol 221: 425-436. Griffiths,...

was discovered in anaerobic archaea. It was proposed in 2008 for the hyperthermophile archeon Ignicoccus hospitalis. CO2 fixation is catalyzed by enoyl-CoA...

1007/bf01768019. PMID 660662. S2CID 1291732. Stetter KO (1996). "Hyperthermophiles in the history of life". Ciba Foundation Symposium. 202: 1–10, discussion...

depending on their growth habit. In contrast, catalase isolated from the hyperthermophile archaeon Pyrobaculum calidifontis has a temperature optimum of 90 °C...

compared to its relative Archaeoglobus. F. placidus was the first hyperthermophile discovered to grow anaerobically by oxidizing aromatic compounds such...

article discusses the Unique properties of hyperthermophilic archaea. Hyperthermophiles are organisms that can live at temperatures ranging between 70 and...

dependence on sulfur and are important as carbon fixers. There are hyperthermophiles in hydrothermal vents and other groups are the most abundant at depths...

wall among the Archaea consists of glycoprotein, and occurs in the hyperthermophiles, Halobacterium, and some methanogens. In Halobacterium, the proteins...

island has volcanic activity, it is a place where thermophiles and hyperthermophiles are found. The hyperthermophilic archaean Pyrococcus furiosus was...

structure of phosphoserine phosphatase from Methanococcus jannaschii, a hyperthermophile, at 1.8 A resolution". Structure. 9 (1): 65–71. doi:10.1016/s0969-2126(00)00558-x...

Pseudothermotoga. The genus Thermotoga represents the majority of existing hyperthermophiles and are unique in that they are wrapped in an outer membrane that...

pressure at such depth, but from the increased temperature. Judging from hyperthermophile organisms, the temperature limit is at about 120 °C (Strain 121 can...

and has also been isolated from the hot springs in Yellowstone. As a hyperthermophile, "A. aeolicus" can survive up to 95 °C with a temperature optima of...

Di Giulio M. (2003). "The universal ancestor was a thermophile or a hyperthermophile: Tests and further evidence". J Theor Biol. 221 (3): 425–436. Bibcode:2003JThBi...