Extremely thermophilic microorganisms as metabolic engineering platforms for production of fuels and industrial chemicals

BM Zeldes, MW Keller, AJ Loder, CT Straub… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Enzymes from extremely thermophilic microorganisms have been of technological interest
for some time because of their ability to catalyze reactions of industrial significance at …

Thermus thermophilus as biological model

F Cava, A Hidalgo, J Berenguer - Extremophiles, 2009 - Springer
Thermus spp is one of the most wide spread genuses of thermophilic bacteria, with isolates
found in natural as well as in man-made thermal environments. The high growth rates, cell …

Physiological and transcriptomic changes drive robust responses in Paenarthrobacter sp. AT5 to co-exposure of sulfamethoxazole and atrazine

JD Harindintwali, Q Dou, X Wen, L Xiang, Y Fu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Agricultural waterways are often contaminated with herbicide and antibiotic residues due to
the widespread use of these chemicals in modern agriculture. The search for resistant …

Recent insights into microbial catalases: isolation, production and purification

BS Sooch, BS Kauldhar, M Puri - Biotechnology Advances, 2014 - Elsevier
Catalase, an oxidoreductase enzyme, works as a detoxification system inside living cells
against reactive oxygen species formed as a by-product of different metabolic reactions. The …

Physiological, metabolic and biotechnological features of extremely thermophilic microorganisms

JA Counts, BM Zeldes, LL Lee… - … Systems Biology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The current upper thermal limit for life as we know it is approximately 120° C.
Microorganisms that grow optimally at temperatures of 75° C and above are usually referred …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring research frontiers in microbiology: recent advances in halophilic and thermophilic extremophiles

B Averhoff, V Müller - Research in microbiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Extremophilic prokaryotes inhabit ecosystems that are, from a human perspective, extreme,
and life in these environments requires far-reaching cellular adaptations. Here, we will …

A temperature dependent pilin promoter for production of thermostable enzymes in Thermus thermophilus

L Kirchner, V Müller, B Averhoff - Microbial Cell Factories, 2023 - Springer
Background Enzymes from thermophiles are of great interest for research and
bioengineering due to their stability and efficiency. Thermophilic expression hosts such as …

Thermus thermophilus as source of thermozymes for biotechnological applications: homologous expression and biochemical characterization of an α-galactosidase

M Aulitto, S Fusco, G Fiorentino, D Limauro… - Microbial cell …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The genus Thermus, which has been considered for a long time as a
fruitful source of biotechnological relevant enzymes, has emerged more recently as suitable …

Oxidative stress response in two representative bacteria exposed to atrazine

Y Zhang, D Meng, Z Wang, H Guo… - FEMS microbiology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria are present extensively in the environment. Investigation of their antioxidant
properties will be useful for further study on atrazine stress tolerance of bacteria and the …

Reconstitution of translation from Thermus thermophilus reveals a minimal set of components sufficient for protein synthesis at high temperatures and functional …

Y Zhou, H Asahara, EA Gaucher… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Thermus thermophilus is a thermophilic model organism distantly related to the mesophilic
model organism E. coli. We reconstituted protein translation of Thermus thermophilus in vitro …