Hyperthermophilic Fe(III) reduction has been most intensively studied in P. islandicum (Childers and Lovley, 2001), significant because it is one of the most plausible energy metabolisms for the last common ancestor of all modern life. This species is also of great interest to geochemists and geobiologists given the abundance and ubiquity of matching rRNA signatures in geothermal environments. Information about other groups in the research community working on the microbe. Derek Lovley's group (Department of Microbiology, Morrill
Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA)
has worked on elucidation of Fe(III) reduction mechanisms in P. islandicum. Childers SE, Lovley DR.
Differences in Fe(III) reduction in the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrobaculum
islandicum, versus mesophilic Fe(III)-reducing bacteria.
FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2001 Feb 20;195(2):253-8. |
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