• In taxonomy, Thermoplasma is a genus of the Thermoplasmataceae. Thermoplasma is a genus of archaea. It belongs to the Thermoplasmata, which thrive in...
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  • Thermoplasma volcanium is a moderate thermoacidophilic archaea isolated from acidic hydrothermal vents and solfatara fields. It contains no cell wall and...
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  • Thermoplasma acidophilum is an archaeon, the type species of its genus. T. acidophilum was originally isolated from a self-heating coal refuse pile, at...
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    (Archaeal Mevalonate Pathway I). A third mevalonate pathway variant found in Thermoplasma acidophilum, phosphorylates mevalonate at the 3-OH position followed...
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    to the mitochondria found in eukaryotic cells. Members of the genus Thermoplasma are the smallest of the Archaea. Cyanobacteria and mycoplasmas are two...
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    other organisms, these cellular structures are poorly understood. In Thermoplasma and Ferroplasma the lack of a cell wall means that the cells have irregular...
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    rate-limiting enzyme in the melatonin biosynthetic pathway—in the archaeon Thermoplasma volcanium firmly places melatonin biosynthesis in all three major domains...
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    expanded to include the Mollicutes, bacteria such as Mycoplasma and Thermoplasma that lack cell walls and so cannot be Gram-stained, but are derived from...
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  • glycoproteins of hexagonal symmetry. With the exception of the genus Thermoplasma which lacks a wall, a deficiency that is filled by the development of...
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    substances in and out of the cell. Cell wall (except genera Mycoplasma and Thermoplasma) Outer covering of most cells that protects the bacterial cell and gives...
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