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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2006 Thermophilic Temperature Optimum for Crenarchaeol Synthesis and Its Implication for Archaeal Evolution
Chuanlun L. Zhang, Ann Pearson, Yi-Liang Li, Gary Mills, and Juergen Wiegel
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2006
Abstract

The isoprenoid lipid crenarchaeol is widespread in hot springs of California and Nevada. Terrestrial and marine data together suggest a maximum relative abundance of crenarchaeol at ~40°C. This warm temperature optimum may have facilitated colonization of the ocean by (hyper)thermophilic Archaea and the major marine radiation of Crenarchaeota.

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