Nanoarchaeota Flashcards
Nanoarchaeota is represented by a species called
N equitans
having the smallaest genome among archaea
equitans (0.49)
diameter
0.4
nick name
the hospitable fireball
equitan cant grow in cultures and replicate only when they attached to
host -Ignococcus hospitalis
the only archaea that lives a symbiont life how
grows 10X more with ignococcus cell
parasitic life
where is equitans and ignococcus first isolated from
hydrothermal vents in iceland
grows at what temp
70-98 optimal 90
ignococcus obtain of energy
auto or hetero
e donors
autotroph
H2 and sulfur
cell of equitans
s layer (periplasmic space)
in terms of of genomes it is one of the smallest
genomes ever seq
400 k nucleotides long
the only microbe that laks genes encoding
ATPase
equitans are dependen on ignococcus
energy and Carbon
proteins encoded by equitans
DNA replication, transcription, translation
code for ___% of proteins
95
