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Characterization of the first eukaryotic cold-adapted patatin-like phospholipase from the psychrophilic Euplotes focardii: Identification of putative determinants of thermal-adaptation by comparison with the homologous protein from the mesophilic Euplotes crassus.
Biochimie - 1 Sept 2013
Yang Guang, De Santi Concetta, de Pascale Donatella, Pucciarelli Sandra, Pucciarelli Stefania, Miceli Cristina
Abstract excerpt
The ciliated protozoon Euplotes focardii, originally isolated from the coastal seawaters of Terra Nova Bay in Antarctica, shows a strictly psychrophilic phenotype, including optimal survival and multiplication rates at 4-5 °C. This characteristic makes E. focardii an ideal model species for ident...
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