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hyperthermophile
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hyperthermophile [‚hī·pər′thər·mə‚fīl]
(microbiology)
An extremophile that thrives in high-temperature (above 60°C or 140°F) environments.


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Those few types of hyperthermophilic microbes that can form HzS at temperatures up to 110[degrees]C appear to be very rare and they do not normally occur and/or metabolize in geologic settings that are otherwise conducive to BSR.
Scientists identified a thermostable hydrolizing enzyme, b-glycosidase, from genetically modified hyperthermophilic Archea Sulfolobus solfataricus and Pyrococcus furiosus that grew in continuous fermentors.
 
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