Extending the Upper Temperature Limit for Life

By K. Kashefi, Derek R. Lovley. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Paleontology

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Beyond the Calvin cycle: autotrophic carbon fixation in the ocean. (2011, background): “Evidence has been obtained for microbial growth at temperatures up to approximately 120◦C and for survival up to 127◦C (Blöchl et al. 1997, Kashefi & Lovley 2003, Takai et al. 2008), but it is conceivable that microbial growth may occur at temperatures up to 140◦C (Holden & Daniel 2004).”
Heat freezes niche evolution. (2013, background): “Perhaps, most notable are extremophilic microbes whose proteins can be synthesized at temperatures exceeding 100 °C (e.g. Kashefi & Lovley 2003).”
Feast and famine — microbial life in the deep-sea bed (2007, background): “The heat-loving vent-archaea Pyrolobus fumarii and strain 121 hold the global record for growth at high temperatures (113 and 121°C, respectively”
Microorganisms pumping iron: anaerobic microbial iron oxidation and reduction (2006, background): “In support of this, Fe( III ) respiration has been identified in a diversity of extant microorganisms including those most closely related to the last common ancesto”
Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life (2008, background): “Some of the archaea in black smokers can replicate at temperatures up to 121°”
Living microbial ecosystems within the active zone of catagenesis: Implications for feeding the deep biosphere (2006, background): “Indeed, microorganisms have been detected in geological systems up to 100 °C [65] and cultured up to 121 °C [16], and the approximate present day temperature for the onset of petroleum generation for a “typical” petroliferous basin (heating rate 1–5 K/Ma) lies between 70 and 120 °C [17–19].”
The thermal limits to life on Earth (2014, background): “However a strain of M. kandleri isolated subsequently from the Kairei vent field on the Central IndianRidge was found to grow at 122 °C under 40MPa pressure (Takai et al. 2008), just surpassing the previous record for 121 °C for Geogemma barossii strain 121 (Kashefi & Lovley 2003).”
Bacterial biomineralization: new insights from Myxococcus-induced mineral precipitation (2010, background): “It has recently been found that Pyrolobus fumarii, an Fe(III)-reducing bacterium which is responsible for magnetite precipitation in hydrothermal vents, is able to survive at temperatures of around 120 8C (Kashefi & Lovley 2003).”
The Biocatalytic Potential of Extremophiles and Extremozymes (2004, background): “Among the hyperthermophiles, a strain dubbed »strain 121« (33) and Pyrolobus fumarii (34), capable of growing at 121 and 113 °C, respectively, hold the record for the most thermophilic microorganisms.”
Cell proliferation at 122°C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation (2008, methodology): “Before the isolation of a hyperthermophile strain 121 (18), P.”
Opinion: Adaptations to energy stress dictate the ecology and evolution of the Archaea (2007, background): “Extremely thermophilic archaea are characterized by growth optima of 80 ° C or more, with a current record of growth at 121 ° C (Ref”
WATER LOSS FROM TERRESTRIAL PLANETS WITH CO2-RICH ATMOSPHERES (2013, neutral): “o have high atmospheric CO 2 inventories, those receiving an Earth-like stellar ux would have surface temperatures in the 350-450 K range. The survival range for life on Earth is around 250 to 400 K (Kashe and Lovley 2003), so a waterworld could perhaps still remain marginally habitable by this crit”