Acidophiles: Oh, Sour Child o’Mine

Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our fifth episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Dr. Connor Hines talk about Acidophiles, the heavy metal rockin’ Archaea! In the second part of the episode, Connor Hines interviews Prof. Paul Blum, from the University of Nebraska Lincoln.

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Article link for: “Yellowstone National Park Death: Oregon Man Died In Acidic Hot Spring Trying To ‘Hot Pot’”

Video showing Cans dissolving in Acid

Sacki Dog Meme

Picture of “Ferroplasma acidiphilum”

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For nomenclature changes, current nomenclature can be found here

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Sources

Howland, J. L. (2000). The surprising archaea: discovering another domain of life. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780195111835

Chen, Lanming, et al. "The genome of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, a model organism of the Crenarchaeota."

Ferrer, Manuel, et al. "The cellular machinery of Ferroplasma acidiphilum is iron-protein-dominated."

McCarthy, Samuel, et al. "Expanding the limits of thermoacidophily in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus by adaptive evolution."

Krzmarzick, Mark James, et al. "Diversity and niche of archaea in bioremediation."

Rastädter, Kerstin, et al. "The cell membrane of Sulfolobus spp.-homeoviscous adaption and biotechnological applications."

Baker-Austin, Craig, and Mark Dopson. "Life in acid: pH homeostasis in acidophiles."

Mikael Sehlin, H. B. L. E., and E. Börje Lindström. "Oxidation and reduction of arsenic by Sulfolobus acidocaldarius strain BC."

“Abandoned Mine Drainage”

“Where do acid-sulfate hot springs come from and why are they important?”

Nordstrom, D. Kirk, James W. Ball, and R. Blaine McCleskey. "Ground water to surface water: chemistry of thermal outflows in Yellowstone National Park." Geothermal biology and geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park (2005): 73-94.