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    Metallosphaera sedula TA-2, a calditoglycerocaldarchaeol deletion strain of a thermoacidophilic archaeon

    A spherical thermoacidophilic archaeon, strain TA-2, was obtained from acidic hot springs located in Ohwaku Valley, Hakone, Japan. This isolate is an obligate aerobic chemoorganoheterotroph that grows optimal...

    Yuko H. Itoh, Norio Kurosawa, Ikuko Uda, Akihiko Sugai, Shin Tanoue in Extremophiles (2001)

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    Distribution of 16S rRNA introns among the family Thermoproteaceae and their evolutionary implications

    Novel 16S rRNA introns were detected in four new strains within the family Thermoproteaceae. Pyrobaculum oguniense TE7T and Thermoproteus sp. IC-062 housed introns of 32 and 665–668 bp after positions 1205 and 12...

    Takashi Itoh, Norimichi Nomura, Yoshihiko Sako in Extremophiles (2003)

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    Thermus kawarayensis sp. nov., a new member of the genus Thermus, isolated from Japanese hot springs

    A long-rod-shaped thermophilic microorganism, strain KW11, was isolated from a hot springs located in the Kawarayu, Gunma, Japan. Cloning and preliminary sequence analysis of 16S rDNA showed that this isolate ...

    Norio Kurosawa, Yuko H. Itoh, Takashi Itoh in Extremophiles (2005)

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    Natronolimnobius baerhuensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Natronolimnobius innermongolicus sp. nov., novel haloalkaliphilic archaea isolated from soda lakes in Inner Mongolia, China

    Three novel isolates of haloalkaliphilic archaea, strains IHC-005T, IHC-010, and N-1311T, from soda lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, were characterized to elucidate their taxonomic positions. The three strains wer...

    Takashi Itoh, Takashi Yamaguchi, Pei** Zhou, Tomonori Takashina in Extremophiles (2005)

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    Halophilic archaea isolated from man-made young (200 years) salt lakes in Slănic, Prahova, Romania

    We isolated a number of extremely halophilic archaea from four salt lakes (Red Bath, Green Bath, Shepherd Bath and Bride Cave) located in Slanic Prahova, Romania. The characterization of 12 representative isol...

    Mădălin Enache, Takashi Itoh, Masahiro Kamekura in Central European Journal of Biology (2008)

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    Integration of large heterologous DNA fragments into the genome of Thermococcus kodakarensis

    In this study, a transformation system enabling large-scale gene recombination was developed for the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis. Using the uracil auxotroph T. kodakarensis KU216 (∆pyrF) ...

    Takaaki Sato, Daisuke Takada, Takashi Itoh, Moriya Ohkuma, Haruyuki Atomi in Extremophiles (2020)