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Temperature is one of the key physical variables that determine sustenance of living beings on earth. Microorganisms are known to have arrived on the scene nearly 4 billion years ago at a time when temperatures were likely to be in extremes. That this indeed was true has been shown by the discovery of microorganisms from geothermal areas around the world and has pushed up our viewpoint concerning the uppermost temperature for existence of life forms to above boiling water. All microbes recovered until now from such extremes are prokaryotes suggesting distinct limit for eukaryotic life forms, which currently extends to 62°C. However, notwithstanding the drastic difference between the upper temperature limits for the existence of prokaryotes and eukaryotes, it is definitely of some consequence that proteins from the latter have been found to be stable up to 95°C or higher (46).
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Johri, B.N., Olsen, J., Satyanarayana, T. (1999). Introduction. In: Johri, B.N., Satyanarayana, T., Olsen, J. (eds) Thermophilic Moulds in Biotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9206-2_1
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