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. 2020;35(3):ME20074.
doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME20074.

TEMPURA: Database of Growth TEMPeratures of Usual and RAre Prokaryotes

Yu Sato  1 , Kenji Okano  1 , Hiroyuki Kimura  2   3 , Kohsuke Honda  1
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TEMPURA: Database of Growth TEMPeratures of Usual and RAre Prokaryotes

Yu Sato et al. Microbes Environ. 2020.

Abstract

Growth temperature is one of the most representative biological parameters for characterizing living organisms. Prokaryotes have been isolated from various temperature environments and show wide diversity in their growth temperatures. We herein constructed a database of growth TEMPeratures of Usual and RAre prokaryotes (TEMPURA, http://togodb.org/db/tempura), which contains the minimum, optimum, and maximum growth temperatures of 8,639 prokaryotic strains. Growth temperature information is linked with taxonomy IDs, phylogenies, and genomic information. TEMPURA provides useful information to researchers working on biotechnological applications of extremophiles and their biomolecules as well as those performing fundamental studies on the physiological diversity of prokaryotes.

Keywords: 16S ribosomal RNA; database; genome; growth temperature; prokaryote.

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Fig. 1.
Correlations between genomic features and growth temperatures in archaeal ([A], red circle and red line) and bacterial strains ([B], blue circle and blue line). Each graph shows the correlation between (a) the G+C content of a complete genome, (b) the G+C content of 16S rRNA, and (c) the genome size with each growth temperature (Tmin, Topt, and Tmax). Correlations were examined using Pearson’s correlation coefficients (R values).
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