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Molecular Determinants of Obligate Psychrophily

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Micrococcus cryophilus will not grow at temperatures above 25° C. This limitation seems to derive from the temperature sensitivity of two particular amino-acid activating enzymes and their cognate species of tRNA.

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MALCOLM, N. Molecular Determinants of Obligate Psychrophily. Nature 221, 1031–1033 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211031a0

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