We discovered an organism that lives at blistering temperatures – but what allows it to take the heat?

This amoeba lives at hotter temperatures than any other eukaryote previously discovered.

研究團隊在加州地熱泉中發現一種單細胞真核生物，能在63°C下繁殖，刷新了真核生命的耐熱紀錄。作者指出，熱休克蛋白和特殊蛋白構件可能只是部分原因，真正的機制或許是一系列微小變化的組合。