There are #bacteria that can fix nitrogen at 92C (197.6F). newswise.com/articles/micro…
This lends insights into the origins of life and the conditions, even extreme, where life is possible.
The bacteria was collected at Axial Volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of Washington and Oregon.
Fixing nitrogen at 92 C smashes the previous record by 28 C, a record held by Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus, an archaeon that was isolated from geothermally heated sand near an Italian beach and fixes nitrogen at temperatures up to 64 C.
Nitrogen is necessary for all life because it is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. To be used by organisms, gaseous nitrogen must be converted to other compounds, or "fixed," which can only be done by certain bacteria and specific archaea.
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