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Differences in lateral gene transfer in hypersaline versus thermal environments
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background The role of lateral gene transfer (LGT) in the evolution of microorganisms is only beginning to be understood. While most LGT events occur between closely related individuals, inter-phylum and inter-domain LGT events are not uncommon.
House Christopher H +3 more
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New insights into microbial adaptation to extreme saline environments
BIO Web of Conferences, 2014 Extreme halophiles are microorganisms adapted to low water activity living at the upper salt concentration that life can tolerate. We review here recent data that specify the main factors, which determine their peculiar salt-dependent biochemistry.
Vauclare P. +5 more
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Characterization and partial purification of an antibacterial agent from halophilic actinomycetes Kocuria sp. strain rsk4 [PDF]
BioImpacts, 2018 Introduction: The inevitable rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a global health problem. These pathogens erode the utility of available antibiotics. Staphylococcus aureus is one of the major causes of community-acquired infections.
Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Vasantba J Jadeja
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Metabolism of halophilic archaea [PDF]
Extremophiles, 2008 In spite of their common hypersaline environment, halophilic archaea are surprisingly different in their nutritional demands and metabolic pathways. The metabolic diversity of halophilic archaea was investigated at the genomic level through systematic metabolic reconstruction and comparative analysis of four completely sequenced species: Halobacterium ...
Falb, M. +9 more
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Bioprospecting of Novel Extremozymes From Prokaryotes—The Advent of Culture-Independent Methods
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Extremophiles are remarkable organisms that thrive in the harshest environments on Earth, such as hydrothermal vents, hypersaline lakes and pools, alkaline soda lakes, deserts, cold oceans, and volcanic areas.
Maksim Sysoev +7 more
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Antioxidants, 2023 Oxidative stress adaptation strategies are important to cell function and are linked to cardiac, neurodegenerative disease, and cancer. Representatives of the Archaea domain are used as model organisms based on their extreme tolerance to oxidants and ...
Ricardo L. Couto-Rodríguez +3 more
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Biomolecules, 2022 Despite intense recent research interest in archaea, the scientific community has experienced a bottleneck in the study of genome-scale gene expression experiments by RNA-seq due to the lack of commercial and specifically designed rRNA depletion kits ...
Mar Martinez Pastor +3 more
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Understanding High-Salt and Cold Adaptation of a Polyextremophilic Enzyme
Microorganisms, 2020 The haloarchaeon Halorubrum lacusprofundi is among the few polyextremophilic organisms capable of surviving in one of the most extreme aquatic environments on Earth, the Deep Lake of Antarctica (−18 °C to +11.5 °C and 21–28%, w/v salt content). Hence, H.
Ram Karan +9 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Brine from Dingyuan Salt Mine (Anhui, China), an athalassohaline hypersaline environment formed in the early tertiary Oligocene, is used to produce table salt for hundreds of millions of people.
Demei Tu +7 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Concrete hosts a small but diverse microbiome that changes over time. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing would enable assessment of both the diversity and function of the microbial community in concrete, but a number of unique challenges make this difficult ...
E. Anders Kiledal +3 more
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