Halophilic microbial communities and their environments

Oren, Aharon

doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2015.02.005

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“…In the 1980s, Antonio Ventosa and colleagues picked up where Elazari left off and initiated extensive studies of microbial life in the Dead Sea (Ventosa et al 1999. Oren et al also have studied the ecology, physiology, biochemistry, and microbiology of microbes in hypersaline environments (Oren 1983(Oren , 2015Oren and Gurevich 1995;Oren and Litchfield 1998).…”

Section: History Of Halophilesmentioning

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Halophiles: biology, adaptation, and their role in decontamination of hypersaline environments

Edbeib

Wahab

Huyop

2016

World J Microbiol Biotechnol

138

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The unique cellular enzymatic machinery of halophilic microbes allows them to thrive in extreme saline environments. That these microorganisms can prosper in hypersaline environments has been correlated with the elevated acidic amino acid content in their proteins, which increase the negative protein surface potential. Because these microorganisms effectively use hydrocarbons as their sole carbon and energy sources, they may prove to be valuable bioremediation agents for the treatment of saline effluents and hypersaline waters contaminated with toxic compounds that are resistant to degradation. This review highlights the various strategies adopted by halophiles to compensate for their saline surroundings and includes descriptions of recent studies that have used these microorganisms for bioremediation of environments contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons. The known halotolerant dehalogenase-producing microbes, their dehalogenation mechanisms, and how their proteins are stabilized is also reviewed. In view of their robustness in saline environments, efforts to document their full potential regarding remediation of contaminated hypersaline ecosystems merits further exploration.

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Section: History Of Halophilesmentioning

confidence: 94%

Halophiles: biology, adaptation, and their role in decontamination of hypersaline environments

Edbeib

Wahab

Huyop

2016

World J Microbiol Biotechnol

138

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“…ROS-protection appears to be a major feature of certain archaea that are particularly resistant to radiation (16). Furthermore, extremophiles are investigated for potential biotechnology applications such as bioremediation of polluted environments (53 approach, one fluorescent dye should be insensitive to its environment and serve as a reference, its fluorescence intensity remaining constant during the whole experiment. The second dye allows the readout of the fluctuation of ROS concentration.…”

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Environmental Effects on Reactive Oxygen Species Detection—Learning from the Phagosome

Nault

Bouchab

Dupre-Crochet

et al. 2016

Antioxidants & Redox Signaling

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Difficulties due to cell movement and continuous formation of new phagosomes can be reduced by ratio measurements, if appropriate dyes are identified. For detection in live cells and subcellular locations, fluorescent proteins (FPs) offer several advantages and are used to create biosensors for ROS. Some FPs are directly sensitive to certain ROS as shown here. Although this may compromise their use in an environment with high levels of ROS, it can also be exploited for ROS measurement directly with the FPs themselves. For all types of ROS detection, we suggest a set of basic guidelines for testing the environmental sensitivity of an ROS sensor. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 25, 564-576.

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“…성장온도는 25-55°C이며, 최적온도는 37°C이며, 성장 pH는 6.0-9.0이며, 최적 pH는 7.5이다. 성장 NaCl 농도는 12-29% (w/v)이고, (Oren, 2015). …”

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“…, 상당한 양 의 소금으로 절인 어류와 육류 표면과 같은 인공적인 염분 서 식지를 포함하여, 다양한 고염환경에서 발견되고 있다 (Oren, 2014(Oren, , 2015. (Sehgel and Gibbons, 1960;Ventosa et al, 1982).…”

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Isolation and characterization analysis of the halophilic archaea isolated from solar saltern, Gomso

Koh¹,

Kim²,

Rhee³

et al. 2015

The Korean Journal of Microbiology

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Most of halophilic archaea are found in the various hypersaline environments including solar saltern, salt lake with very high salt concentration. The present study is about isolation and characterization of halphilic archaea from Gomso solar saltern known as a representative high salt environment in Korea. In order to isolate the halophilic archaea, we prepared and used high salt medium. Finally, total 7 strains obtained were tentatively identified based on comparative similarity analysis for 16S rRNA gene sequence and physiological traits. All halophilic archaea belonged to Haloruburm, Halogeometriucm, Halobacterium, and Haloarcula genera. These isolates were all Gram-staining negative, and growth was not observed using nitrate as an alternative electron acceptor under anaerobic conditions. In addition, all isolates required about 12-30% (w/v, NaCl) salt. This case study might provide basic information on microbial isolation technologies and related research in halophilic microorganisms from domestic halophilic environments, and contribute to obtaining useful indigenous halophilic archaea in a variety of extreme environmental conditions.

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Halophilic microbial communities and their environments

Cited by 159 publications

References 60 publications

Halophiles: biology, adaptation, and their role in decontamination of hypersaline environments

Halophiles: biology, adaptation, and their role in decontamination of hypersaline environments

Environmental Effects on Reactive Oxygen Species Detection—Learning from the Phagosome

Isolation and characterization analysis of the halophilic archaea isolated from solar saltern, Gomso

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