A variant of the hyperthermophile Archaeoglobus fulgidus adapted to grow at high salinity

Goncalves, Luis G. and Huber, Robert and da Costa, Milton S. and Santos, Helena (2003) A variant of the hyperthermophile Archaeoglobus fulgidus adapted to grow at high salinity. FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS, 218 (2). pp. 239-244. ISSN 0378-1097

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Abstract

A variant of Archaeoglobus fulgidus VC-16 was isolated from cultures obtained after a stepwise transfer from media containing 1.8-6.3% NaCl by a plating-independent, selected-cell cultivation technique, using a laser microscope. This variant, A. fulgidus VC-16S, had a higher growth rate throughout the salt range of the parental strain, but was also able to grow in media containing NaCl up to 6.3%, whereas the parental strain could not grow above 4.5% NaCl. Diglycerol phosphate (DGP), only encountered in the Archaeoglobales, was the major solute accumulated under supra-optimal salinities, whereas at supra-optimal growth temperatures di-myo-inositol phosphate was the predominant solute. The accumulation of compatible solutes during growth of variant VC-16S was lower than in the parental strain within 1.8-4.5% NaCl, but the levels of compatible solutes, including DGP, increased sharply in the variant at higher salinities (5.5 and 6.0%). This variant represents, at this time, one of the most halophilic hyperthermophiles known, and its ability to grow at high salinity appears to be due to the massive accumulation of DGP. (C) 2002 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: MYO-INOSITOL-PHOSPHATE; COMPATIBLE SOLUTES; SP-NOV; GENETIC-CHARACTERIZATION; RHODOTHERMUS-MARINUS; ORGANIC SOLUTES; NORTH-SEA; MANNOSYLGLYCERATE; ARCHAEBACTERIA; ACCUMULATION; hyperthermophile; Archaeoglohus fulgidus; compatible solute; diglycerol phosphate; optical tweezers
Subjects: 500 Science > 570 Life sciences
Divisions: Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie > Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie (Archaeenzentrum)
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 24 Aug 2021 13:21
Last Modified: 24 Aug 2021 13:21
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/39347

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