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Pyruvate: A key Nutrient in Hypersaline Environments?
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- Integrating genomic evidence for an updated taxonomy of the bacterial genus Spiribacter.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Use of modified ichip for the cultivation of thermo-tolerant microorganisms from the hot spring.BMC microbiology · 2023Article
- Comparative Genomic Insights into the Evolution ofmSystems · 2022Article
- Genomic analysis of a novel species Halomonas shambharensis isolated from hypersaline lake in Northwest India.Molecular biology reports · 2021Article
- Depthwise microbiome and isotopic profiling of a moderately saline microbial mat in a solar saltern.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Metabolic Diversity and Evolutionary History of the Archaeal Phylum "Applied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
- Undinarchaeota illuminate DPANN phylogeny and the impact of gene transfer on archaeal evolution.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Abundant Taxa and Favorable Pathways in the Microbiome of Soda-Saline Lakes in Inner Mongolia.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Sucrose Metabolism in Haloarchaea: Reassessment Using Genomics, Proteomics, and Metagenomics.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Article
- Understanding the interplay of carbon and nitrogen supply for ectoines production and metabolic overflow in high density cultures of Chromohalobacter salexigens.Microbial cell factories · 2017Article
- Probing Saltern Brines with an Oxygen Electrode: What Can We Learn about the Community Metabolism in Hypersaline Systems?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Review
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Abstract
Some of the most commonly occurring but difficult to isolate halophilic prokaryotes, Archaea as well as Bacteria, require or prefer pyruvate as carbon and energy source. The most efficient media for the enumeration and isolation of heterotrophic prokaryotes from natural environments, from freshwater to hypersaline, including the widely used R2A agar medium, contain pyruvate as a key ingredient. Examples of pyruvate-loving halophiles are the square, extremely halophilic archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi and the halophilic gammaproteobacterium Spiribacter salinus. However, surprisingly little is known about the availability of pyruvate in natural environments and about the way it enters the cell. Some halophilic Archaea (Halorubrum saccharovorum, Haloarcula spp.) partially convert sugars and glycerol to pyruvate and other acids (acetate, lactate) which are excreted to the medium. Pyruvate formation from glycerol was also shown during a bloom of halophilic Archaea in the Dead Sea. However, no pyruvate transporters were yet identified in the genomes of halophilic Archaea, and altogether, our understanding of pyruvate transport in the prokaryote world is very limited. Therefore, the preference for pyruvate by fastidious and often elusive halophiles and the empirically proven enhanced colony recovery on agar media containing pyruvate are still poorly understood.
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