Ectoines in cell stress protection: uses and biotechnological production

JM Pastor, M Salvador, M Argandoña, V Bernal… - Biotechnology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Microorganisms produce and accumulate compatible solutes aiming at protecting
themselves from environmental stresses. Among them, the wide spread in nature ectoines …

Diversity and industrial potential of hydrolaseproducing halophilic/halotolerant eubacteria

ME Setati - African Journal of Biotechnology, 2010 - ajol.info
Halophilic and haloterant eubacteria have been isolated from different marine and
hypersaline environments. Halophilic eubacteria also occur in environments typified by …

Process optimization of the integrated synthesis and secretion of ectoine and hydroxyectoine under hyper/hypo‐osmotic stress

C Fallet, P Rohe, E Franco‐Lara - Biotechnology and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis and secretion of the industrial relevant compatible solutes ectoine and
hydroxyectoine using the halophile bacterium Chromohalobacter salexigens were studied …

Identification and characterization of EctR1, a new transcriptional regulator of the ectoine biosynthesis genes in the halotolerant methanotroph Methylomicrobium …

II Mustakhimov, AS Reshetnikov, AS Glukhov… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Genes encoding key enzymes of the ectoine biosynthesis pathway in the halotolerant
obligate methanotroph Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z have been shown to be …

Synthesis of 5-hydroxyectoine from ectoine: crystal structure of the non-heme iron (II) and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase EctD

K Reuter, M Pittelkow, J Bursy, A Heine, T Craan… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
As a response to high osmolality, many microorganisms synthesize various types of
compatible solutes. These organic osmolytes aid in offsetting the detrimental effects of low …

Interplay between Iron Homeostasis and the Osmotic Stress Response in the Halophilic Bacterium Chromohalobacter salexigens

M Argandona, JJ Nieto, F Iglesias-Guerra… - Applied and …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
In this study, the connection between iron homeostasis and the osmostress response in the
halophile Chromohalobacter salexigens was investigated. A decrease in the requirement for …

Regulatory aspects of ectoine biosynthesis in halophilic bacteria

II Mustakhimov, AS Reshetnikov, VN Khmelenina… - Microbiology, 2010 - Springer
In this review, the current concepts of metabolic and genetic regulation of the synthesis of
ectoine and hydroxyectoine, widely distributed osmoprotectors of halophilic bacteria, are …

Involvement of EupR, a response regulator of the NarL/FixJ family, in the control of the uptake of the compatible solutes ectoines by the halophilic bacterium …

J Rodríguez-Moya, M Argandoña, M Reina-Bueno… - BMC microbiology, 2010 - Springer
Background Osmosensing and associated signal transduction pathways have not yet been
described in obligately halophilic bacteria. Chromohalobacter salexigens is a halophilic …

Genetic and biochemical aspects of ectoine biosynthesis in moderately halophilic and halotolerant methylotrophic bacteria

VN Khmelenina, II Mustakhimov… - American Journal of …, 2010 - elibrary.ru
Problem statement: The cyclic imino acid ectoine is a widely distributed compatible solute
synthesizing by halophilic and halotolerant bacteria to prevent osmotic stress at high …

РЕГУЛЯТОРНЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ БИОСИНТЕЗА ЭКТОИНОВ У ГАЛОФИЛЬНЫХ БАКТЕРИЙ

ИИ Мустахимов, АС Решетников, ВН Хмеленина… - Микробиология, 2010 - elibrary.ru
В обзоре проанализированы и обобщены современные представления о
метаболической и генетической регуляции синтеза эктоина и гидроксиэктоина широко …