Water is a preservative of microbes

JE Hallsworth - Microbial Biotechnology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water is the cellular milieu, drives all biochemistry within Earth's biosphere and facilitates
microbe‐mediated decay processes. Instead of reviewing these topics, the current article …

Innovative Approaches in Extremophile-Mediated Remediation of Toxic Pollutants: A Comprehensive Review

P Swaminaathan, A Shaji, A Saravanan… - Water Conservation …, 2024 - Springer
This comprehensive review explores the intriguing potential of extremophiles in
revolutionizing the remediation of toxic pollutants. Extremophiles, remarkable …

Ribosomal proteins can hold a more accurate record of bacterial thermal adaptation compared to rRNA

A van den Elzen, K Helena-Bueno… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ribosomal genes are widely used as 'molecular clocks' to infer evolutionary relationships
between species. However, their utility as 'molecular thermometers' for estimating optimal …

Microbial diversity in polyextreme salt flats and their potential applications

M Ben Abdallah, M Chamkha, F Karray… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Recent geological, hydrochemical, and mineralogical studies performed on hypersaline salt
flats have given insights into similar geo-morphologic features on Mars. These salt …

Assessment of diversity of archaeal communities in Algerian chott

II Hassani, I Quadri, A Yadav, S Bouchard, D Raoult… - Extremophiles, 2023 - Springer
Halophilic archaea are the dominant type of microorganisms in hypersaline environments.
The diversity of halophilic archaea in Zehrez-Chergui (Saharian chott) was analyzed and …

Mapping archaeal diversity in soda lakes by coupling 16S rRNA PCR-DGGE analysis with remote sensing and GIS technology

N Elshafey, S Selim, AH Mohammed, N Hagagy… - Fermentation, 2022 - mdpi.com
The haloarchaeal diversity of four hypersaline alkaline lakes from the Wadi El-Natrun
depression (Northern Egypt) was investigated using culture-independent polymerase chain …

Metataxonomic analysis of halophilic archaea community in two geothermal springs sources in southern Tunisian Sahara

A Najjari, K Elmnasri, H Cherif, A Guesmi, M Mahjoubi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
In this study, we assess the phylogenetic diversity of the halophilic archaeal community of
biotechnological interest that inhabit in geothermal water in southern Tunisia. These waters …

Ribosomes as molecular thermometers: metal-binding sites in ribosomal proteins are robust indicators of bacterial adaptation to heat and cold

A van den Elzen, K Helena-Bueno, CR Brown… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Ribosomal genes are widely used as “molecular clocks” to infer the evolutionary relatedness
of species. It is unclear, however, whether these genes can also serve as “molecular …

4 Chapter Fundamentals and Applications

S Huerta-Ochoa, CO Castillo-Araiza… - Some Key Topics in …, 2023 - books.google.com
Solid/gas (SG) biocatalysis is a non-conventional catalytic process, which is carried out by
immobilizing enzymes or whole-cells on a solid support through which the substrates flow in …

Biochemistry and Biomolecules of Halophiles@@@ Recent Trends and Prospects

S Kumar, BB Das, N Srivastava, SK Khare - Some Key Topics in … - taylorfrancis.com
Halophiles, a class of extremophiles, have the remarkable capacity to grow and survive in
environments of high salt concentrations. They are the natural inhabitants of the saline …