Hot spring metagenomics

O López-López, ME Cerdán, MI González-Siso - Life, 2013 - mdpi.com
Hot springs have been investigated since the XIX century, but isolation and examination of
their thermophilic microbial inhabitants did not start until the 1950s. Many thermophilic …

Diversity and distribution of thermophilic microorganisms and their applications in biotechnology

S Arbab, H Ullah, MIU Khan… - Journal of basic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hot springs ecosystem is the most ancient continuously inhabited ecosystem on earth which
harbors diverse thermophilic bacteria and archaea distributed worldwide. Life in extreme …

Metagenome-assembled genomes provide new insight into the microbial diversity of two thermal pools in Kamchatka, Russia

LGE Wilkins, CL Ettinger, G Jospin, JA Eisen - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Culture-independent methods have contributed substantially to our understanding of global
microbial diversity. Recently developed algorithms to construct whole genomes from …

Metagenomic analysis of hot springs in Central India reveals hydrocarbon degrading thermophiles and pathways essential for survival in extreme environments

R Saxena, DB Dhakan, P Mittal, P Waiker… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Extreme ecosystems such as hot springs are of great interest as a source of novel
extremophilic species, enzymes, metabolic functions for survival and biotechnological …

Bacteria and Archaea diversity within the hot springs of Lake Magadi and Little Magadi in Kenya

AK Kambura, RK Mwirichia, RW Kasili, EN Karanja… - BMC microbiology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Lake Magadi and little Magadi are hypersaline, alkaline lakes situated
in the southern part of Kenyan Rift Valley. Solutes are supplied mainly by a series of alkaline …

Microbial diversity and autotrophic activity in Kamchatka hot springs

AY Merkel, NV Pimenov, II Rusanov, AI Slobodkin… - Extremophiles, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Microbial communities of Kamchatka Peninsula terrestrial hot springs were studied
using molecular, radioisotopic and cultural approaches. Analysis of 16S rRNA gene …

Metagenomics of an alkaline hot spring in Galicia (Spain): microbial diversity analysis and screening for novel lipolytic enzymes

O López-López, K Knapik, ME Cerdán… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
A fosmid library was constructed with the metagenomic DNA from the water of the Lobios hot
spring (76° C, pH= 8.2) located in Ourense (Spain). Metagenomic sequencing of the fosmid …

Impact of the dimethyl sulfoxide reductase superfamily on the evolution of biogeochemical cycles

M Wells, M Kim, DM Akob, P Basu… - Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The dimethyl sulfoxide reductase (or MopB) family is a diverse assemblage of enzymes
found throughout Bacteria and Archaea. Many of these enzymes are believed to have been …

Diversity and activity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in Kamchatka hot springs

EN Frolov, AV Gololobova, AA Klyukina… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microbial communities of the Kamchatka Peninsula terrestrial hot springs were studied using
radioisotopic and cultural approaches, as well as by the amplification and sequencing of …

Archaeal lipids

T Řezanka, L Kyselová, DJ Murphy - Progress in Lipid Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The major archaeal membrane glycerolipids are distinguished from those of bacteria and
eukaryotes by the contrasting stereochemistry of their glycerol backbones, and by the use of …