Halophilic Microorganisms Book

Foreword

Morris Kates

Introductory Chapter: Half a Lifetime in Soda Lakes

W.D. Grant

1 Trophic Ecology of Solar Salterns

Carlos Pedrós-Alió

2 Microbial Molecular and Physiological Diversity in Hypersaline Environments

Carol D. Litchfield

3 Red, Extremely Halophilic, but not Archaeal: The Physiology and Ecology of Salinibacter ruber, a Bacterium Isolated from Saltern Crystallizer Ponds

Aharon Oren, Francísco Rodríguez-Valera, Josefa Antón, Susana Benlloch, Ramón Rosselló-Mora, Rudolf Amann, Julie Coleman, Nicholas J. Russell

4 The Potential Use of Signature Bases from 16S rRNA Gene Sequences to Aid the Assignment of Microbial Strains to Genera of Halobacteria

Masahiro Kamekura, Toru Mizuki, Ron Usami, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Koki Horikoshi, Russell H. Vreeland

5 From Intraterrestrials to Extraterrestrials — Viable Haloarchaea in Ancient Salt Deposits

H. Stan-Lotter, C. Radax, T.J. McGenity, A. Legat, M. Pfaffenhuemer, H. Wieland, C. Gruber, E.B.M. Denner

6 Fungi in the Salterns

Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Polona Zalar, Uroš Petroviè, Martina Turk, Tina Kogej, G. Sybren de Hoog, Ana Plemenitaš

7 Physiological and Molecular Responses of Bacillus subtilis to Hypertonicity: Utilization of Evolutionarily Conserved Adaptation Strategies

G. Holtmann, C. D. Boiangiu, J. Brill, T. Hoffmann, A. U. Kuhlmann, S. Moses, G. Nau-Wagner, N. Pica, E. Bremer

8 Genetics of Osmoadaptation by Accumulation of Compatible Solutes in the Moderate Halophile Chromohalobacter salexigens: Its Potential in Agriculture Under Osmotic Stress Conditions

C. Vargas, M.I. Calderon, N. Capote, R. Carrasco, R. Garcia, M.J. Moron, A. Ventosa, J.J. Nieto

9 Osmoregulated Solute Transport in Halophilic Bacteria

Hans Jörg Kunte

10 Molecular and Functional Adaptations Underlying the Exceptional Salt Tolerance of the Alga Dunaliella salina

A. Zamir, M. Azachi, U. Bageshwar, M. Fisher, I. Gokhman, L. Premkumar, A. Sadka, T. Savchenko

11 Multienzyme Complexes in the Archaea: Predictions from Genome Sequences

Michael J. Danson, David J. Morgan, Alex C. Jeffries, David W. Hough, Michael L. Dyall-Smith

12 Nitrate Assimilation in Halophilic Archaea

M.J. Bonete, F.C. Marhuenda-Egea, C. Pire, J. Ferrer, R.M. Martínez-Espinosa

13 The Archaeal Cardiolipins of the Extreme Halophiles

Angela Corcelli, Veronica M. T. Lattanzio, Aharon Oren

14 Understanding Archaeal Protein Translocation: Haloferax volcanii as a Model System

Jerry Eichler, Zvia Konrad, Gabriela Ring

15 Gas Vesicle Genes in Halophilic Archaea and Bacteria

Felicitas Pfeifer

16 Extremely Halophilic Archaea: Insights into Their Response to Environmental Conditions

Guadalupe Juez

17 Genome Sequences of the Head-Tail Haloviruses HF1 and HF2

S.-L. Tang, C. Fisher, K. Ngui, S.D. Nuttall, M.L. Dyall-Smith

References

18 Reporter Gene Systems for Halophilic Microorganisms

Constantin Drainas

19 Industrial Enzymes: Do Halophiles and Alkaliphiles Have a Role to Play?

Brian E. Jones

20 Extracellular Hydrolytic Enzymes Produced by Moderately Halophilic Bacteria

E. Mellado, C. Sánchez-Porro, S. Martín, A. Ventosa

21 Moderately Halophilic, Exopolysaccharide-Producing Bacteria

E. Quesada, V. Béjar, M.R. Ferrer, C. Calvo, I. Llamas, F. Martínez-Checa, S. Arias, C. Ruiz-García, R. Páez, J. Martínez-Cánovas, A. del Moral

22 Biotransformation of Toxic Organic and Inorganic Contaminants by Halophilic Bacteria

B.M. Peyton, M.R. Mormile, V. Alva, C. Oie, F. Roberto, W.A. Apel, A. Oren

Epilogue Cum Grano Salis — Salt in the History and Life of Mankind. An Overview with Emphasis on Europe

Hans G. Trüper