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Halobacterium (common
abbreviation Hbt.) is a
genus in the
family Halobacteriaceae. The
genus Halobacterium ("salt" or "ocean bacterium")
consists of...
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Halobacterium salinarum,
formerly known as
Halobacterium cutirubrum or
Halobacterium halobium, is an
extremely halophilic marine obligate aerobic archaeon...
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Halobacterium noricense is a halophilic, rod-shaped
microorganism that
thrives in
environments with salt
levels near saturation.
Despite the implication...
- light-driven H+ ion
transporter found in some haloarchaea, most
notably Halobacterium salinarum (formerly
known as syn. H. halobium). The proton-motive force...
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inorganic energy sources. No
known archaea carry out
photosynthesis (
Halobacterium is the only
known phototroph archeon but it uses an
alternative process...
- high as 130 °C (266 °F), as low as −17 °C (1 °F)
Halophiles such as
Halobacterium salinarum (an archaean)
thrive in high salt conditions, up to saturation...
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instead of water,
producing sulfur instead of oxygen.
Archaea such as
Halobacterium also
perform a type of non-carbon-fixing
anoxygenic photosynthesis,...
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known to be
naturally competent for transformation.
Among archaea,
Halobacterium volcanii forms cytoplasmic bridges between cells that
appear to be used...
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cultures grown in
synthetic minimal media are not polyploid. The
archaeon Halobacterium salinarium is
polyploid and, like
Deinococcus radiodurans, is highly...
- glycoprotein, and
occurs in the hyperthermophiles,
Halobacterium, and some methanogens. In
Halobacterium, the
proteins in the wall have a high
content of...
