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Carotenoid diversity in novel Hymenobacter strains isolated from Victoria Upper Glacier, Antarctica, and implications for the evolution of microbial carotenoid biosynthesis
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Many diverse microbes have been detected in or isolated from glaciers, including novel taxa exhibiting previously unrecognized physiological properties with significant biotechnological potential. Of 29 unique phylotypes isolated from Victoria Upper Glacier, Antarctica (VUG), 12 were related to...
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Insights into temperature adaptation in the Thermotogae gained through transcriptomics and comparative genomics
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Thermophilic microbes are extremophiles that live at high temperatures. In order to survive and maintain function of their biological molecules, they have a suite of characteristics not found in organisms that grow at moderate temperatures (mesophiles) that range from the cellular to the protein...
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Fall 2012
Efflux pumps belonging to the resistance-nodulation-division (RND) superfamily in bacteria are involved in antibiotic resistance and solvent tolerance but have an unknown physiological role. EmhABC, a RND-type efflux pump in the hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens LP6a,...
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The role of microbial extracellular polymeric substances in psychrotolerance and geochemistry of subglacial environments
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Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) were investigated to determine their potential role in microbial cryotolerance in the subglacial environment. The cell surface chemistry of Hymenobacter aerophilus cells, with and without EPS, was determined using potentiometric titrations and cadmium...