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  • ...polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB). It also supports the biosynthesis of alkene and carotenoids. [https://blog.microbiologics.com/environmental-isolate-case-files-micrococ
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  • ...with mycosporine-like amino acids, reactive oxygen metabolite "quenchers" (carotenoids, superoxide dismutase, catalase or peroxidases), and DNA repair processes s
    6 KB (854 words) - 20:36, 6 August 2010
  • ...gure 6. Exposure to UV-B radiation caused a rapid increase in the ratio of carotenoids to chlorophyll a in the cyanobacteria species ''Nostoc commune''. This incr ...fer an electron to the damaged carotenoid [3]. Thus, an abundance of both carotenoids and vitamin E and C lead to a more effective removal of ROS from cyanobacte
    29 KB (4,330 words) - 20:16, 10 August 2010
  • ...meter, with both regular and irregular edges. The yellow pigment is due to carotenoids, a class of naturally occurring pigments. K. eikastus can be differentiated
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  • ...lar salt lakes in China, Inner Mongolia and Russia[[#References|[3]]]. The carotenoids inside many Halobacteriaceae cause the red coloring and serve to protect DN ...of approximately 2mm in diameter[[#References|[11]]]. The bacterioruberin carotenoids present in the microorganisms is responsible for the red color3, and the co
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  • .... The rose color of the bacteria is formed by the optical activity of the carotenoids (pigments of chloroplast). Spirilloxanthin is the most abundant carotenoid ...hen the cells have a lot of pigment like the bacteriochlorophyll a and the carotenoids. When ''T. roseopersicina'' is growing under chemolithotropic conditions, i
    16 KB (2,246 words) - 19:04, 25 August 2010
  • ...iaceae is a result of membrane bound pigments such a bacteriorhodopsin and carotenoids that are able to capture high energy photons that would otherwise be capabl
    6 KB (801 words) - 02:55, 30 April 2013
  • ...ma serve as a food source for filter feeding flamingoes in soda lakes. The carotenoids in A. maxima give the birds their pink color.
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  • ...gment peak, eluting after 17.3±0.2 min. This suggests the presence of C-40 carotenoids. This is distinctly different from halophilic archaea (10). 9. Anton J, Balashov S, Boichenko V, Lanyi J, Wang J. “Functions of carotenoids in xanthorhodopsin and archaerhodopsin, from action spectra of photoinhibit
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  • ...ws '''[[Rhodospirillum]]''' to abosrob light with longer wavelengths. ''[[Carotenoids]]'' help the bacteria gather light energy for photosynthesis and give this
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  • ...d or dark brown. Photosynthetic pigments are bacetriochlorophyll ''a'' and carotenoids of the spirilloxanthin series (Brenner et al.).
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  • ...us aureus on TSA.jpg|thumb|300px|right|<b>Figure 4</b>: Staphyloxanthin, a carotenoids pigment. It gives the color of S. aureus and its ability to withstand oxida ...search showed that when crtM, the gene that contributes to the function of carotenoids pigment, was inhibited, <i>S. aureus</i> became more susceptible to ROS, in
    22 KB (3,332 words) - 03:04, 9 December 2022
  • ...also looked at using halophiles in industry to produce carotenoids. These carotenoids have numerous “potential uses in Biotechnology and Biomedicine.”<sup>[h
    21 KB (2,878 words) - 00:26, 6 May 2016
  • ...elgado-Vargas, F., Jimenez, A.R., and Paredes-Lopez, O. “Natural Pigments: Carotenoids, Anthocyanins, and Betalains — Characteristics, Biosynthesis, Processing,
    11 KB (1,482 words) - 13:38, 1 October 2015
  • ...ncentration were not measured for this bacterium. However, the presence of carotenoids within this bacterium likely allows it to have some levels of resistance to ...protein (2). Its genome also encodes genes that can be used to synthesize carotenoids that act as antioxidants and additional supports to increase tolerance of h
    36 KB (5,320 words) - 13:45, 22 July 2021
  • ...most often have a red-orange appearance that stems from the production of carotenoids via the metabolism of tepernoids and polyketides [7]. Carotenoid production
    11 KB (1,552 words) - 18:31, 23 April 2011
  • ...side (LH2 of ''R. acidophila'') and lycopene (LH2 of ''R. molischianum''). Carotenoids are useful not only in providing a greater range of absorption wavelengths,
    23 KB (3,351 words) - 20:12, 10 August 2010
  • ...ant Halobacteria. The red coloration of the ponds is due to C<sub>50</sub> carotenoids.[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Bay_Salt_Ponds.jpg]] ...synthesis.<ref name= Brock/> These species have red-colored C<sub>50</sub> carotenoids as their main pigment and their form of phototrophy does not fix carbon dio
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  • ...uced radicals[[#References|[5]]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotinoid Carotenoids] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin melanin] also form pigmentations
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  • ...nm, indicating the presence of carotenoids. Using mass spectroscopy, the carotenoids were identified to most likely be chlorobactene. The 16S rRNA sequence of
    28 KB (4,097 words) - 20:12, 10 August 2010
  • ...compounds either exclusively or as an alternative such as: biosurfactants, carotenoids, imidazol-2-yl amino acids, gordonan, gordonin. [2]
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  • ...ic pigments adjacent to the cytoplasmic membrane. Bacteriochlorophylls and carotenoids are the major photosynthetic pigments present. [1]<i>R. palustris</i> is co
    12 KB (1,828 words) - 20:16, 10 August 2010
  • ...he DNA damage done by UV light. They also contain large quantities of red carotenoids which have been studied to be photoprotective. (7) ''Halobacterium'' sp. NR
    13 KB (1,970 words) - 02:18, 7 March 2012
  • ...an those grown at optimal temperatures(4). Its cells contain chlorophylls, carotenoids, and phycobiliproteins, which are pigments capable of absorbing light energ
    14 KB (1,972 words) - 21:47, 31 October 2011
  • ...thin sheath. The orange color the the mats reflect high concentrations of carotenoids in the cells, this protects microbes underneath the mat from UV radiation.
    24 KB (3,468 words) - 13:38, 21 April 2011
  • ...ght, the small number of photosynthetic units it has, and its abundance of carotenoids. Aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria belong under the subclass of
    41 KB (6,298 words) - 02:57, 20 August 2010
  • ...ased on dynamic pigment ratios. The cells are also able to absorb light in carotenoids without transferring energy to PSII. On the community level, the colony org
    25 KB (3,999 words) - 18:27, 7 May 2015
  • ...otrophy, lamellar intracytoplasmic membranes hold bacteriochlorophylls and carotenoids, the photosynthetic pigments of the cell that make up the light harvesting
    30 KB (4,421 words) - 23:02, 28 April 2016
  • ...ght intensity). These proteins bind a large amount of the chlorophyll and carotenoids in the plant and play a role in both light capture and in the dissipation o
    28 KB (4,267 words) - 19:46, 19 February 2019
  • ...growth (19). As the cells of these bacteria proliferate, they synthesize carotenoids, organic pigments that protect against photooxidation as well as exhibit a
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  • Similar to the halophilic algae of the lake, the archaea also synthesize carotenoids and beta-carotene, which facilitates the repair of UV-damaged thymine dimer
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  • ...ase, which were most abundant at subzero and halophilic stress conditions. Carotenoids manipulate fatty acid composition in the membrane to prefer branched chain
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