Halorubrum sodomense

Classification

Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Halobacteria; Haloferacales; Halorubraceae

Species

"Halorubrum sodomense"

(Discovered in 1980)

NCBI: [1]

Description and Significance

Grows in high salt concentrated water, Uses ATP synthesis from a sunlight driven photoreceptor protein, Important for assisting with development of optogenetics, Salt tolerant

Genome Structure

In the genome: Two chromosomes and one plasmid, Circular shape, Proteins functioning in high saline/low temperature environments, Lives in hostile environments with immense solar exposure

Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle

On the surface: AR3 (Archaerhodopsin) retrieves energy from sun, Growth stems from high ion concentration of Mg2+, Create salt-tolerant bacteria

Ecology and Pathogenesis

Located on surface water of Dead Sea and other high salt concentration bodies of water, Recombination has genetic information exchanged, mesophilic temperature ranges, biosafety risk group level 1

References

Admin. “Legislative Texts and Technical Rules - TRBA 466 Classification of Prokaryotes (Bacteria and Archaea) into Risk Groups.” BAuA, Dec. 2010, https://www.baua.de/EN/Service/Legislative-texts-and-technical-rules/Rules/TRBA/TRBA-466.html.

BacDive. “Halorubrum Sodomense RD 26 Is a Mesophilic Archaeon of the Family Halorubraceae.” BacDive, https://bacdive.dsmz.de/strain/5939.

Bodaker, I, Itai, S, Suzuki, MT, Feingersch, R, Rosenberg, M, Maguire, ME, Shimshon, B, and others. Comparative community genomics in the Dead Sea: An increasingly extreme environment. The ISME Journal 4 (2010): 399–407, doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.141. published online 24 December 2009. ↵

“Halorubrum.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Sept. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halorubrum#:~:text=Halorubrum%20sodomense%20was%20first%20identified%20in,tools%20in%20optogenetics%20for%20neuroscience%20research.&text=Halorubrum%20sodomense%20was%20first,optogenetics%20for%20neuroscience%20research.&text=was%20first%20identified%20in,tools%20in%20optogenetics%20for.

“Taxonomy Browser (Root).” National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi.

Author

Page authored by Hannah Arostegui, student of Prof. Bradley Tolar at UNC Wilmington.