Halorubrum sodomense
Classification
Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Halobacteria; Haloferacales; Halorubraceae (BacDive. “Halorubrum Sodomense RD 26 Is a Mesophilic Archaeon of the Family Halorubraceae.” BacDive, https://bacdive.dsmz.de/strain/5939.)
Species
"Halorubrum sodomense"
Discovered in 1980 (Oren, Aharon. “Halobacterium Sodomense Sp. Nov., a Dead Sea Halobacterium with an Extremely High Magnesium Requirement.” International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Microbiology Society, 1 Apr. 1983, https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-33-2-381.)
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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 and hypersaline (concentrated seawater)
Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle
On the surface: AR3 (Archaerhodopsin) retrieves energy from sun (“Taxonomy Browser (Root).” National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi.), Growth of the microbe stems from high ion concentration of Mg2+, Create salt-tolerant bacteria, Lives in a 10x higher sodium concentrated environment, Presents an acidic level pH of 6.0 (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. ↵)
Ecology and Pathogenesis
Located on the surface of the Dead Sea and other high salt concentration bodies of water, Recombination has genetic information exchanged, mesophilic temperature ranges (BacDive. “Halorubrum Sodomense RD 26 Is a Mesophilic Archaeon of the Family Halorubraceae.” BacDive, https://bacdive.dsmz.de/strain/5939.), Ranks as a biosafety risk group level 1 (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.)
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. ↵
Oren, Aharon. “Halobacterium Sodomense Sp. Nov., a Dead Sea Halobacterium with an Extremely High Magnesium Requirement.” International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Microbiology Society, 1 Apr. 1983, https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-33-2-381.
“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.
