Halotolerant

Halophilic or Halotolerant Bacteria which thrive in a highly salt environment, up to 25% NaCl. 

Ben-Amotz, A., Katz, A., and Avron, M., Accumulation of 3-carotene in halotolerant algae pnrification and characterization of P -carotene-rich globules from Dunaliella bardawil (chlorophyceae), J. Physiol, 18, 529, 1982. 

Gauthier Ml, B Lafay, R Christen, L Fernandez, M Acquaviva, P Bonin, J-C Bertrand (1992) Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new extremely halotolerant, hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 42 568-576. 

T. E Yen, J. K. Park, K. I. Lee, and Y. Li. Fate of surfactant vesicles surviving from thermophilic, halotolerant, spore forming, Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum. In E. C. Donaldson, editor. Microbial enhancement of oil recovery recent advances Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Microbial Enhancement of Oil Recovery,... 

Asad S, Amoozegar MA, Pourbabaee AA et al (2007) Decolorization of textile azo dyes by newly isolated halophilic and halotolerant bacteria. Bioresour Technol 98 2082-2088... 

High salt concentrations up to 15-20% can be found in wastewater from dyestuff industries. Moreover, textile manufacturers located on coastal areas can cause pollution of seawater. The biological treatability of wastewater with a high saline concentration is limited because most of the microorganisms that are able to degrade azo dyes are not active in these conditions, in which the selection of halophilic or halotolerant bacteria capable to degrade azo dyes is necessary [79]. 

Fisher, M., Zamir, A. and Pick, U. (1998). Iron uptake by the halotolerant alga Dunaliella is mediated by a plasma membrane transferrin, J. Biol. Chem., 273, 17553-17558. 

Rosello-Mora RA, Caccavo F Jr, Osterlehner K, et al. 1994. Isolation and taxonomic characterization of a halotolerant, facultatively iron-reducing bacterium. Syst Appl Microbiol 17 569-73. 

In the monsoon season the salinity in mangrove forests may drop to very low levels, limiting the variety of marine life to halotolerant species, in particular lignicolous fimgi. Besides metabolites from fiuigi and the mangroves themselves (Miles 1991), secondary metabolites in the mangrove areas have... 

R. Margesin and F. Schinner, Potential of halotolerant and halophilic microorganisms for biotechnology, Extremophiles 2001, 5, 73-83. 

Vreeland HR, Rosenzweig WD, Powers DW. Isolation of a 250 million-year old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal. Nature 2000 407 897. 

Kato C, Li L, Nogi Y, Nakamura Y, Tamaoka J, and Horikoshi K (1998) Extremely barophilic bacteria isolated from the Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep, at a depth of 11,000 meters. Appl Environ Microbiol 64 1510-1513 Kaye JZ, Baross JA (2000) High incidence of halotolerant bacteria in Pacific hydrothermal-vent and pelagic environments. FEMS Microbiology Ecol 32 249-260... 

U. Pick and M. Weiss (1991). Polyphosphate hydrolysis within acidic vacuoles in responce to amino-induced alkaline stress in the halotolerant alga Dunaliella salina. Plant. Physiol, 97, 1234—1240. 

Hortaea werneckii is a dimorphic black yeast which exclusively causes tinea nigra palmaris on one or both hands or on the sole. It is restricted to tropical, subtropical and mediterranean areas [80]. H. werneckii is halotolerant having its natural habitat in salty environments [306]. Complete sequences of the 18S rDNA (fig. 3) [89] as well as partial sequences of the 26S rDNA suggest a relationship of H. werneckii with the Dothideales. 

Zalar P, de Hoog GS, Gunde-Cimerman N Ecology of halotolerant dothideaceous black yeasts. Stud Mycol 1999 43 38-48. 

Ike, A., Toda, N., Tsuji, N., Hirata, K. and Miyamoto, K. (1997b). Hydrogen photoproduction from C02-fixing microalgal biomass application of halotolerant photosynthetic bacteria. J. Ferment. Bioeng. 84, 606-609. 

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