Instability of waves formed by motile bacteria |
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| Authors: | AB Medvinsky MA Tsyganov VP Kutyshenko VYu Shakhbazian IB Kresteva GR Ivanitsky |
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| Institution: | Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, and the Moshe Shilo Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Cell-free enzyme preparations of the obligately anaerobic halophilic eubacterium Haloanaerobium praevalens synthesize fatty acids from malonyl-CoA. The reaction is stimulated by NaCl and KCl at a concentration of 1 M, and only slightly inhibited by salt concentrations as high as 3 M. Thus, the fatty acid synthetase of H. praevalens is expected to the fully active at the high intracellular salt concentrations present, and it is the first fatty acid synthetase reported to be active in the presence of high salt concentrations. |
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| Keywords: | Fatty acid synthetase Haloanaerobium praevalens Halophilic Anaerobic |
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