Isolation of extremely halotolerant cocci from Antarctica |
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| Authors: | B. Nicolaus F. Marsiglia E. Esposito L. Lama A. Trincone G. di Prisco A. Gambacorta M.J. Valderrama W.D. Grant |
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| Affiliation: | Instituto per la Chimica di Molecule di Interesse Biologico, CNR, Arco Felice, Italy;Instituto di Biochimica della Proteine ed Enzimologie, CNR, Napoli, Italy;Department of Microbiology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Five non-motile Gram-positive cocci were isolated from saline located in geothermal regions of the Antarctic continent. The organisms were extremely halotolerant growing between 0 and 4.2 M NaCl. On the basis of the results of phenotypic characterizations, lipid and quinone analyses, and the amino acid composition of the cell the isolates have been assigned to the genus Micrococcus . |
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| Keywords: | Antarctica Halotolerant bacteria Micrococcus |
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