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Volume 169, Issue 4

: Life with more than a grain of salt Open Access

This article is part of the Microbe Profiles collection.

Abstract

is a halophilic (salt-loving) archaeon that grows in salt concentrations near or at saturation. Although isolated from salted fish a century ago, it was the 1971 discovery of bacteriorhodopsin, the light-driven proton pump, that raised interest in across a range of disciplines, including biophysics, chemistry, molecular evolution and biotechnology. have since contributed to numerous discoveries, such as advances in membrane protein structure determination and the first example of a non-eukaryal glycoprotein. Work on , one of the species used to define Archaea, has also elucidated molecular workings in the third domain. Finally, presents creative solutions to the challenges of life in high salt.

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Keyword(s): Archaea , Halobacterium salinarum and halophiles
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Israel Science Foundation (Award 414/20)
    • Principle Award Recipient: JerryEichler
© 2023 The Authors
  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The Microbiology Society waived the open access fees for this article.
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