Summary
Salinibacter ruber is an extremely halophilic red bacterium, first found in Spain in 2002.
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| Family: | Salinibacteraceae
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| Genus: | Salinibacter
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| Species: | S. ruber
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| Salinibacter ruber Antón et al., 2002
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Habitat edit
Salinibacter ruber was found in saltern crystallizer ponds in Alicante and Mallorca, Spain in 2002 by Antón et al. This environment has very high salt concentrations, and Salinibacter ruber itself cannot grow at below 15% salt concentration, with an ideal concentration between 20 and 30%.[1] It has also been found in pink lakes in Australia.[2][3]
This bacterium is notable for its halophilic lifestyle, a trait exhibited primarily by members of Archaea. In general, bacteria do not play a large role in microbial communities of hypersaline brines at or approaching NaCl saturation. However, with the discovery of S. ruber, this belief was challenged. It was found that S. ruber made up from 5% to 25% of the total prokaryotic community of the Spanish saltern ponds.[1]
Taxonomy edit
Salinibacter ruber is most closely related to the genus Rhodothermus which is a thermophilic, slightly halophilic bacterium. Though genetically it is considered to be closest to the Rhodothermus genus, it is most comparable to the family Halobacteriaceae, because of similarity in protein structure.[1] It is red-pigmented, motile, rod-shaped, and extremely halophilic. The type strain is strain M31T(= DSM 13855T = CECT 5946T).
Characteristics edit
In a 2015 study conducted by researchers led by molecular biologist Ken McGrath at Lake Hillier, Western Australia, showed that, while the algae Dunaliella salina, formerly thought to create the color in this pink lake, was present in only tiny quantities (0.1% of DNA sampled), while S. ruber formed 20[2] to 33%[4][5][3][a] of the DNA recovered from the lake.[2]
Salinibacter ruber produces a pigment called bacterioruberin, which helps it to trap and use light for energy in the photosynthesis process. While the pigments in algae are contained within the chloroplasts, bacterioruberin is spread across the whole cell of the bacterium. This makes it more likely that the colour of the lake is that of S. ruber.[3]
Footnotes edit
- ^ Conflicting reports of percentage.
References edit
- ^ a b c Antón J; Oren A; Benlloch S; Rodríguez-Valera F; Amann R; Rosselló-Mora R (March 2002). "Salinibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, extremely halophilic member of the Bacteria from saltern crystallizer ponds". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (Pt 2): 485–91. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-2-485. hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-D329-3. PMID 11931160. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ^ a b c Salleh, Anna (4 January 2022). "Why Australia has so many pink lakes and why some of them are losing their colour". ABC News. ABC Science. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ a b c Cassella, Carly (13 December 2016). "How an Australian lake turned bubble-gum pink". Australian Geographic. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "Here's the Real Reason Why Australia Has Bubblegum Pink Lakes". Discovery. 24 December 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "Why is Pink Lake on Middle Island, off the coast of Esperance, pink?". Australia's Golden Outback. Includes extract from Australian Geographic article. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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Further reading edit
- Mongodin, E. F. (2005). "The genome of Salinibacter ruber: Convergence and gene exchange among hyperhalophilic bacteria and archaea". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (50): 18147–18152. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10218147M. doi:10.1073/pnas.0509073102. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1312414. PMID 16330755.
- Brochier-Armanet, Celine; Antón, Josefa; Lucio, Marianna; Peña, Arantxa; Cifuentes, Ana; Brito-Echeverría, Jocelyn; Moritz, Franco; Tziotis, Dimitrios; López, Cristina; Urdiain, Mercedes; Schmitt-Kopplin, Philippe; Rosselló-Móra, Ramon (2013). "High Metabolomic Microdiversity within Co-Occurring Isolates of the Extremely Halophilic Bacterium Salinibacter ruber". PLOS ONE. 8 (5): e64701. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...864701A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064701. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3669384. PMID 23741374.
- Oren, Aharon; Mana, Lili (2003). "Sugar metabolism in the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruber". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 223 (1): 83–87. doi:10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00345-8. ISSN 0378-1097. PMID 12799004.
- Sher, Jonathan; Elevi, Rahel; Mana, Lily; Oren, Aharon (2004). "Glycerol metabolism in the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruber". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 232 (2): 211–215. doi:10.1016/S0378-1097(04)00077-1. ISSN 0378-1097. PMID 15033241.
- Pašić, Lejla; Rodriguez-Mueller, Beltran; Martin-Cuadrado, Ana-Belen; Mira, Alex; Rohwer, Forest; Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco (2009). "Metagenomic islands of hyperhalophiles: the case of Salinibacter ruber". BMC Genomics. 10 (1): 570. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-570. ISSN 1471-2164. PMC 2800850. PMID 19951421.
External links edit
- "Salinibacter ruber" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- "Salinibacter ruber at Microbe Wiki".
- Type strain of Salinibacter ruber at BacDive – the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase