| a new lineage of halophilic, wall-less, contractile bacteria from a brine-filled deep of the red sea. | a novel strictly anaerobic bacterium designated strain ssd-17b(t) was isolated from the hypersaline brine-sediment interface of the shaban deep, red sea. cells were pleomorphic but usually consisted of a central coccoid body with one or two "tentacle-like" protrusions. these protrusions actively alternated between a straight, relaxed form and a contracted, corkscrew-like one. a peptidoglycan layer was not detected by electron microscopy. the organism forms "fried-egg"-like colonies on mm-x mediu ... | 2008 | 18326567 |
| genome sequence of haloplasma contractile, an unusual contractile bacterium from a deep-sea anoxic brine lake. | we present the draft genome of haloplasma contractile, isolated from a deep-sea brine and representing a new order between firmicutesand mollicutes. its complex morphology with contractile protrusions might be strongly influenced by the presence of seven mreb/mbl homologs, which appears to be the highest copy number ever reported. | 2011 | 21705599 |