Genomics of Alkaliphiles.

Genomics of Alkaliphiles. Adv Biochem Eng Biotechnol. 2019 Feb 23;: Authors: Lebre PH, Cowan DA Abstract Alkalinicity presents a challenge for life due to a "reversed" proton gradient that is unfavourable to many bioenergetic processes across the membranes of microorganisms. Despite this, many bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, collectively termed alkaliphiles, are adapted to life in alkaline ecosystems and are of great scientific and biotechnological interest due to their niche specialization and ability to produce highly stable enzymes. Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have propelled not only the genomic characterization of many alkaliphilic microorganisms that have been isolated from nature alkaline sources but also our understanding of the functional relationships between different taxa in microbial communities living in these ecosystems. In this review, we discuss the genetics and molecular biology of alkaliphiles from an "omics" point of view, focusing on how metagenomics and transcriptomics have contributed to our understanding of these extremophiles. Graphical Abstract. PMID: 30796503 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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