Comments on: Living a Salty Life

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:43:57 +0000

Thanks for noticing!
For those interested, the link can be found here: http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/a_year_of_research_blogging/

By: Lab Rat

Lab Rat — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:12:08 +0000

You’re in Seed! Mentioned as one of Vincent Racaniello’s favourite posts of the year :) Congrats.

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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:05:21 +0000

[...] the name, there is life in the Dead Sea. Halophilic bacteria and archaebacteria that live in the hypersaline environment have evolved two different ways to avoid osmotic [...]

By: Lucas

Lucas — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:12:25 +0000

Since the proteins of these archaea are so different (they contain a much higher percentage of aspartic and glutamic acid), I’m also wondering how effective they are compared to the analogous/homologous enzymes in non-halophiles. Fascinating stuff!

By: Lab Rat

Lab Rat — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:31:01 +0000

Really interesting! I knew there were bacteria that were able to keep large amounts of salt out (sometimes with a massive internal pumping vacuole) but I didn’t realise that some archaea could actually survive normally under such high internal salt conditions. I wonder how much that affects fundemental processes, like respiration and DNA maintenance.