Isolation of extremely halotolerant cocci from Antarctica

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Letters
• Main Authors: Nicolaus, B., Marsiglia, F., Esposito, E., Lama, L., Trincone, A., di Prisco, G., Gambacorta, A., Valderrama, M.J., Grant, W.D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1992
• Subjects: Articles; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://femsle.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/99/2-3/145; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1992.tb05557.x

Five non-motile Gram-positive cocci were isolated from saline located in geothermal regions of the Antarctic continent. The organisms were extremely halotolerant growing between 0 and 4.2 M NaCl. On the basis of the results of phenotypic characterizations, lipid and quinone analyses, and the amino acid composition of the cell the isolates have been assigned to the genus Micrococcus .