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Halobacterium

Halobacterium. -Cool, cuz it turns stuff red!. Halobacterium. The halobacterium has been around for billions of years Species: H. salinarium Strain: NRC-1 Organism: Archaea (meaning: no nucleus!). Halobacterium is way cool cuz: has to have a lot of salt to live (yum!)

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Halobacterium

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  1. Halobacterium -Cool, cuz it turns stuff red!

  2. Halobacterium The halobacterium has been around for billions of years Species: H. salinarium Strain: NRC-1 Organism: Archaea (meaning: no nucleus!) • Halobacterium is way cool cuz: • has to have a lot of salt to live (yum!) • found in every day objects! • attributed to spoiling • grows at a neutral pH

  3. Sequence That Sucka! • MODEL ARCHAEA • 35% of proteins are unrelated to what is previously reported • can go through many methods of gene manipulation • utilization of amino acids • EASY TO CULTIVATE • grows in salt • grows in neutral pH • can live in extreme conditions • THE ACTUAL SEQUENCING • Sequenced by U of Washington, U of Massachusetts, and Institute of Systems Biology • Announced the complete sequence at Oct 3, 2000 • Size: 2,571,010-bp (2630 predicted proteins) • Main Chromosome (2,014,239 bp) GC (67.9%) • Plasmid p100 (191,346 bp) GC (59.1%) • Plasmid p200 (365, 425 bp) GC (57.8%)

  4. We want to know this cuz… We Love Halobacterium Halobacterium today is used to develop orally administered vaccines and to design new antibiotics • Although it is a archaea, has pathways to amino acids, potassium, DNA replication/ transcription/ translation, like eukaryotes. Although the halobacterium is an archaea, it is very closely related to bacillus subtilis (which is a bacteria) Plus.. we can’t forget… it’s cool because it can turn things red!

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