Halophilic bacteria are a group of microorganisms living in saline environments and some cases need the salinity to survive. Furthermore,these species have potential for interesting promising applications. In fact, this is due not only their ability adapt extreme physico-chemical conditions but also because many them they produce substances industry such as extracellular hydrolytic enzymes.The ...

Growth of Salinibacter ruber, a red, extremely halophilic bacterium phylogenetically affiliated with the Flavobacterium/Cytophaga branch of the domain Bacteria, is stimulated by a small number of sugars (glucose, maltose, starch at 1 g l(-1)). Glucose consumption starts after other substrates have been depleted. Glucose metabolism proceeds via a constitutive, salt-inhibited hexokinase and a con...