Halobacterium

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Halobacterium
-Cool, cuz it turns stuff red!
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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

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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)

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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 cant forget its cool because it can
turn things red!
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