acidophile

Examples of acidophile in the following topics:

• Acidobacteria

  • The members of this phylum are acidophilic, physiologically diverse, and are ubiquitous in soils.
  • Acidophilic organisms are capable of thriving under highly acidic conditions.
  • For example, most acidophiles are able to pump protons out of the intracellular space to maintain a neutral pH within the cytoplasm.
  • However, not all members of this phylum are considered to be acidophilic.

• Microbial Growth at Low or High pH

  • Acidophilic organisms are those that thrive under highly acidic conditions (usually at pH 2.0 or below).
  • Most acidophile organisms have evolved extremely efficient mechanisms to pump protons out of the intracellular space in order to keep the cytoplasm at or near neutral pH.
  • However, other acidophiles, such as Acetobacter aceti, have an acidified cytoplasm which forces nearly all proteins in the genome to evolve acid stability.

• Thermoplasmatales, Thermocaccales, and Methanopyrus

  • All are acidophiles, growing optimally at pH below 2.
  • Picrophilus is currently the most acidophilic of all known organisms growing at a minimum pH of 0.06.

• Iron Oxidation

  • The first are acidophiles, such as the bacteria Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Leptospirillum ferrooxidans, as well as the archaeon Ferroplasma.
  • Outline the purpose of iron oxidation and the three types of ferrous iron-oxidizing microbes (acidophiles, microaerophiles and anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria)

• Hyperthermophiles from Terrestrial Volcanic Habitats

  • ., it is an acidophile as well as thermophile).

• Habitats and Energy Metabolism of Crenarchaeota

• Nongenetic Categories for Medicine and Ecology

  • Acidophile: an organism with optimal growth at levels of pH 3 or below