acidophilic
(adjective)
Being an acidophile.
Examples of acidophilic in the following topics:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Hyperthermophiles from Terrestrial Volcanic Habitats
- ., it is an acidophile as well as thermophile).
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Habitats and Energy Metabolism of Crenarchaeota
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Nongenetic Categories for Medicine and Ecology
- Acidophile: an organism with optimal growth at levels of pH 3 or below