Oceanobacillus iheyensis explained

Oceanobacillus iheyensis is a bacterium, the type species of its genus. It is a deep-sea species, having been isolated from a depth of 1050m (3,450feet), and is extremely halotolerant and alkaliphilic. Its type strain is HTE831 (JCM 11309^T, DSM 14371^T).^[1] Oceanobacillus iheyensis HTE831 is an alkaliphilic and extremely halotolerant Bacillus-related species isolated from deep-sea sediment.^[2]

Further reading

• Takami . Hideto . Takaki . Yoshihiro . Uchiyama . Ikuo . Genome sequence of Oceanobacillus iheyensis isolated from the Iheya Ridge and its unexpected adaptive capabilities to extreme environments . Nucleic Acids Research . 15 September 2002 . 30 . 18 . 3927–3935 . 137110 . 12235376 . 10.1093/nar/gkf526 .
• Toor . Navtej . Keating . Kevin S. . Fedorova . Olga . Rajashankar . Kanagalaghatta . Wang . Jimin . Pyle . Anna Marie . Tertiary architecture of the Oceanobacillus iheyensis group II intron . RNA . 2010 . 16 . 1 . 57–69 . 10.1261/rna.1844010 . 19952115 . 2802037 .

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Oceanobacillus iheyensis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Lu . Jie . Nogi . Yuichi . Takami . Hideto . Oceanobacillus iheyensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a deep-sea extremely halotolerant and alkaliphilic species isolated from a depth of 1050 m on the Iheya Ridge . FEMS Microbiology Letters . December 2001 . 205 . 2 . 291–297 . 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2001.tb10963.x . 11750818 . free .
2. Takami . H. . Takaki . Y . Uchiyama . I . Genome sequence of Oceanobacillus iheyensis isolated from the Iheya Ridge and its unexpected adaptive capabilities to extreme environments . Nucleic Acids Research . 15 September 2002 . 30 . 18 . 3927–3935 . 10.1093/nar/gkf526 . 12235376 . 137110 .