Culture-Dependent Bioprospecting of Halophilic Microorganisms from Portuguese Salterns.

ABSTRACT: Extreme hypersaline environments harbour a unique biodiversity capable of surviving in such habitats, including halophilic and halotolerant bacteria. Microbial adaptations to these environments comprehend two main strategies: the "salt-in" that involves a high intracellular concentration of salts (e.g., potassium), and the "salt-out" that relies on the accumulation of small organic compounds (e.g., glycine betaine and trehalose). These evolutionary haloadaptations, combined with natural population competitiveness, often promotes the production of distinctive antimicrobial compounds, highlighting hypersaline environments as promising rich sources of novel natural products with biotechnological potential. Aiming at enlarging the knowledge on the microbiota of two Portuguese salterns (Aveiro

SUBMITTER: Almeida E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12736195 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature