Compatible solutes are a functional group of small, highly soluble organic molecules that
demonstrate compatibility in high amounts with cellular metabolism. The accumulation of …

Highlights•Extremolytes protect extremophilic microbes from environmental stress.•They
enable multiple applications in cosmetics, food, and health industry.•Ectoine is the industrial …

Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes to have evolved oxygenic photosynthesis paving the
way for complex life. Studying the evolution and ecological niche of cyanobacteria and their …

Psychrophilic archaea are abundant and perform critical roles throughout the Earth's
expansive cold biosphere. Here we report the first complete genome sequence for a …

The synthesis and accumulation of compatible solutes represent an essential part of the salt
acclimation strategy of microorganisms. Glucosylglycerol is considered to be the typical …

A decade ago the compatible solutes mannosylglycerate (MG) and glucosylglycerate (GG)
were considered to be rare in nature. Apart from two species of thermophilic bacteria …

The accumulation of compatible solutes, either by uptake from the medium or by de novo
synthesis, is a general response of microorganisms to osmotic stress. The diversity of …

The substrate profiles for three uncharacterized enzymes (YcjM, YcjT, and YcjU) that are
expressed from a cluster of 12 genes (ycjM-W and ompG) of unknown function in …

Family GH13_18 of the carbohydrate-active enzyme database consists of retaining
glycoside phosphorylases that have attracted interest with their potential for synthesizing …

During their long evolution, cyanobacteria were able to inhabit all light-exposed ecosystems.
One of the main environmental factors determining cyanobacterial distribution is the salinity …