Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Cyanobacteria

  • Chapter
Hypersaline Environments

Part of the book series: Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience ((BROCK/SPRINGER))

Abstract

Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) constitute a separate group of phototrophic eubacteria. They are distinct from the other groups of phototrophic procar-yotes by certain aspects of their cell organization as well as by their synthesis of chlorophyll a and phycobilin pigments which are used for oxygenic photosynthesis. In addition, some cyanobacteria can perform anoxygenic photosynthesis. There is greater morphological diversity among the cyanobacteria than among many other groups of bacteria. Several taxonomic surveys of cyanobacteria from hypersaline environments have been published and are compiled in this volume. The physiology and biochemistry of several isolated species of halophilic cyanobacteria are discussed below. Studies of the primary productivity of halophilic cyanobacteria in their natural habitats are presented in Chapters 12–20.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Asami, S., Takabe, T., Akazawa, T., and Codd, G.A. 1983. Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase from the halophilic cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 225: 713–721.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bauld, J. 1981. Occurrence of microbial mats in saline lakes. Hydrobiologia 81: 87–111.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Belkin, S. and Padan, E. 1978. Hydrogen metabolism in the facultative anoxygenic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) Oscillatoria limnetica and Aphanothece halophytica. Archives of Microbiology 116: 109–111.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Brock, T.D. 1976. Halophilic blue-green algae. Archives of Microbiology 107: 109–111.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Codd, G.A., Cook, C.M., and Stewart, W.D.P. 1979. Purification and subunit structure of D-ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase from the cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica. FEMS Microbiology Letters 6: 81–86.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, Y. 1975. Dynamics of Procaryotic Photosynthetic Communities of the Solar lake, pp. 99–104. Ph.D. Thesis. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, Y. 1984. The Solar Lake cyanobacterial mats: strategies of photosynthetic life under sulfide, pp. 133–148 in Cohen, Y., Castenholz, R.W. and Halvorson, H.O. (editors), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites, MBL Lectures in Biology, vol. 3, Alan R. Liss, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, Y., Padan, E., and Shilo, M. 1975a. Facultative anoxygenic photosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria limnetica. Journal of Bacteriology 123: 855–861.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, Y., Jargensen, B.B., Padan, E., and Shilo, M. 1975b. Sulfide dependent anoxygenic photosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria limnetica. Nature (London) 257: 489–492.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, Y., Jørgensen, B.B., Revsbech, N.P., and Poplawski, R. 1986. Adaptation to hydrogen sulfide of oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis among cyanobacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 51: 398–407.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Colclasure, G.C., Yopp, J.H., and Tindall, D.R. 1974. Characterization of the fatty acids of the obligately halophilic blue-green alga, Aphanothece halophytica. American Journal of Botany (Supplement) 61: 21–22.

    Google Scholar 

  • Davis, J.S. 1978. Biological communities of a nutrient enriched salina. Aquatic Botany 4: 23–42.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Erlich, A. and Dor, I. 1985. Photosynthetic microorganisms of the Gavish Sabkha, pp. 296–321 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha. Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fattom, A. and Shilo, M. 1984. Hydrophobicity as an adhesion mechanism of benthic cyanobacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 47: 135–143.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Felix, E.A. and Rushforth, S.R. 1979. The algal flora of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, U.S.A. Nova Hedwigia 31: 163–194.

    Google Scholar 

  • Garlick, S., Oren, A., and Padan, E. 1977. Occurrence of facultative anoxygenic photosynthesis among filamentous and unicellular cyanobacteria. Journal of Bacteriology 129: 623–629.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Gerdes, G., Krumbein, W.E., and Holtkamp, E. 1985. Salinity and water activity related zonation of microbial communities and potential stromatolites of the Gavish Sabkha, pp. 238–266 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Golubic, S. 1980. Halophily and halotolerance in cyanophytes. Origins of Life 10:169–183.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hammer, U.T., Shamess, J. and Haynes, R.C. 1983. The distribution and abundance of algae in saline lakes of Saskatchewan, Canada. Hydrobiologia 105: 1–26.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Imhoff, J.F., Hashwa, F., and Trüper, H.G. 1978. Isolation of extremely halophilic phototrophic bacteria from the alkaline Wadi Natrun, Egypt. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 84: 381–388.

    Google Scholar 

  • Imhoff, J.F., Sahl, H.G., Soliman, G.S.H., and Trüper, H.G. 1979. The Wadi Natrun: chemical composition and microbial mass developments in alkaline brines of eu-trophic desert lakes. Geomicrobiology Journal 1: 219–234.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Incharden Sakdi, A., Takabe, T., and Akazawa, T. 1985. Factors affecting the dissociation and reconstitution of ribulose-l,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from Aphanothece halophytica. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 237: 445–453.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Javor, B.J. 1983. Planktonic standing crop and nutrients in a saltern ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography 28: 153–159.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Javor, B.J. and Castenholz, R.W. 1984. Productivity studies of microbial mats, Laguna Guerrero Negro, Mexico, pp. 149–170 in Cohen, Y., Castenholz, R.W. and Halvorson, H.O. (editors), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites, MBL Lectures in Biology, vol. 3, Alan R. Liss, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jorgensen, B.B., Revsbech, N.P., and Cohen, Y. 1983. Photosynthesis and structure of benthic microbial mats: microelectrode and SEM studies of four cyanobacterial communities. Limnology and Oceanography 28: 1075–1093.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jørgensen, B.B. and Des Marais, D.J. 1986. Competition for sulfide among colorless and purple sulfur bacteria in cyanobacterial mats. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 38: 179–186.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Jørgensen, B.B., Cohen, Y., and Revsbech, N.P. 1986. Transition from anoxygenic to oxygenic photosynthesis in a Microcoleus chthonoplastes cyanobacterial mat. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 51: 408–417.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kao, O.H.W., Berns, D.S., and Town, W.R. 1973. The characterization of c-phycocyanin from an extremely halo-tolerant blue-green alga, Cocchloris elabens. Biochemical Journal 131: 39–50.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Krumbein, W.E., Cohen, Y., and Shilo, M. 1977. Solar Lake (Sinai). 4. Stromatolitic cyanobacterial mats. Limnology and Oceanography 22: 635–656.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mackay, M.A., Norton, R.S., and Borowitzka, L.J. 1983. Marine blue-green algae have a unique osmoregulatory system. Marine Biology 73: 301–307.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mackay, M.A., Norton, R.S., and Borowitzka, L.J. 1984. Organic osmoregulatory solutes in cyanobacteria. Journal of General Microbiology 130: 2177–2191.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Melack, J.M. 1981. Photosynthetic activity of phytoplankton in tropical African soda lakes. Hydrobiologia 81:71–85.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller, D.M., Jones, J.H., Yopp, J.H., Tindall, D.R., and Schmid, W.E. 1976. Ion metabolism in a halophilic blue-green alga, Aphanothece halophytica. Archives of Microbiology 111: 145–149.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mohammad, F.A.A., Reed, R.H., and Stewart, W.D.P. 1983. The halophilic cyano-bacterium Synechocystis DUN 52 and its osmotic responses. FEMS Microbiology Letters 16: 287–290.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Oren, A., Padan, E., and Avron, M. 1977. Quantum yields for oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria limnetica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science U.S.A. 74: 2152–2156.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Oren, A. and Shilo, M. 1979. Anaerobic heterotrophic dark metabolism in the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria limnetica: sulfur respiration and lactate fermentation. Archives of Microbiology 122: 77–84.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Oren, A., Padan, E., and Malkin, S. 1979. Sulfide inhibition of photosystem II in cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and tobacco chloroplasts. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 546: 270–279.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Oren, A., Fattom, A., Padan, E., and Tietz, A. 1985. Unsaturated fatty acid composition and biosynthesis in Oscillatoria limnetica and other cyanobacteria. Archives of Microbiology 141: 138–142.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Post, F.J. 1977. The microbial ecology of the Great Salt Lake. Microbial Ecology 3: 143–165.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Post, F.J. 1981. Microbiology of the Great Salt Lake North Arm. Hydrobiologia 81: 59–69.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Potts, M. 1980. Blue-green algae (Cyanophyta) in marine coastal environments of the Sinai peninsula; distribution, zonation, stratification and taxonomic diversity. Phycologia 19: 60–73.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Reed, R.H., Richardson, D.L., Warr, S.R.C., and Stewart, W.D.P. 1984. Carbohydrate accumulation and osmotic stress in cyanobacteria. Journal of General Microbiology 130: 1–4.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Simon, R.D. 1981. Gliding motility in Aphanothece halophytica: analysis of wall protein in mot mutants. Journal of Bacteriology 148: 315–321.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Tindall, D.R., Yopp, J.H., Schmid, W.E., and Miller, D.M. 1977. Protein and amino acid composition of the obligate halophile Aphanothece halophytica (Cyanophyta). Journal of Phycology 13: 127–133.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Tindall, J.H., Miller, D.M., and Schmid, W.E. 1978. Physico-chemical parameters governing the growth of Aphanothece halophytica (Chroococcales) in hypersaline media. Phycologia 17: 179–185.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • van Rijn, J. and Cohen, Y. 1983. Ecophysiology of the cyanobacterium Dactylococcopsis salina: effects of light intensity, sulphide and temperature. Journal of General Microbiology 129: 1849–1856.

    Google Scholar 

  • Walsby, A.E., van Rijn, J., and Cohen, Y. 1983. The biology of a new gasvacuolate cyanobacterium, Dactylococcopsis salina sp. nov., in Solar Lake. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 217: 417–447.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Warr, S.R.C., Reed, R.H., and Stewart, W.D.P. 1984. Osmotic adjustment of cyano-bacteria: the effects of NaCl, KCl, sucrose and glycine betaine on glutamine synthetase activity in a marine and a halotolerant strain. Journal of General Microbiology 130: 2169–2175.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Yopp, J.H., Tindall, D.R., Miller, D.M., and Schmid W.E. 1978a. Isolation, purification and evidence for a halophilic nature of the blue-green alga Aphanothece halophytica Fremy (Chroococcales). Phycologia 17: 172–178.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Yopp, J.H., Miller, D.M., and Tindall, D.R. 1978. Regulation of intracellular water potential in the halophilic blue-green alga Aphanothece halophytica (Chroococcales), pp. 619–624 in Caplan, S.R. and Ginzburg, M. (editors), Energy and Structure of Halophilic Microorganisms, Development in Halophilic Microorganisms, vol. 1, El-sevier-North-Holland Biomedical Press, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yopp, J.H., Albright, G., and Miller, D.M. 1979. Effects of antibiotics and ultraviolet radiation on the halophilic blue-green alga, Aphanothece halophytica. Botanica Marina 22: 267–272.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Barbara Javor
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1989 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Javor, B. (1989). Cyanobacteria. In: Hypersaline Environments. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74370-2_9

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74370-2_9

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-74372-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-74370-2

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation