acidophilic

(adjective)

Being an acidophile.

Examples of acidophilic in the following topics:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • Hyperthermophiles from Terrestrial Volcanic Habitats

    • ., it is an acidophile as well as thermophile).
  • Habitats and Energy Metabolism of Crenarchaeota

  • Nongenetic Categories for Medicine and Ecology

    • Acidophile: an organism with optimal growth at levels of pH 3 or below
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