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Halophilic organisms living in saline environments like salt lakes, coastal lagoons or man-made salterns are challenged by two stress factors, the high inorganic ion concentration and the low water potential. Prokaryotes have developed two principal mechanisms to cope with these stress factors and counteract the outflow of cytoplasmic water, namely, the “salt-in-cytoplasm” mechanism and the organic-osmolyte mechanism.
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Kunte, H.J. (2004). Osmoregulated Solute Transport in Halophilic Bacteria. In: Ventosa, A. (eds) Halophilic Microorganisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07656-9_10
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