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Meet Vibrio natriegens, the Usain Bolt of the bacterial world! 🏃♂️💨 This speedster divides faster than your WiFi drops during a Zoom call, making it the ultimate microbial workhorse. Found chillin’ in saltwater, it’s got big dreams in biotech, from biofuels to medicine. Who knew a tiny ocean dweller could be such a powerhouse?
Gram-negative, rod-shaped, motile bacterium.
Facultative anaerobe, halophilic (salt-loving), and known for its extremely fast growth rate.
Plays a crucial role in organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling in marine ecosystems.
consume a large variety of carbon substrates, reduce nitrates, and even fix nitrogen from the atmosphere under nitrogen-limiting and anaerobic conditions.
Biotechnology: Used as a model organism due to its rapid growth rate, making it ideal for genetic engineering and synthetic biology.
Industrial applications: Potential in biofuel production, enzyme synthesis, and biomanufacturing.
Medical research: Explored as a host for recombinant protein production and pharmaceutical development.
Marine and estuarine ecosystems, particularly in saltwater environments.
Found in coastal waters, sediments, and mangrove ecosystems.
Genus: Vibrio
Species: natriegens
Family: Vibrionaceae
Phylum: Proteobacteria
This bacterium renowned for its incredibly rapid growth, with a doubling time often under 10 minutes, making it a valuable organism for studying rapid cell division. Commonly grown in a modified LB broth with added sodium chloride to mimic its halophilic nature cultivated at around 37°C for optimal growth.its rapid growth and ability to utilize diverse carbon sources, researchers are exploring Vibrio natriegens as a potential host for metabolic engineering and high-yield production of various compounds.
