The synthesis and role of hydroxyectoine in halophilic bacterium Halomonas ventosae DL7

Daochen Zhu^1,2*, Chenxiang Wang³, Shoko Hosoi-Tanabe⁴, Weimin Zhang² and Shinichi Nagata⁴

¹School of Environmental Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road Zhenjiang 212013, China.

²Guangdong Provincial Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Provincial, Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China.

³Environmental Science and Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, 1 Linghai Road, Dalian 116026, China.

⁴Environmental Biochemistry Division, Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe University, 5-1-1 Fukae, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0022, Japan.