TABLE 5.

Intracellular ionic concentrations of moderately halophilic bacteria

Species	Medium concn of:			Intracellular concn of:			Refer- ence
	Na	K	Cl	Na	K	Cl
Halomonas elongata	0.06	0.02		0.04	0.002		359
	1.38	0.02		0.31	0.02
	3.4	0.01		0.63	0.02
Halomonas canadensis	0.6	0.04		0.05	0.34		193
	4.4	0.04		0.62	0.58
Stationary	4.4	0.04		1.01	0.66
Halomonas israelensis	2.0			1.14			97
Halomonas halodenitrificans
Exponential	1.0	0.04	1.0	0.31	0.47	0.055	31
Stationary	1.0		1.0	0.51	1.01
Exponential	3.0		3.0	1.07	0.12
	1.0			0.11	0.30		298
	3.0			0.13	0.33
“Pseudomonas halosaccharolytica”	1.0	0.006	1.0	0.90	0.71	0.71	192
	2.0	0.006	2.0	1.15	0.89	0.98
	3.0	0.006	3.0	1.04	0.67	0.70
Salinivibrio costicola	1.0	0.004		0.68	0.22		31
	0.6	0.008		0.51	0.52		308
	1.0	0.008		0.58	0.66
	1.6	0.008		1.09	0.59
	2.0	0.008		0.90	0.57
	0.6			0.65	0.72		351
	2.0			1.29	0.55		308, 359
(molal)	1.0	0.009		0.89	0.82		308
Defined medium	2.0	0.009		1.29	0.55
Complex medium	3.0	0.009		1.78	0.37
Stationary	1.0	0.04	1.0	0.68	0.22	0.14
“Micrococcus varians subsp. halophilus”	1.0			1.17	0.03		28
	4.0			2.11	0.03
Exponential	3.0	0.012		2.88	0.21		146
Bacillus haloalkaliphilus (molal)	3.4			3.52	0.31	2.7	361