Cargando…
Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles /
Written by experts around the globe, this volume identifies extremophiles, explores their unique ecologies, explains their physiologies, and discusses biotechnological applications.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Washington, D.C. :
ASM Press,
©2007.
|
| Colección: | Monograph, ASM Press.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Extremophiles and the origin of life / Sara Islas [and others]
- Thermal environments and biodiversity / Elizabeth A. Burgess, Isaac D. Wagner, and Juergen Wiegel
- Functional genomics in thermophilic microorganisms / Frank T. Robb and Deborah T. Newby
- How nucleic acids cope with high temperature / Henri Grosjean and Tairo Oshima
- How thermophiles cope with thermolabile metabolites / Jan Massant
- Temperature-dependent molecular adaptation features in proteins / Sandeep Kumar, Sunil Arya, and Ruth Nussinov
- The physiological role, biosynthesis and mode of action of compatible solutes from (hyper)thermophiles / Helena Santos [and others]
- Membrane adaptations of (hyper)thermophiles to high temperatures / Arnold J.M. Driessen and Sonja V. Albers
- Ecology and biodiversity of cold-adapted microorganisms / Don A. Cowan, Ana Casanueva, and William Stafford
- Life in ice formations at very cold temperatures / Jody W. Deming
- Lake Vostok and subglacial lakes of Antarctica: do they host life? Guido di Prisco
- Psychrophiles: membrane adaptations / Nicholas J. Russell
- Cold-adapted enzymes / Tony Collins [and others]
- The cold-shock response / Masayori Inouye and Sangita Phadtare
- Perception and transduction of low temperature in bacteria / S. Shivaji, M.D. Kiran, and S. Chintalapati
- An interplay between metabolic and physicochemical constraints: lessons from the psychrophilic prokaryote genomes / Antoine Danchin
- Biodiversity in highly saline environments / Aharon Oren
- Response to osmotic stress in a haloarchaeal genome: a role for general stress proteins and global regulatory mechanisms / Guadalupe Juez [and others]
- Molecular adaptation to high salt / Frederic Vellieux [and others]
- Physiology and ecology of acidophilic microorganisms / D. Barrie Johnson
- Acidophiles: mechanisms to tolerate metal and acid toxicity / Sylvia Franke and Christopher Rensing
- Genomics of acidophiles / A. Angelov and W. Liebl
- Environmental and taxonomic biodiversities of gram-positive alkaliphiles / Isao Yumoto
- Bioenergetic adaptations that support alkaliphily / Terry Ann Krulwich [and others]
- Microbial adaptation to high pressure / Douglas H. Bartlett, Federico M. Lauro, and Emiley A. Eloe
- Astrobiology and the search for life in the universe / Giles M. Marion and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Extremophiles, a unique resource of biocatalysts for industrial biotechnology / Garabed Antranikian and Ksenia Egorova
- Lessons from extremophiles: early evolution and border conditions of life / Ying Xu and Nicolas Glansdorff.