Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 429 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:Monograph, ASM Press
Monograph, ASM Press.
Subject:Extreme environments -- Microbiology.
Archaea -- physiology.
Adaptation, Physiological.
Bacterial Proteins -- physiology.
Biodiversity.
Environmental Microbiology.
Milieux extrêmes -- Microbiologie.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology.
Extreme environments -- Microbiology.
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Archaebakterien
Biochemie
Extremophile Bakterien
Physiologie
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11220152
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Varying Form of Title:Extremophiles
Other authors / contributors:Gerday, Charles, editor.
Glansdorff, Nicolas, editor.
ISBN:9781555815813
1555815812
1283034107
9781283034104
9786613034106
661303410X
9781555814229
1555814220
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Written by experts around the globe, this volume identifies extremophiles, explores their unique ecologies, explains their physiologies, and discusses biotechnological applications.
Other form:Print version: Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles. Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, ©2007 9781555814229
Standard no.:10.1128/9781555815813
Table of Contents:
  • 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.