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Main description:

A detailed overview of the current state of knowledge about this special group of organisms.

Identifies extremophiles, explores their unique ecologies, explains their physiologies, and discusses biotechnological applications.
Describes the environments where these organisms reside and sheds light, at the molecular level, on the mechanisms that enable these unique organisms to survive.
Covers all known types of extremophiles (including thermophiles, psychrophiles, halophiles, acidophiles, piezophiles, and alkaliphiles).
Serves as an essential volume for a variety of scientists, including microbiologists, biochemists, physiologists, biotechnology specialists, ecologists, and physical scientists such as chemists and astronomers.

This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.


Contents:

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Extremophiles and the Origin of Life
Sara Islas, Ana Maria Velasco, Arturo Becerra, Luis Delaye, and Antonio Lazcano

Thermophiles

2. Thermal Environments and Biodiversity
Elizabeth A. Burgess, Isaac D. Wagner, and Jurgen Wiegel

3. Functional Genomics in Thermophilic Microorganisms
Frank T. Robb and Deborah T. Newby

4. How Nucleic Acids Cope with High Temperature
Henri Grosjean and Tairo Oshima

5. How Thermophiles Cope with Thermolabile Metabolites
Jan Massant

6. Temperature-Dependent Molecular Adaptation Features in Proteins
Sandeep Kumar, Sunil Arya, and Ruth Nussinov

7. The Physiological Role, Biosynthesis, and Mode of Action of Compatible Solutes from (Hyper)thermophiles
Helena Santos, Pedro Lamosa, Tiago Q. Faria, Nuno Borges, and Clelia Neves

8. Membrane Adaptations of Hyperthermophiles to High Temperatures
Arnold J. M. Driessen and Sonja V. Albers

Psychrophiles

9. Ecology and Biodiversity of Cold-Adapted Microorganisms
Don A. Cowan, Ana Casanueva, and William Stafford

10. Life in Ice Formations at Very Cold Temperatures
Jody W. Deming

11. Lake Vostok and Subglacial Lakes of Antarctica: Do They Host Life?
Guido di Prisco

12. Psychrophiles: Membrane Adaptations
Nicholas J. Russell

13. Cold-Adapted Enzymes
Tony Collins, Salvino D'Amico, Jean-Claude Marx, Georges Feller, and Charles Gerday

14. The Cold-Shock Response
Masayori Inouye and Sangita Phadtare

15. Perception and Transduction of Low Temperature in Bacteria
S. Shivaji, M. D. Kiran, and S. Chintalapati

16. An Interplay between Metabolic and Physico-chemical Constraints: Lessons from the Psychrophilic Prokaryote Genomes
Antoine Danchin

Halophiles

17. Biodiversity in Highly Saline Environments
Aharon Oren

18. Response to Osmotic Stress in a Haloarchaeal Genome: a Role for General Stress Proteins and Global Regulatory Mechanisms
Guadalupe Juez, David Fenosa, Aitor Gonzaga, Elena Soria, and Francisco J. M. Mojica

19. Molecular Adaptation to High Salt
Frederic Vellieux, Dominique Madern, Giuseppe Zaccai, and Christine Ebel

Acidophiles

20. Physiology and Ecology of Acidophilic Microorganisms
D. Barrie Johnson

21. Acidophiles: Mechanisms To Tolerate Metal and Acid Toxicity
Sylvia Franke and Christopher Rensing

22. Genomics of Acidophiles
A. Angelov and W. Liebl

Alkaliphiles

23. Environmental and Taxonomic Biodiversities of Gram-Positive Alkaliphiles
Isao Yumoto

24. Bioenergetic Adaptations That Support Alkaliphily
Terry Ann Krulwich, David B. Hicks, Talia Swartz, and Masahiro Ito

Piezophiles

25. Microbial Adaptation to High Pressure
Douglas H. Bartlett, Federico M. Lauro, and Emiley A. Eloe

Exobiology

26. Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe
Giles M. Marion and Dirk Schulze-Makuch

Biotechnology

27. Extremophiles, a Unique Resource of Biocatalysts for Industrial Biotechnology
Garabed Antranikian and Ksenia Egorova

Lessons from Extremophiles

28. Lessons from Extremophiles: Early Evolution and Border Conditions of Life
Ying Xu and Nicolas Glansdorff


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9781555814229
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Publication date: April, 2007
Pages: 472
Weight: 1276g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Biochemistry

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