Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 281 mm, Gewicht: 1238 g
Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 281 mm, Gewicht: 1238 g
ISBN: 978-1-55581-422-9
Verlag: ASM Press
A detailed overview of the current state of knowledge about this special group of organisms.
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- 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.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Extremophiles and the Origin of Life
Sara Islas, Ana María Velasco, Arturo Becerra, Luis Delaye, and Antonio Lazcano
Thermophiles
2. Thermal Environments and Biodiversity
Elizabeth A. Burgess, Isaac D. Wagner, and Jürgen 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 Clélia 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
Frédéric 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
