TY  - BOOK
AU  - edited by Gerday, Charles
AU  - Glansdorff, Nicolas
TI  - Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles
SN  - 9781555814229
U1  - 579.1758 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Washington
PB  - ASM Press, 
KW  - Extreme environments -- Microbiology
KW  - Archaea -- physiology
KW  - Adaptation, Physiological
KW  - Bacterial Proteins -- physiology
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Environmental Microbiology
N1  - I Introduction
1. Extremophiles and the Origin of Life

II Thermophiles
2. Thermal Environments and Biodiversity
3. Functional Genomics in Thermophilic Microorganisms
4. How Nucleic Acids Cope with High Temperature
5. How Thermophiles Cope with Thermolabile Metabolites
6. Temperature-Dependent Molecular Adaptation Features in Proteins
7. The Physiological Role, Biosynthesis and Mode of Action of Compatible Solutes from (Hyper)thermophiles
8. Membrane Adaptations of (Hyper)thermophiles to High Temperatures

III Psychrophiles
9. Ecology and Biodiversity of Cold-Adapted Microorganisms
10. Life in Ice Formations at Very Cold Temperatures
11. Lake Vostok and Subglacial Lakes of Antarctica: Do They Host Life?
12. Psychrophiles: Membrane Adaptations
13. Cold-Adapted Enzymes
14. The Cold-Shock Response
15. Perception and Transduction of Low Temperature in Bacteria
16. An Interplay Between Metabolic and Physico-Chemical Constraints: Lessons from the Psychrophilic Prokaryote Genomes

IV Halophiles
17. Biodiversity in Highly Saline Environments
18. Response to Osmotic Stress in a Haloarchaeal Genome: A Role for General Stress Proteins and Global Regulatory Mechanisms
19. Molecular Adaptation to High Salt

V Acidophiles
20. Physiology and Ecology of Acidophilic Microorganisms
21. Acidophiles: Mechanisms to Tolerate Metal and Acid Toxicity
22. Genomics of Acidophiles

VI Alkaliphiles
23. Environmental and Taxonomic Biodiversities of Gram-Positive Alkaliphiles
24. Bioenergetic Adaptations that Support Alkaliphily

VII Piezophiles
25. Microbial Adaptation to High Pressure

VIII Exobiology
26. Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe

IX Biotechnology
27. Extremophiles, a Unique Resource of Biocatalysts for Industrial 
Biotechnology

XLessons from Extremophiles
28. Lessons from Extremophiles: Early Evolution and Border Conditions of Life

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