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Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles/ edited by Charles Gerday and Nicolas Glansdorff.

Contributor(s): edited by Gerday, Charles | Glansdorff, NicolasMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington: ASM Press, 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 429 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN: 9781555814229Subject(s): Extreme environments -- Microbiology | Archaea -- physiology | Adaptation, Physiological | Bacterial Proteins -- physiology | Biodiversity | Environmental MicrobiologyDDC classification: 579.1758

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books Science Library	Science Library, Sikkim University Science Library General Section	579.1758 GER/P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Books For SU Science Library		P04955

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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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