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This book describes the most hostile habitats of our environment and their most hardened inhabitants. The survival strategies which these so-called extremophiles have developed are analyzed in a way accessible to the lay reader but still in touch with the latest research news, including for instance, research on heat-shock proteins and genome sequencing. Michael Gross describes the significance of extremophiles and extreme conditions for biotechnology, medicine, and research into the origin and early evolution of life. Finally, the book takes us into space to explore the possibility of life on other planets including Mars, and the search for habitable planets in other solar systems.

Table of Contents:
Of Extremists and Eccentrics: A Personal Preface Introduction: Life and Its Limits Things One Needs for a Living What Do We Mean by "Normal" after All? The Limits of Life on Earth Extreme Environments and Their Inhabitants Profile: Thomas Brock and the Discovery of the Hyperthermophiles Some Like It Hot: Life around Geysers and Volcanoes Stay Cool: Life at Subzero Temperatures Sidelines: Of Polar Bears and Penguins - Vertebrate Life at the Poles Living under Pressure: The Deep Sea Sidelines: On Diving A Light in the Dark: Luminescent Creatures of the Deep Sea Travel to the Center of the Earth: The Deep Subsurface as a Biotope Extra Dry: Survival in the Desert Saturated with Salt: The (Allegedly) Dead Sea as a Biotope Acid Heads and Basic Needs: Life at Extreme pH Nature's Eco-Brigade: Oil-Degrading Bacteria The Cell's Survival Kit The Heat Shock Response Sidelines: How to Hunt for Stress Proteins Heat Shock Proteins Acting as Molecular Chaperones Antifreeze and Cold Shock Proteins Focus: Structure and Function of the Heat Shock Protein GroEL Adaptations by Changes of Amino Acid Sequences Chemical Adaptations: Small Molecules Some New Tricks from the Cell's Repair Workshop Focus: The Growing Family of Photolyase Enzymes Sidelines: How Hot Love Helps Archaebacteria to Survive Waiting for Better Times: Sporulation as a Survival Strategy Focus: The Case of the Missing Alanine - a Biochemical Detective Story Two's Company: Symbiosis Helps Species to Spread in Hostile Environments Relevance of Extremes for Biotechnology and Medicine An Extremely Short History of Biotechnology Hyperthermophilic Enzymes Profile: Kary Mullis and the Polymerase Chain Reaction Preservation by Freezing and Freeze-Drying Profile: Pierre Douzou and the Invention of Cryoenzymology High-Pressure Biotechnology Bacteriorhodopsin as an Optoelectronic Component Extremophiles and Disease: Acid-Resistant Bacteria in the Stomach Medical Applications of Heat Shock Proteins {


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780306457869
  • Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
  • Publisher Imprint: Perseus Books
  • Height: 236 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0306457865
  • Publisher Date: 21 Mar 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Amazing Creatures Thriving in Extreme Environments


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