Advances in High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology II

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Proteins and Macromolecules — Biophysical Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Pressure- and Temperature-induced Phenomena in Proteins

      • K. Heremans

      Pages 3-8

   3. High Pressure NMR Spectroscopy Characterizes Higher Energy Conformers of Proteins

      • Kazuyuki Akasaka

      Pages 9-14

   4. High Pressure Raman Spectroscopic and RISM Theoretical Studies of Conformational Equilibria of N-Acetyl-_L-Glycine-N’-Methylamide

      • T. Takekiyo, T. Imai, M. Kato, Y. Taniguchi

      Pages 15-18

   5. High Pressure as Tool to Study Structural Properties of Thiolate Heme Proteins

      • C. Jung, B. Canny, J. C. Chervin

      Pages 19-24

   6. Essential Differences between the Core and Peripheral Antenna Excitons in Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria Revealed by High-Pressure Spectroscopy

      • Arvi Freiberg, Aleksandr Ellervee, Ants Lõhmus, Rünno Lõhmus, Kõu Timpmann, Gediminas Trinkunas

      Pages 25-28

   7. Pressure-induced Unfolding of Myoglobin: Neutron Diffraction and Dynamic Scattering Experiments

      • W. Doster, R. Gebhardt, A. K. Soper

      Pages 29-32

   8. Pressure-induced Critical Association of Myoglobin

      • R. Gebhardt, W. Doster, J. Friedrich, W. Petry, A. Schulte

      Pages 33-36

   9. Fluorescence Spectroscopy of N-acetyl-L-tryptophan-amide and Proteins under High Pressure: Effects of Pressure, Temperature, and Organic Additives

      • M. Kato, T. Maki, R. Hayashi

      Pages 37-41

   10. Conformational Fluctuations of Hen Lysozyme Investigated by High Pressure NMR Spectroscopy

       • Yuji O. Kamatari, Tara N. Niraula, Hiroaki Yamada, Christopher M. Dobson, Lorna J. Smith, Shigeyuki Yokoyama et al.

       Pages 43-45

3. Protein Unfolding and Reactions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Pressure-driven Cold Denaturation of Proteins and Structure Formation of Water-soluble Polymers

      • Shigeru Kunugi, Naoki Tanaka

      Pages 49-54

   3. Exploring the Energy Landscape of Protein Unfolding under High Pressure

      • Reinhard Lange, Joan Torrent, Stéphane Marchal, Maria Vilanova, Paola Fusi, Claude Balny

      Pages 55-59

   4. Double-mutant Thermodynamic Cycles under High Hydrostatic Pressure

      • Patrick Masson

      Pages 61-68

   5. Pressure Unfolded States of Ribonuclease A under Native and Reducing Conditions have Identical Conformations

      • F. Meersman, K. Heremans

      Pages 69-72

   6. Hydrostatic Pressure Effects on the Stability of Ataxin-3

      • Stéphane Marchal, Erlet Shehi, Paola Fusi, Paolo Tortora, Reinhard Lange

      Pages 73-77

   7. Insulin and Polylysine as Model Polypeptides for FTIR Studies of the Pressure-effect on Protein Aggregation

      • Wojciech Dzwolak, Minoru Kato, Sylwester Porowski, Yoshihiro Taniguchi

      Pages 79-82

   8. Kinetic Behaviour of Sulfolobus Solfataricus Carboxypeptidase towards Several Substrates Highlights the Effects of Pressure and Temperature on Non-covalent Interactions

      • Paolo Tortora, Benedetta Gambirasio, Nicole Bec, Emanuela Occhipinti, Reinhard Lange

      Pages 83-86

   9. The Structural Basis for Functionality and Stability of Hydrophobic Core in RNase A as Probed by the Application of High Pressure

      • E. Chatani, T. Kadonosono, R. Hayashi

      Pages 87-93

At present, there is growing interest in high pressure bioscience and biotechnology. The activities are nearly equally distributed between fundamental research and applications. With original work on marine and terrestrial microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, deep-sea diving, food science and other industrial applications, this book covers the whole range of current high pressure bioscience. Advances in High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology will be welcomed by all industrial and academic researchers who are working in this field.

• Biomedical application
• Food Technology
• Microorganisms
• Pharmaceutical Technology
• Pressure Effects
• Protein Structure
• biomedical applications
• biotechnology
• high pressure

• Department of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry I, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  Roland Winter

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