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Life Under Extreme Conditions

Biochemical Adaptation

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Guido Prisco

    1. Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology (IBPE), Italian National Research Council, Naples, Italy

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Table of contents (8 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. The Role of Antifreeze Glycopeptides and Peptides in the Freezing Avoidance of Cold-Water Fish

    • C. C. Cheng, A. L. DeVries
    Pages 1-14

  3. An Overview of the Molecular Structure and Functional Properties of the Hemoglobins of a Cold-Adapted Antarctic Teleost

    • R. D’Avino, C. Caruso, L. Camardella, M. E. Schininà, B. Rutigliano, M. Romano et al.
    Pages 15-33

  4. Cold-Stable Microtubules from Antarctic Fish

    • H. W. Detrich III
    Pages 35-49

  5. Life in Arctic Environments: Molecular Adaptation of Oxygen-Carrying Proteins

    • B. Giardina, S. G. Condò, A. Bardgard, O. Brix
    Pages 51-60

  6. Archaebacteria: Lipids, Membrane Structures, and Adaptation to Environmental Stresses

    • M. De Rosa, A. Trincone, B. Nicolaus, A. Gambacorta
    Pages 61-87

  7. How Nature Engineers Protein (Thermo) Stability

    • A. Fontana
    Pages 89-113

  8. Enzymes from Extreme Thermophilic Bacteria as Special Catalysts: Studies on a β-Galactosidase from Sulfolobus solfataricus

    • M. Rossi, M. V. Cubellis, R. Rella, F. Pisani, M. Moracci, R. Nucci et al.
    Pages 115-123

  9. A Model for the Stabilization of a Halophilic Protein

    • G. Zaccai, H. Eisenberg
    Pages 125-137

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 139-144
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About this book

In their very first lecture biochemists learn that biomolecules, namely nucleic acids, proteins and lipids, are extremely temperature sensitive and will denature and lose their function easily. Then how do Archaebacteria survive in hot springs or Antarctic fishes which live in ice-cold water? The way nature engineered subcellular structures, lipid membranes or proteins to meet the biochemical requirements of extreme conditions - like extreme temperature or salt concentrations - is described in Life Under Extreme Conditions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology (IBPE), Italian National Research Council, Naples, Italy

    Guido Prisco

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Life Under Extreme Conditions

  • Book Subtitle: Biochemical Adaptation

  • Editors: Guido Prisco

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76056-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-76058-7Published: 08 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-76056-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 144

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Biochemistry, general, Cell Biology, Ecology

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