Physiology and Biochemistry of Extremophiles

Content: Extremophiles and the origin of life / Sara Islas [and others] --
Thermal environments and biodiversity / Elizabeth A. Burgess, Isaac D. Wagner, and Juergen Wiegel --
Functional genomics in thermophilic microorganisms / Frank T. Robb and Deborah T. Newby --
How nucleic acids cope with high temperature / Henri Grosjean and Tairo Oshima --
How thermophiles cope with thermolabile metabolites / Jan Massant --
Temperature-dependent molecular adaptation features in proteins / Sandeep Kumar, Sunil Arya, and Ruth Nussinov --
The physiological role, biosynthesis and mode of action of compatible solutes from (hyper)thermophiles / Helena Santos [and others] --
Membrane adaptations of (hyper)thermophiles to high temperatures / Arnold J.M. Driessen and Sonja V. Albers --
Ecology and biodiversity of cold-adapted microorganisms / Don A. Cowan, Ana Casanueva, and William Stafford --
Life in ice formations at very cold temperatures / Jody W. Deming --
Lake Vostok and subglacial lakes of Antarctica: do they host life? Guido di Prisco --
Psychrophiles: membrane adaptations / Nicholas J. Russell --
Cold-adapted enzymes / Tony Collins [and others] --
The cold-shock response / Masayori Inouye and Sangita Phadtare --
Perception and transduction of low temperature in bacteria / S. Shivaji, M.D. Kiran, and S. Chintalapati --
An interplay between metabolic and physicochemical constraints: lessons from the psychrophilic prokaryote genomes / Antoine Danchin --
Biodiversity in highly saline environments / Aharon Oren --
Response to osmotic stress in a haloarchaeal genome: a role for general stress proteins and global regulatory mechanisms / Guadalupe Juez [and others] --
Molecular adaptation to high salt / Frederic Vellieux [and others] --
Physiology and ecology of acidophilic microorganisms / D. Barrie Johnson --
Acidophiles: mechanisms to tolerate metal and acid toxicity / Sylvia Franke and Christopher Rensing --
Genomics of acidophiles / A. Angelov and W. Liebl --
Environmental and taxonomic biodiversities of gram-positive alkaliphiles / Isao Yumoto --
Bioenergetic adaptations that support alkaliphily / Terry Ann Krulwich [and others] --
Microbial adaptation to high pressure / Douglas H. Bartlett, Federico M. Lauro, and Emiley A. Eloe --
Astrobiology and the search for life in the universe / Giles M. Marion and Dirk Schulze-Makuch --
Extremophiles, a unique resource of biocatalysts for industrial biotechnology / Garabed Antranikian and Ksenia Egorova --
Lessons from extremophiles: early evolution and border conditions of life / Ying Xu and Nicolas Glansdorff.