Life Under Extreme Conditions: Biochemical Adaptation
Description
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.
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.
Keywords
ADAPTATION (PHYSIOLOGY)EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
1808Book
Author(s)Federation of European Biochemical Societies
PublisherSpringer
ISBN9783540531081
LanguageEnglish
