Biological systems under extreme conditions
Subtitle: structure and function
By: Y. Taniguchi, H.E. Stanley, H. Ludwig, (eds.)
Contributors: Taniguchi, Yoshihiro, 1941-; Stanley, H. Eugene 1941-; Ludwig, Horst, 1937-
Series: Biological and medical physics series
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Extreme environments -- Microbiology; Proteins
Description: xii, 282 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Liquid water at low temperature : clues for biology? / H. Eugene Stanley; title: Ab initio theoretical study of water : extension to extreme conditions / Fumio Hirata and Hirofumi Sato; title: The behavior of proteins under extreme conditions : physical concepts and experimental approaches / Karel Heremens and László Smeller; title: High-pressure NMR spectroscopy of proteins / Lance Ballard and Jiri Jonas; title: Pressure-induced secondary structure changes of proteins studied by FTIR spectrosocpy / Yoshihiro Taniguchi and Naohiro Takeda; title: The small angle x-ray scattering from proteins under pressure / Tetsuro Fujisawa and Minoru Kato; title: Accurate calculations of relative melting temperatures of mutant proteins by molecular dynamics/free energy perturbation methods / Minoru Saito; title: Enzyme kinetics : stopped-flow under extreme conditions / Claude Balny; title: Pressure effects on the intramolecular electron transfer reactions in hemoproteins / Yoshiaki Furukawa ... [et al.]; title: Marine microbiology : deep sea adaptations / Chiaki Kata ... [et al.]; title: Submarine hydrothermal vents as possible sites of the origin of life / Kensei Kobayashi and Hiroshi Yanagawa; title: The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the survival of microorganisms / Horst Ludwig, Günter van Almsick, and Christian Schreck; title: Dynamics of cell structure by pressure stress in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe / Masako Osumi, Mamiko Sato, and Shoji Shimada