Extremophiles sustainable resources and biotechnological implications
Explores the utility and potential of extremophiles in sustainability and biotechnology Many extremophilic bio-products are already used as life-saving drugs. Until recently, however, the difficulty of working with these microbes has discouraged efforts to develop extremophilic microbes as potenti...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley-Blackwell
c2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009665123706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- EXTREMOPHILES; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF EXTREMOPHILES; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Molecular Evolution of Thermophiles; 1.2.1 Habitat; 1.2.2 Cellular Organization; 1.2.3 Genome; 1.2.4 Proteome; 1.3 Molecular Evolution of Psychrophiles; 1.3.1 Habitat; 1.3.2 Cellular Organization; 1.3.3 Genome; 1.3.4 Proteome; 1.4 Molecular Evolution of Halophiles; 1.4.1 Habitat; 1.4.2 Cellular Organization; 1.4.3 Genome; 1.4.4 Proteome; 1.5 Molecular Evolution of Alkaliphiles; 1.5.1 Habitat; 1.5.2 Cellular Organization; 1.5.3 Genome; 1.5.4 Proteome
- 1.6 Molecular Evolution of Acidophiles1.6.1 Habitat; 1.6.2 Cellular Organization; 1.6.3 Genome; 1.6.4 Proteome; 1.7 Molecular Evolution of Barophiles; 1.7.1 Habitat; 1.7.2 Cellular Organization; 1.7.3 Genome; 1.7.4 Proteome; 1.8 Engineering Extremophiles; 1.8.1 Microbiology; 1.8.2 Molecular Biology; 1.8.3 Bioinformatics; 1.9 Case Studies; 1.9.1 Biofuel Production; 1.9.2 Bioremediation; 1.9.3 Pesticide Biodegradation; 1.9.4 Escherichia coli: A Candidate Extremophile; 1.9.5 Oil-Spill-Cleaning Bacteria; 1.9.6 Potential Applications and Benefits
- 1.10 Implications of Engineered Extremophiles on Ecology, Environment, and Health1.11 Conclusions and Recommendations; References; 2 ATTAINING EXTREMOPHILES AND EXTREMOLYTES: METHODOLOGIES AND LIMITATIONS; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Extremophiles: Types and Diversity; 2.2.1 Thermophiles; 2.2.2 Psychrophiles; 2.2.3 Halophiles; 2.2.4 Alkaliphiles; 2.2.5 Acidophiles; 2.2.6 Barophiles; 2.3 Extremolytes; 2.3.1 Production and Purification of Extremolytes; 2.3.2 Detection, Identification, and Quantification of Extremolytes; 2.3.3 Limitations; 2.4 Conclusions; References
- 3 STRATEGIES FOR THE ISOLATION AND CULTIVATION OF HALOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Thalassohaline and Athalassohaline Hypersaline Environments; 3.3 Case Studies; 3.3.1 Isolation of Aerobic Chemoheterotrophic Archaea from Solar Salterns; 3.3.2 Magnesium-Requiring and Magnesium-Tolerant Archaea from the Dead Sea; 3.3.3 Isolation of Acidophilic Halophilic Archaea; 3.3.4 Isolation of Unusual Anaerobic Halophiles from Deep-Sea Brines; 3.3.5 Isolation of Polyextremophilic Anaerobic Halophiles; 3.3.6 Isolation of Halophilic Microorganisms Associated with Plants and Animals
- 3.3.7 Isolation of Halophilic Archaea from Low-Salt Environments3.4 The Upper Salinity Limits of Different Types of Energy Generation; 3.5 Final Comments; References; 4 HALOPHILIC PROPERTIES AND THEIR MANIPULATION AND APPLICATION; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Industrial Applications of Halophilic Organisms and Their Proteins; 4.3 Extreme and Moderate Halophiles and Their Proteins; 4.4 Generation of Low-Salt Stable Extreme-Halophilic Proteins; 4.5 Interconversion of Halophilic and Nonhalophilic Proteins; 4.5.1 Dimer-Tetramer Conversion of HaNDK and PaNDK; 4.5.2 Generation of Halophilic PaNDK
- 4.6 Soluble Expression of Recombinant Proteins
