Physiological and Biotechnological Aspects of Extremophiles

ISBN-13: 9780128183229 / Angielski

Richa Salwan; Vivek Sharma

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Preface & Intro & Acknowledgements
Richa Salwan
Physiological aspects
1. Overview of extremophiles
Richa Salwan and Vivek Sharma
2. Physiology of Extremophiles
Richa Salwan and Vivek Sharma
3. Mechanism of resistance focusing on copper, mercury and arsenic in extremophilic organisms, how acidophiles and thermophiles cope with these metals
Javiera Alejrandra Norambuena
4. Halotolerant microbes and their applications in sustainable agriculture
Suprasanna Penna, Jayant Kulkarni, Sandeep Sharma and Ashish Kumar Srivastava
5. Halophilic microorganisms: interesting group of extremophiles with important applications in biotechnology and environment
Lobna Daoud and Mamdouh Ben Ali
6. Overview of extremophiles and their food and medical applications
Jane Ann Irwin
7. Applications of extremophiles in Astrobiology
Rebecca S. Thombre, Parag A. Vaishampayan and Felipe Gomez
8. High-pressureAdaptation ofExtremophiles and Biotechnological Applications
Philippe Oger, Judith Peters and Marta Salvador-Castell
9. Fructanogenic Halophiles: A new Perspective on Extremophiles
Ebru Toksoy Oner, Gülbahar Abaramak and Onur Kirtel
10. Applications of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria
Kavita Rana, Neerja Rana and Birbal Singh
11. Physiological and genomic perspective of extremophiles in high salt concentrations
Preeti Mehta, Ashish Verma and Sachin Kumar Biotechnological aspects
12. Genome editing in extremophiles using CRISPR/Cas9 technology
Vivek Sharma and Richa Salwan
13. Lipases/esterases from extremophiles: main features and potential biotechnological applications
Luigi Mandrich and Valentina De Luca
14. Thermostable ThermoanaerobacterAlcohol Dehydrogenases And Their Use In Organic Synthesis
Sean Michael Scully and Johann Orlygsson Sr.
15. Biotechnological platforms of the moderate thermophiles, Geobacillus species: notable properties and genetic tools
Hirokazu Suzuki and Keisuke Wada
16. Thermophiles and Thermophilic Hydrolases
Shilpi Ghosh and Khusboo Lepcha
17. Effects of single nucleotide mutations in the genomes of multi-drug resistant 19biofilm producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Babu Ramanathan, Sanjay Gunabalan and Chew Jactty
18. Understanding the structural basis of adaptation in enzymes from psychrophiles
Mahejibin Khan
19. Molecular and functional characterization of major compatible solute in Deep Sea halophilic actinobacteria of active volcanic Barren Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Balakrishnan Meena, Lawrance Anburajan and Ramalingam Kirubagaran
20. Antarctic microorganisms as a source of biotechnological products
Fernanda Abreu and Tarcisio Correa
21. The Secretomes of Extremophiles
Mazen Saleh and Eyad Kinkar
22. Carbonic anhydrase from extremophiles and their potential use in biotechnological applications
Clemente Capasso and Claudiu Supuran
23. Understanding the Protein Sequence and Structural Adaptation in Extremophilic Organisms through Machine Learning Techniques
Abhigyan Nath
24. Exploration of extremophiles genomes through metagenomics for hidden Biotechnological and future potential
Pijush Basak, Arpita Biswas and Maitree Bhattacharyya
25. The Ecophysiology, Genetics, Adaptive Significance, and Biotechnology of Nickel Hyperaccumulation in Plants
Anthony Logan Ferrero, Peter R. Walsh and Nishanta Rajakaruna