Life Under Extreme Conditions

How do living organisms manage to survive under extreme conditions, e.g. bacteria in hot springs or Antarctic fishes in ice-cold water? The underlying biochemical mechanisms are discussed here.

The Role of Antifreeze Glycopeptides and Peptides in the Freezing Avoidance of Cold-Water Fish.- An Overview of the Molecular Structure and Functional Properties of the Hemoglobins of a Cold-Adapted Antarctic Teleost.- Cold-Stable Microtubules from Antarctic Fish.- Life in Arctic Environments: Molecular Adaptation of Oxygen-Carrying Proteins.- Archaebacteria: Lipids, Membrane Structures, and Adaptation to Environmental Stresses.- How Nature Engineers Protein (Thermo)Stability.- Enzymes from Extreme Thermophilic Bacteria as Special Catalysts: Studies on a ?-Galactosidase from Sulfolobus solfataricus.- A Model for the Stabilization of a Halophilic Protein.