Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, And Eukarya (Hardcover)

Foreword; J. Seckbach Introduction; N. Gunde-Cimerman, A. Oren, A. Plemenitas SECTION I. THE ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR DIVERSITY Microbial diversity of Great Salt Lake; B.K. Baxter, C.D. Litchfield, K. Sowers, J.D. Griffith, P.A. DasSarma; S. DasSarma Microbial communitites in the Dead Sea - past, present and future; A. Oren, I. Gavrieli, J. Gavrieli, M. Kohen, J. Lati, M. Aharoni Microscopic examination of microbial communitires along a salinity gradient in saltern evaporation poonds: a 'halophilic safari'; A. Oren The microbial diversity of a solar saltern on San Francisco Bay; C.D. Litchfield, M. Sikaroodi, P.M. Gillivet Diversity of microbial communities: the case of solar salterns; C. Pedros-Alio Isolation of viable haloarchaea from ancient salt deposits and application of fluorescent stains for in situ detection of halophiles in hypersaline environmental samples and model fluid inclusions; S. Leuko, A. Legat, S. Fendrihan, H. Wieland, C. Radax, C. Gruber, M. Pfaffenhuemer, G. Weidler, H. Stan-Lotter Hydrocarbon degredation under hypersaline conditions. Some facts, some experiments and many open questions; H. Patzelt The relevance of halophiles and other extremophiles to Martian and extraterrestrial environments; J. Seckbach Halophiles: a terrestrial analog for life in brines on Mars - Halophiles on Mars; R.L. Mancinelli SECTION II. ARCHAEA Comparative genomic survey of information transfer systems in two diverse extremely halophilic Archaea, Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1 and Haloarcula marismortui; B.R. Berquist, J. Soneja, S. DasSarma Walsby's square archaeon; it's hip to be square but even more hip to be culturable; H. Bolhuis Gene regulation and the initiation of translation inhalophilic Archaea; F. Pfeifer, P. Zimmermann, S. Scheuch, S. Sartorius-Neef Protein translation, targeting and translocation in Haloferax volcanii; J. Eichler, G. Ring, V. Irihimovitch, T. Lichi, I. Tozik, Z. Konrad Enzymes of halophilic Archaea. Recent findings on ureases and nucleoside diphosphate kinases; T. Mizuki, R. Usami, M. Kamo, M. Tanokura, M. Kamekura Osmoadaptation in methanogenci Archaea: recent insights from a genomic perspective; K. Pfluger, H. Wieland, V. Muller SECTION III. BACTERIA Salinibacter ruber: genomics and biogeography; J. Anton, A. Pena, M. Valens, F. Santos, F.-O. Glockner, M. Bauer, J. Dopazo, J. Herrero, R. Rossello-Mora, R. Amann What we can deduce about metabolism in the moderate halophile Chromohalobacter salexigens from its genomic sequence; L.N. Csonka, K. O'Connor, F. Larimer, P. Richardson, A. Lapidus, A.D. Ewing, B.W. Goodner, A. Oren K+ transport and its role for osmoregulation in a halophilic memberof the Bacteria domain: characterization of the K+ uptake systems from Halomonas elongate; H.-J. Kunte The chloride regulon of Halobacillus halophilus: a novel regulatory network for salt perception and signal transduction in bacteria; V. Muller, S.H. Saum Biosynthesis of the compatible solute mannosylglycerate from hyperthermophiles to mesophiles. Genes, enzymes and evolutionary perspectives; M.S. da Costa, N. Empadinhas Genes and enzymes of ectoine biosynthesis in the haloalkaliphilic obligate methanotroph 'Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z'; A.S. Reshetnikov, V.N. Khmelenina, I.I. Mustakhimov, Y.V. Ryzhmanova, Y.A. Trotsenko Halophilic Archaea and Bacteria as a source of extracellular hydrolytic enzymes; A. Ventosa, C. Sanchez-Porro, S. Martin, E.