xii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBNs
9783540659921, 3540659927
OCLC
ocm45575438
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Liquid water at low temperature : clues for biology? / H. Eugene Stanley -- Ab initio theoretical study of water : extension to extreme conditions / Fumio Hirata and Hirofumi Sato -- The behavior of proteins under extreme conditions : physical concepts and experimental approaches / Karel Heremens and László Smeller -- High-pressure NMR spectroscopy of proteins / Lance Ballard and Jiri Jonas -- Pressure-induced secondary structure changes of proteins studied by FTIR spectrosocpy / Yoshihiro Taniguchi and Naohiro Takeda -- The small angle x-ray scattering from proteins under pressure / Tetsuro Fujisawa and Minoru Kato -- Accurate calculations of relative melting temperatures of mutant proteins by molecular dynamics/free energy perturbation methods / Minoru Saito -- Enzyme kinetics : stopped-flow under extreme conditions / Claude Balny -- Pressure effects on the intramolecular electron transfer reactions in hemoproteins / Yoshiaki Furukawa ... [et al.] -- Marine microbiology : deep sea adaptations / Chiaki Kata ... [et al.] -- Submarine hydrothermal vents as possible sites of the origin of life / Kensei Kobayashi and Hiroshi Yanagawa -- The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the survival of microorganisms / Horst Ludwig, Günter van Almsick, and Christian Schreck -- Dynamics of cell structure by pressure stress in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe / Masako Osumi, Mamiko Sato, and Shoji Shimada