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Psychrophiles: Distribution, Ecology, Physiology, Metabolism, Cold Adapted Enzymes, and Proteins
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Author(s): Shreyas Anantray Bhatt (Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, India)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 29
Source title:
Physiology, Genomics, and Biotechnological Applications of Extremophiles
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Aparna B. Gunjal (Dr. D.Y. Patil Arts, Commerce, and Science College, Pune, India), Rebecca Thombre (The University of Kent, UK & Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, USA)and Javid A. Parray (Department of Higher Education, Government Degree College, Srinagar, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9144-4.ch005
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Abstract
Life on the Earth has evolved in the cold environments. Such cold habitats pose special challenges to the microbes in cold ecosystems, such as minimum metabolic activities, very limited nutrient availability, and often extreme conditions such as pH and salinity apart from temperature. Microbial communities surviving under these extreme conditions must have evolved complex structural and functional adaptations. Prokaryotic adaptations to cold environments are through physiological adaptations by increasing membrane fluidity through large amount of unsaturated fatty acids. These microbes also possess some cold adapted proteins whose steady state levels are maintained. They also produce certain compounds such as polyamines, sugars, polyols, amino acids, and some antifreeze proteins to protect themselves under freezing conditions. They also produce exopolymeric substances that promote adhesion of microbes to moist surfaces to induce biofilm formation which helps getting nutrients and protect the cells from harsh conditions. Antioxidants help destroying toxic reactive oxygen species.
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