Tulasi Satyanarayana • Jennifer Littlechild
Yutaka Kawarabayasi
Editors

2013

Biotechnology of Thermophiles

It is now very well known that microbial life can thrive in the upper as well as lower temperature limits that are known to be compatible with life. Temperature provides a series of challenges, from structural devastation due to ice crystal formation at one extreme to the denaturation of biomolecules and cell components at the other.