Unusual organic osmolytes in deep-sea animals: Adaptations to hydrostatic pressure and other perturbants

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 667-676

  Yancey, Paul H ^a   Blake, Wendy R ^a   Conley, James ^a  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep sea; Hydrostatic pressure; Hypotaurine; Osmolyte; Teleost; Trimethylamine N oxide; Trimethylamine oxide; Vesicomyid; Vestimentifera; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA ALANINE; BETAINE; GLYCINE; HYPOTAURINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLAMINE; N METHYLTAURINE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHOSERINE; POLYOL; PYRUVATE KINASE; SCYLLOINOSITOL; SULFIDE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; THIOTAURINE; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DRUG DERIVATIVE; INOSITOL; SCYLLITOL; TAURINE; TRIMETHYLOXAMINE;

AQUATIC FAUNA; CELL COUNT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEEP SEA; DETOXIFICATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; INCUBATION TIME; LIGAND BINDING; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLYTE; PROTEIN STABILITY; YEAST CELL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CRUSTACEA; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEA;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CRUSTACEA; ECHINODERMATA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; OCTOPODA; POLYCHAETA; TELEOSTEI; VESTIMENTIFERA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CRUSTACEA; FISHES; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INOSITOL; METHYLAMINES; OCEANS AND SEAS; TAURINE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0036848921     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00182-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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