Life at low temperatures: Is disorder the driving force?

Extremophiles

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 211-216

  Feller, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Entropy; Ligand binding; Proteins; Psychrophiles; Stability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; COLD; ENTROPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLD; ENTROPY; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33847311388     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-006-0050-1     Document Type: Review

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