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Water and life : comparative analysis of water relationships at the organismic, cellular, and molecular levels

Title: Water and life : comparative analysis of water relationships at the organismic, cellular, and molecular levels / G.N. Somero, C.B. Osmond, C.L. Bolis, (eds.).
Publication: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1992.

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ix, 371 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Presenting an analysis of the water relationships of the major groups of organisms: fungi, plants and animals, the text examines water stress at all levels of biological organization. Topics covered include: 1) organic osmotic agents: their distributions, modes of action, and mechanisms of regulation; 2) desiccation stress; mechanisms for preserving cellu lar integrity under conditions of low cellular water activity; 3) water stress and water compartmentation in plants; and 4) freezing stress: the prevention and regulation of ice formation in biological fluids, and mechanisms for overcoming the damaging effects of low temperatures on cellular integrity. Common adaptive strategies in diverse organisms are emphasized, as well as the fundamental physical-chemical properties of aqueous solutions that establish the nature of the interactions among water, low molecular weight solutes and macromolecules."--Pub. desc.

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Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Note

Papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Comparative Physiology, Sept. 15-17, 1990, Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Adapting to water stress: Convergence on common solutions -- Compatible and counteracting aspects of organic osmolytes in mammalian kidney cells in vivo and in vitro -- Molecular basis for accumulation of compatible osmolytes in mammalian cells -- Compatible solute synthesis and compartmentation in higher plants -- Osmotic control of transcription of the pro U operon of Salmonella typhimurium -- A physicochemical basis for the selection of osmolytes by nature -- Membrane integrity in anhydrobiotic organisms: Toward a mechanism for stabilizing dry cells -- Water content and metabolic organization in anhydrobiotic animals -- Macroautophagy triggered by sucrose starvation in higher plant cells: Analysis of a model for prolonged carbon deprivation under water stress -- Desiccation tolerance in vegetative plant tissues and seeds: Protein synthesis in relation to desiccation and a potential role for protection and repair mechanisms -- Water in dry organisms -- The biophysics of plant water: Compartmentation, coupling with metabolic processes, and flow of water in plant roots -- Water compartmentation in plant tissue: Isotopic evidence -- Photosynthetic water oxidation and water stress in plants -- Desiccation and freezing phenomena for plants with large water capacitance -- Cacti and espeletias -- Ice nucleating agents in cold-hardy insects -- Hemolymph proteins involved in the cold tolerance of terrestrial arthropods: Antifreeze and ice nucleator proteins -- The role of antifreeze glycopeptides and peptides in the survival of cold-water fishes -- Freeze-thaw injury and cryoprotection of thylakoid membranes -- Freeze-induced dehydration and membrane destabilization in plants.

ISBN

3540541128
9783540541127
0387541128
9780387541129

LCCN

91027493

OCLC

ocm24219073
24219073
SCSB-14397104

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Princeton University Library