Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

For many years, pressure was disregarded by biochemists. Today, there is a growing interest in pressure as a variable acting on biosystems. The activities that are currently of interest to scientists working in the field of High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology have been well presented in this volume, with topics ranging from physical biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology and food science to industrial application. The editors have been successful in promoting the possibility of applying pressure in specific biotechnological areas, not only for food processing but also for biotechnology in general. These proceedings present an up-to-date view of high pressure research and will contribute to future developments in this field.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART I: OVERVIEWS -- Chapter 1. Use of high pressure in bioscience and biotechnology -- Chapter 2. Future prospects in high pressure basic bioscience -- Chapter 3. Deep-sea microbial research and its aspect to high pressure biotechnology -- PART II: BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY -- Chapter 4. High pressure effects on the structure and mesophase behaviour of supramolecular lipid aggregates and model membrane systems -- Chapter 5. High pressure sensing and adaptation in the deep-sea bacterium bacterium Photobacterium species strain SS9 -- Chapter 6. Morphological effects of pressure stress on yeasts -- Chapter 7. Biological analogy between hydrostatic pressure and temperature -- Chapter 8. Vacuolar acidification under high hydrostatic pressure in Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Chapter 9. Gene expression under high pressure -- Chapter 10. Effects of hydrostatic pressure on photosynthetic activities in thylakiods -- Chapter 11. Effect of hydrostatic pressure on the proliferation and morphology of the mouse BALB/ c cells in culture -- Chapter 12. Influence of hydrostatic pressure on expression of heat shock protein 70 and matrix synthesis in chondrocytes -- Chapter 13. Changes of microfilaments and microtubules of yeasts induced by pressure stress -- Chapter 14. Direct induction of homozygous diploidization in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe by pressure stress -- Chapter 15. Acquisition of stress tolerance by pressure shock treatment in yeast -- Chapter 16. High pressure denatured metalloprotein is a new NO-trapper -- Chapter 17. Ultrastructural effects of pressure stress to Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell revealed by immunoelectron microscopy using frozen thin sectioning -- Chapter 18. Biological stimulation of low-power He-Ne laser on yeast under high pressure -- PART III: HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS ON BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES -- 1. Proteins -- Chapter 19. Pressure -- induced molten globule states of proteins -- Chapter 20. Pressure versus temperature behaviour of proteins: FT-IR studies with the diamond anvil cell -- Chapter 21. Pressure induced protein structural changes as sensed by 4th derivative UV spectroscopy -- Chapter 22. High pressure NMR study of protein unfolding -- Chapter 23. Compressibility-structure relationships of protein : Compactness of denatured ribonuclease A -- Chapter 24. Structure of pressure-induced "denatured" state of proteins -- Chapter 25. Finite element study of protein structure under high pressure -- Chapter 26. Pressure-induced dissociation of beef liver L-glutamate dehydrogenase -- Chapter 27. Mechanism of pressure denaturation of BPTI -- Chapter 28. Thermal inactivating behavior of Bacillus stearothermophilus under high pressure -- 2. Others -- Chapter 29. Effect of pressure on the phase behaviour of ester- and ether-linked phospholipid bilayer membranes -- Chapter 30. Kinetics and mechanisms of lamellar and non-lamellar phase transitions in aqueous lipid dispersions -- Chapter 31. Similar characteristics of bacterial death caused by high temperature and high pressure: Involvement of the membrane fluidity -- Chapter 32. Structure and function of nucleic acids und.

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