Thermophilic Microbes in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Thermophiles in the Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Diversity of Hot Environments and Thermophilic Microbes

      • Deepika Mehta, Tulasi Satyanarayana

      Pages 3-60

   3. Exploring the Ecology of Thermophiles from Australia’s Great Artesian Basin During the Genomic Era

      • Christopher D. Ogg, Mark D. Spanevello, Bharat K. C. Patel

      Pages 61-97

   4. Hot Environments from Antarctica: Source of Thermophiles and Hyperthermophiles, with Potential Biotechnological Applications

      • Patricio A. Flores, Maximiliano J. Amenábar, Jenny M. Blamey

      Pages 99-118

   5. Bacterial and Biochemical Properties of Newly Invented Aerobic, High-Temperature Compost

      • Takahiro Yoshii, Toshiyuki Moriya, Tairo Oshima

      Pages 119-135

   6. Role of Thermophilic Microflora in Composting

      • Seema Rawat, Bhavdish Narain Johri

      Pages 137-169

   7. Metal Bioremediation by Thermophilic Microorganisms

      • Pinaki Sar, Sufia K. Kazy, Dhiraj Paul, Angana Sarkar

      Pages 171-201

   8. CO-Oxidizing Anaerobic Thermophilic Prokaryotes

      • T. Sokolova, A. Lebedinsky

      Pages 203-231

   9. Biomineralization in Geothermal Environments

      • Katsumi Doi, Yasuhiro Fujino

      Pages 233-247

   10. Phylogeny and Biological Features of Thermophiles

       • Takashi Itoh, Takao Iino

       Pages 249-270

   11. Biology, Biodiversity and Application of Thermophilic Viruses

       • Kristine Uldahl, Xu Peng

       Pages 271-304

3. Genomics, Metagenomics and Biotechnology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305

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   2. Genomics of Thermophilic Bacteria and Archaea

      • Takaaki Sato, Haruyuki Atomi

      Pages 307-330

   3. Comparative Genomics of Thermophilic Bacteria and Archaea

      • Satoshi Akanuma, Shin-ichi Yokobori, Akihiko Yamagishi

      Pages 331-349

   4. Host-Vector Systems in Thermophiles

      • Takahiro Inoue, Yoshihiko Sako

      Pages 351-373

   5. Molecular Chaperones in Thermophilic Eubacteria and Archaea

      • Muhamad Sahlan, Masafumi Yohda

      Pages 375-394

   6. Heterologous Production of Thermostable Proteins and Enzymes

      • Haruhiko Sakuraba, Toshihisa Ohshima

      Pages 395-412

   7. Discovery of Thermostable Enzymes from Hot Environmental Samples by Metagenomic Approaches

      • Norio Kurosawa

      Pages 413-427

   8. DNA Polymerases and DNA Ligases

      • Sonoko Ishino, Yoshizumi Ishino

      Pages 429-457

The existence of life at high temperatures is quiet fascinating. At elevated temperatures, only microorganisms are capable of growth and survival. Many thermophilic microbial genera have been isolated from man-made (washing machines, factory effluents, waste streams and acid mine effluents) and natural (volcanic areas, geothermal areas, terrestrial hot springs, submarine hydrothermal vents, geothermally heated oil reserves and oil wells, sun-heated litter and soils/sediments) thermal habitats throughout the world. Both culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches have been employed for understanding the diversity of microbes in hot environments. Interest in their diversity, ecology, and physiology has increased enormously during the past few decades as indicated by the deliberations in international conferences on extremophiles and thermophiles held every alternate year and papers published in journals such as Extremophiles. Thermophilic moulds and bacteria have been extensively studied in plant biomass bioconversion processes as sources of industrial enzymes and as gene donors. In the development of third generation biofuels such as bioethanol, thermophilic fungal and bacterial enzymes are of particular interest. The book is aimed at bringing together scattered up-to-date information on various aspects of thermophiles such as the diversity of thermophiles and viruses of thermophiles, their potential roles in pollution control and bioremediation, and composting.

• Comparative genomics
• Diversity of thermophiles
• Metagenomics
• Thermophilic microbes
• Thermostable enzymes
• Entomology

• , Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

  Tulasi Satyanarayana

• , School of Chemistry and Biological Scien, Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom

  Jennifer Littlechild

• , Functional Genomics of Extremophiles, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  Yutaka Kawarabayasi

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