FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE PRESENTS

THE SPECIAL ISSUE


ANTI-STRESS MECHANISMS IN ARCHAEA:
IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

MANAGING EDITORS

EVERLY CONWAY DE MACARIO AND ALBERTO J. L. MACARIO

  "The first molecular chaperone genes grpE, hsp70(dnaK), and hsp40(dnaJ) to be demonstrated by cloning and sequencing in an archaeal organism were those of the methanogen Methanosarcina mazeii, displayed here as E, K, and J. This archaeon develops three morphotypes: two are shown in the oval panel, packets (upper left) and single cells. The genes are active under normal, physiological conditions, and also respond to a variety of stressors represented by the orange zigzagging icon."

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Everly Conway de Macario

Oxygen: friend or foe? archaeal superoxide dismutases in the protection of intra- and extracellular oxidative stress
Raffaele Cannio, Gabriella Fiorentino, Alessandra Morana, Mosè Rossi and Simonetta Bartolucci

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, d768-779, September 1, 2000]

Stressors, stress, and survival: overview
Everly Conway de Macario, and Alberto J. L. Macario

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, d780-786, September 1, 2000]

Protein stability in extremophilic archaea
Roberto Scandurra, Valerio Consalvi, Roberta Chiaraluce, Laura Politi, Paul C. Engel

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, d787-795, September 1, 2000]

Osmoadaptation and osmoregulation in archaea
Mary F. Roberts

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, d796-812, September 1, 2000]

Adaptations of the archaeal cell membrane to heat stress
Sonja-Verena Albers, Jack L.C.M. van de Vossenberg, Arnold J.M. Driessen and Wil N. Konings

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, 813-820, September 1, 2000]

Archaeal peptidyl prolyl cis-trans isomerases (PPIases)
Tadashi Maruyama and Masahiro Furutani

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, d821-836, September 1, 2000]

Proteasomes in the archaea: from structure to function
Julie A. Maupin-Furlow, Heather L. Wilson, Steven J. Kaczowka, and Mark S. Ou

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, d837-865, September 1, 2000]

The molecular chaperone system and other anti-stress mechanisms in Archaea
Alberto J. L. Macario, and Everly Conway de Macario

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d262-283, February 1, 2001]

Evolution of assisted protein folding: the distribution of the main chaperoning systems within the phylogenetic domain archaea
Alberto J. L. Macario, Mona Malz, and Everly Conway de Macario

[Frontiers in Bioscience 9, 1318-1332, May 1, 2004]

Archaeal peptidyl prolyl cis-trans isomerases (PPIases) update 2004
Tadashi Maruyama, Rintaro Suzuki and Masahiro Furutani

[Frontiers in Bioscience 9, 1680-1700, May 1, 2004]

Proteasomes: perspectives from the archaea
Julie A. Maupin-Furlow, Malgorzata A. Gil, Ivanka M. Karadzic, Phillip A. Kirkland and Christopher J. Reuter

[Frontiers in Bioscience 9, 1743-1758, May 1, 2004]

Osmoadaptation and osmoregulation in archaea: update 2004
Mary F. Roberts

[Frontiers in Bioscience 9, 1999-2019, September 1, 2004]

Sensing and adapting to environmental stress: the archaeal tactic
Emilia Pedone, Simonetta Bartolucci and Gabriella Fiorentino

[Frontiers in Bioscience 9, 2909-2926, September 1, 2004]

Archaeal chaperonins
Andrew T. Large, Peter A. Lund

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1304-1324, January 1, 2009]