Microbial life at high pressures.
Deep-sea environment have selected for the evolution of unusual bacterial extremophiles which are adapted to life at high pressures. This review briefly characterises barophilic bacteria; compares and contrasts high pressure effects on cellular and biochemical processes in both barosensitive and barophilic bacteria; and presents molecular and genetic approaches which have been used to examine the basis of high pressure sensitivity in terrestrial barosensitive bacteria, or to dissect barophilic processes in deep-sea bacteria.
Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0202.
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D000399:Air Pressure; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D006874:Hydrostatic Pressure; D008386:Marine Biology; D014871:Water Microbiology