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Life under extreme conditions.
Halophilic archaea thrive in harsh environments like the salt flat shown here, on the Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia). In this issue of PLoS Biology, a Research Article (see Tadeo et al., e1000257) explains that, at the molecular level, the proteins of these extremophiles have evolved toward a biased amino acid composition, which reduces their interactions with the solvent.
Image Credit: Luca Galuzzi, www.galuzzi.it
Citation: (2009) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 7(12) December 2009. PLoS Biol 7(12): ev07.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v07.i12
Published: December 22, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Luca Galuzzi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Halophilic archaea thrive in harsh environments like the salt flat shown here, on the Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia). In this issue of PLoS Biology, a Research Article (see Tadeo et al., e1000257) explains that, at the molecular level, the proteins of these extremophiles have evolved toward a biased amino acid composition, which reduces their interactions with the solvent.
Image Credit: Luca Galuzzi, www.galuzzi.it