Book description
Explores the utility and potential of extremophiles in
sustainability and biotechnology
Many extremophilic bio-products are already used as life-saving
drugs. Until recently, however, the difficulty of working with these
microbes has discouraged efforts to develop extremophilic microbes as
potential drug reservoirs of the future. Recent technological advances
have opened the door to exploring these organisms anew as sources of
products that might prove useful in clinical and environmental
biotechnology and drug development.
Extremophiles features outstanding articles by expert
scientists who shed light on broad-ranging areas of progress in the
development of smart therapeutics for multiple disease types and
products for industrial use. It bridges technological gaps, focusing
on critical aspects of extremolytes and the mechanisms regulating
their biosynthesis that are relevant to human health and bioenergy,
including value-added products of commercial significance as well as
other potentially viable products.
This groundbreaking guide:
- Introduces the variety of extremophiles and their extremolytes
including extremozymes
- Provides an overview of the methodologies used to acquire extremophiles
- Reviews the literature on the diversity of extremophiles
- Offers tools and criteria for data interpretation of various extremolytes/extremozymes
- Discusses experimental design problems associated with
extremophiles and their therapeutic implications
- Explores the challenges and possibilities of developing
extremolytes for commercial purposes
- Explains the FDA's regulations on certain microbial bio-products
that will be of interest to potential industrialists
Extremophiles is an immensely useful resource for graduate
students and researchers in biotechnology, clinical biotechnology,
microbiology, and applied microbiology.
Dr. Singh
is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and, in his
sabattical time, a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine. He volunteers his time as an online mentor for the American
Society of Microbiology and in 2010 was honored as the ASM's Outstanding
Online Mentor. Professor Singh serves on the boards of numerous journals
and has already edited one book and written numerous peer-reviewed
journal articles.
