This article explores the physicochemical basis of the relationship between the microbial cell (especially its macromolecular systems), water, and polymeric and aromatic substances - including hydrocarbons - in the microbial habitat. It demonstrates that water can act as a chaperone for macromolecular systems, that the cytosol-membrane-extracellular milieu form an energetic and material continuum, and discuses the concept of symmetric versus asymmetric stresses.

First Author: Timmis, Kenneth N.; Lorenzo, Victor De; McGenity, Terry J.; Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof; Timmis, Kenneth N.
Attributed to:  Production, characterisation and novel roles of sea-ice diatom exopolymers (EPS) funded by NERC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology (2009)

Page Reference: 1451-1456

ISBN: 978-3-540-77584-3