Background Diverse organisms across taxa are desiccation tolerant, capable of surviving
extreme water loss. Remarkably, desiccation tolerant organisms can survive years without …

Diverse organisms capable of surviving desiccation, termed anhydrobiotes, include species
from bacteria, yeast, plants, and invertebrates. However, most organisms are sensitive to …

Trehalose has been shown to play a role in osmotolerance or desiccation tolerance in some
microorganisms, anhydrobiotic invertebrates and resurrection plants. To test whether …

Tardigrades are microscopic animals renowned for their ability to survive extreme
desiccation. Unlike many desiccation-tolerant organisms that accumulate high levels of the …

Desiccation is a common stress that bacteria face in the natural environment, and thus, they
have developed a variety of protective mechanisms to mitigate the damage caused by water …

Desiccation tolerance, the ability to survive nearly total dehydration, is a rare strategy for
survival and reproduction observed in all taxa. However, the mechanism and regulation of …

Anhydrobiotic engineering aims to confer a high degree of desiccation tolerance on
otherwise sensitive living organisms and cells by adopting the strategies of anhydrobiosis …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells grown at physiological temperature 24° C require
preconditioning at 37° C to acquire tolerance towards brief exposure to 48–50° C. During …

Trehalose is thought to be important for desiccation tolerance in a number of organisms,
including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but there is limited in vivo evidence to support this …

The disaccharide trehalose is produced in large quantities by diverse organisms during a
variety of stresses. Trehalose prevents proteins from denaturing at high temperatures in …