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 …

The disaccharide trehalose is widely distributed in nature and can serve as a carbon
reservoir, a signaling molecule for controlling glucose metabolism and a stress protectant …

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

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

Trehalose considerably increased the tolerance of Escherichia coli to air drying, whether
added as an excipient prior to drying or accumulated as a compatible solute in response to …

In natural environments, bacteria often enter a state of anhydrobiosis due to water loss.
Multiple studies have demonstrated that desiccation may lead to protein aggregation and …

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

Trehalose is a ubiquitous disaccharide not only in fungi but also in different classes of
prokaryots, plants and animals [1]. This non-reducing disaccharide has, like its vegetal …

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

Trehalose accumulates dramatically in microorganisms during heat shock and osmotic
stress and helps protect cells against thermal injury and oxygen radicals. Here we …