▪ Abstract Molecular chaperones, including the heat-shock proteins (Hsps), are a ubiquitous
feature of cells in which these proteins cope with stress-induced denaturation of other …

▪ Abstract Environmental and hormonal regulators of diapause have been reasonably well
defined, but our understanding of the molecular regulation of diapause remains in its …

Depression of metabolic rate has been recorded for virtually all major animal phyla in
response to environmental stress. The extent of depression is usually measured as the ratio …

Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are extremely hydrophilic proteins that were
first identified in land plants. Intracellular accumulation is tightly correlated with acquisition of …

David Keilin (Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B, 150, 1959, 149–191) coined the term
'cryptobiosis'(hidden life) and defined it as 'the state of an organism when it shows no visible …

Water is usually thought to be required for the living state, but several organisms are
capable of surviving complete dehydration (anhydrobiotes). Elucidation of the mechanisms …

Water is critical for the survival of most cells and organisms. Remarkably, a small number of
multicellular animals are able to survive nearly complete drying. The phenomenon of …

Sequences of 40 very diverse representatives of the α-crystallin–small heat-shock protein (α-
Hsp) superfamily are compared. Their characteristic C-terminalα-crystallin domain'of 80–100 …

Publisher Summary The goal of this chapter is to clarify the diversity within the heat shock
proteins (sHsps) family and to describe evidence indicating that sHsps have many different …

Trehalose is a disaccharide of glucose that is found at high concentrations in a wide variety
of organisms that naturally survive drying in nature. Many years ago we reported that this …