| Sarah Hawkins |
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University of Waikato, MSc Antarctic bacteria and enzyme temperature optima. This project aimed to correlate the environmental temperature of organisms with the molecular properties of their enzymes. The thermal properties of a particular enzyme were compared between bacteria that had been growing at different environmental temperatures, but were from the same genus, Bacillus. The project gives a better understanding of the biochemical and physiological adaptations of Antarctic microorganisms to the cold climate. Publications |