A set of abiotic stressors pose multiple challenges to marine life due to their widespread influence on all classes of biochemical systems. Variations in temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and salinity have potential to disrupt structures and functions of all molecular systems on which life depends. In an article published in Marine Life Science & Technology, Professor Somero focuses largely on one class of stressor effects that challenges the performance of all types of large molecular systems: proteins, nucleic acids and lipoprotein membranes.
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