Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting
Antarctica, one of the harshest environments in the world, has been successfully colonized by extremophilic, psychrophilic, and psychrotolerant microorganisms, facing a range of extreme conditions. Fungi are the most diverse taxon in the Antarctic ecosystems, including soils. Genetic adaptation to t...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:49ec5766c280427db3aa5c1de0cffa21 2023-05-15T13:51:22+02:00 Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting Laura Zucconi Fabiana Canini Marta Elisabetta Temporiti Solveig Tosi 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186459 https://doaj.org/article/49ec5766c280427db3aa5c1de0cffa21 EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/18/6459 https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827 https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601 doi:10.3390/ijerph17186459 1660-4601 1661-7827 https://doaj.org/article/49ec5766c280427db3aa5c1de0cffa21 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 6459, p 6459 (2020) adaptative strategies bioprospecting extreme environment soil fungi Medicine R article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186459 2022-12-31T02:53:47Z Antarctica, one of the harshest environments in the world, has been successfully colonized by extremophilic, psychrophilic, and psychrotolerant microorganisms, facing a range of extreme conditions. Fungi are the most diverse taxon in the Antarctic ecosystems, including soils. Genetic adaptation to this environment results in the synthesis of a range of metabolites, with different functional roles in relation to the biotic and abiotic environmental factors, some of which with new biological properties of potential biotechnological interest. An overview on the production of cold-adapted enzymes and other bioactive secondary metabolites from filamentous fungi and yeasts isolated from Antarctic soils is here provided and considerations on their ecological significance are reported. A great number of researches have been carried out to date, based on cultural approaches. More recently, metagenomics approaches are expected to increase our knowledge on metabolic potential of these organisms, leading to the characterization of unculturable taxa. The search on fungi in Antarctica deserves to be improved, since it may represent a useful strategy for finding new metabolic pathways and, consequently, new bioactive compounds. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Antarctic The Antarctic International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 18 6459 |
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Antarctica, one of the harshest environments in the world, has been successfully colonized by extremophilic, psychrophilic, and psychrotolerant microorganisms, facing a range of extreme conditions. Fungi are the most diverse taxon in the Antarctic ecosystems, including soils. Genetic adaptation to this environment results in the synthesis of a range of metabolites, with different functional roles in relation to the biotic and abiotic environmental factors, some of which with new biological properties of potential biotechnological interest. An overview on the production of cold-adapted enzymes and other bioactive secondary metabolites from filamentous fungi and yeasts isolated from Antarctic soils is here provided and considerations on their ecological significance are reported. A great number of researches have been carried out to date, based on cultural approaches. More recently, metagenomics approaches are expected to increase our knowledge on metabolic potential of these organisms, leading to the characterization of unculturable taxa. The search on fungi in Antarctica deserves to be improved, since it may represent a useful strategy for finding new metabolic pathways and, consequently, new bioactive compounds. |
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Laura Zucconi Fabiana Canini Marta Elisabetta Temporiti Solveig Tosi |
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Laura Zucconi Fabiana Canini Marta Elisabetta Temporiti Solveig Tosi |
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Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting |
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Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting |
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Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting |
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Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting |
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Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting |
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extracellular enzymes and bioactive compounds from antarctic terrestrial fungi for bioprospecting |
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