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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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7558612 2023-05-15T14:00:43+02:00 Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting Zucconi, Laura Canini, Fabiana Temporiti, Marta Elisabetta Tosi, Solveig 2020-09-04 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558612/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32899827 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186459 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558612/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32899827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186459 © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186459 2020-11-01T01:21:47Z 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. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica PubMed Central (PMC) 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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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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