Extreme Environments as a Resource for Microorganisms and Novel Biocatalysts

摘要: The steady increase in the number of newly isolated extremophilic microorganisms and discovery their enzymes by academic industrial institutions underlines enormous potential extremophiles for application future biotechnological processes. Enzymes from offer versatile tools sustainable developments a variety as they show important environmental benefits due to biodegradability, specific stability under extreme conditions, improved use raw materials decreased amount waste products. Although major advances have been made last decade, our knowledge physiology, metabolism, enzymology genetics this fascinating group related is still limited. In-depth information on molecular properties genes, however, has be obtained analyze structure function proteins that are catalytically active around boiling freezing points water extremes pH. New techniques, such genomics, metanogenomics, DNA evolution gene shuffling, will lead production highly countless applications. Due unusual extremophiles, expected optimize already existing processes or even develop new technologies.