Extracellular Enzymes and Bioactive Compounds from Antarctic Terrestrial Fungi for Bioprospecting.

ABSTRACT: 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 num

SUBMITTER: Zucconi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7558612 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature