Prospection of Psychrotrophic Filamentous Fungi Isolated from the High Andean Paramo Region of Northern Ecuador: Enzymatic Activity and Molecular Identification.

ABSTRACT: The isolation of filamentous fungal strains from remote habitats with extreme climatic conditions has led to the discovery of a series of enzymes with attractive properties that can be useful in various industrial applications. Among these, cold-adapted enzymes from fungi with psychrotrophic lifestyles are valuable agents in industrial processes aiming towards energy reduction. Out of eight strains isolated from soil of the paramo highlands of Ecuador, three were selected for further experimentation and identified as Cladosporium michoacanense, Cladosporium sp. (cladosporioides complex), and Didymella sp., this last being reported for the first time in this area. The secretion of seven enzymes, namely, endoglucanase, exoglucanase, β-D-glucosidase, endo-1,4-β-xylanase, β-D-xylosidase, acid,

SUBMITTER: Bruck SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8880075 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature