IND-enzymes: a repository for hydrolytic enzymes derived from thermophilic and psychrophilic bacterial species with potential industrial usage.

Biocatalysts provide many advantages over the traditional chemically assisted processes prevalent in industries. Consequently, the search for novel enzymes has increased over the years with a renewed interest in thermophilic and psychrophilic bacterial species. Enzymes or extremozymes extracted from such species have exhibited an affinity to extreme temperatures which is a prerequisite for many industrial applications.

Compost Samples from Different Temperature Zones as a Model to Study Co-occurrence of Thermophilic and Psychrophilic Bacterial Population: a Metagenomics Approach.

In this study, using a metagenomic approach, we explore the bacterial diversity of compost sites categorized based on their ambient temperatures. The two sites were Reckong Peo in the lower Himalayas and Tambaram in the southern region of the country, namely, CPR and CT. Following assembly of the raw reads from shotgun metagenomics, similarity hits were generated using NCBI BLAST + and SILVA database.