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- Interest in extreme environments has grown over the past ten years to discover and study extremophilic microorganisms and their unique metabolites.
- These microorganisms create extremozymes and extremolytes that can be utilized in various biotechnological applications, contributing to a bio-based economy.
- The text reviews extremophile ecology and recent advancements in using these microorganisms and their products in biotechnology.
Article Abstract
In the last decade, attention to extreme environments has increased because of interests to isolate previously unknown extremophilic microorganisms in pure culture and to profile their metabolites. Microorganisms that live in extreme environments produce extremozymes and extremolytes that have the potential to be valuable resources for the development of a bio-based economy through their application to white, red, and grey biotechnologies. Here, we provide an overview of extremophile ecology, and we review the most recent applications of microbial extremophiles and the extremozymes and extremolytes they produce to biotechnology.
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