Cold-Active Enzymes and Their Potential Industrial Applications—A Review [PDF]
Molecules, 2022 More than 70% of our planet is covered by extremely cold environments, nourishing a broad diversity of microbial life. Temperature is the most significant parameter that plays a key role in the distribution of microorganisms on our planet.
Burhan Hamid +10 more
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Discovery, Molecular Mechanisms and Industrial Applications of Cold-Active Enzymes [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Cold-active enzymes constitute an attractive resource for biotechnological applications. Their high catalytic activity at temperatures below 25 ºC makes them excellent biocatalysts that eliminate the need of heating processes hampering the quality ...
Margarita Santiago +4 more
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Aliivibrio wodanis as a production host: development of genetic tools for expression of cold-active enzymes [PDF]
Microbial Cell Factories, 2019 Background Heterologous production of cold-adapted proteins currently represents one of the greatest bottlenecks in the ongoing bioprospecting efforts to find new enzymes from low-temperature environments, such as, the polar oceans that represent ...
Jenny Johansson Söderberg +3 more
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Taking Advantage of Promiscuity of Cold-Active Enzymes
Applied Sciences, 2020 Cold-active enzymes increase their catalytic efficiency at low-temperature, introducing structural flexibility at or near the active sites. Inevitably, this feat seems to be accompanied by lower thermal stability.
Sondavid K. Nandanwar +3 more
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Helping proteins come in from the cold: 5 burning questions about cold-active enzymes [PDF]
BBA Advances, 2023 Enzymes from psychrophilic (cold-loving) organisms have attracted considerable interest over the past decades for their potential in various low-temperature industrial processes.
Jan Stanislaw Nowak, Daniel E. Otzen
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Metagenomic exploration of cold‐active enzymes for detergent applications: Characterization of a novel, cold‐active and alkali‐stable GH8 endoglucanase from ikaite columns in SW Greenland [PDF]
Microbial BiotechnologyMicrobial communities from extreme environments are largely understudied, but are essential as producers of metabolites, including enzymes, for industrial processes.
Bianca Oliva +4 more
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New Biotechnology, 2020 Psychrophilic organisms adapted to cold environments produce molecules of relevance for biotechnological application, in particular enzymes active at low temperatures and ice-binding proteins that control the growth of ice crystals.
Marina Lotti +2 more
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Biotechnological potential of psychrophilic microorganisms as the source of cold-active enzymes in food processing applications. [PDF]
3 Biotech, 2021 Kumari M +5 more
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Cold‐active microbial enzymes and their biotechnological applications
Microbial BiotechnologyMicroorganisms known as psychrophiles/psychrotrophs, which survive in cold climates, constitute majority of the biosphere on Earth. Their capability to produce cold‐active enzymes along with other distinguishing characteristics allows them to survive in ...
Mohammed Kuddus +7 more
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An overview of the biotechnological applications of bacterial cold active enzymes
Environment Conservation Journal, 2015 Bacteria are adapted to survive at extremely low temperatures due to their exceptionally versatile metabolic capabilities. Besides other metabolites, a number of cold active enzymes are also produced by these tiny organisms to make their survival ...
A.S. Panwar, D. Molpa, G.K. Joshi
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