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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Helping proteins come in from the cold: 5 burning questions about cold-active enzymes [PDF]
BBA AdvancesEnzymes 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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Microorganisms from Antarctica: A Review of Their Potential in the Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soils [PDF]
MicroorganismsAntarctica’s extreme cryospheric conditions impose severe thermodynamic constraints on the natural attenuation of hydrocarbon pollutants. Despite the Antarctic Treaty System’s protections, the footprint of human logistics has left persistent reservoirs ...
Jaime Naranjo-Moran +2 more
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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.
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Marine Drugs, 2011 The diversity and cold-active hydrolytic enzymes of culturable bacteria associated with sandy sediment from Nella Fjord, Eastern Antarctica (69°22′6″ S, 76°21′45″ E) was investigated. A total of 33 aerobic heterotrophic bacterial strains were isolated at
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Biotechnological potential of psychrophilic microorganisms as the source of cold-active enzymes in food processing applications [PDF]
3 Biotech, 2021 Srichandan Padhi +2 more
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Repeated Cold Water Stress Leads to Improvements in Mitochondrial Metabolism of Skeletal Muscles in Rats [PDF]
MetabolitesBackground: In this study, we aimed to determine whether cold-water swimming could serve as a potential strategy to enhance antioxidant capacity, improve NADH utilization in oxidative metabolism, and consequently lead to better muscle metabolism and ...
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A CALB-like Cold-Active Lipolytic Enzyme from Pseudonocardia antarctica: Expression, Biochemical Characterization, and AlphaFold-Guided Dynamics [PDF]
Marine DrugsCold-active lipolytic enzymes enable low-temperature biocatalysis, but remain underexplored in Antarctic actinomycetes. Here, we report the discovery and first-step characterization of a CALB-like cold-active lipolytic enzyme (PanLip) from Pseudonocardia
Lixiao Liu +4 more
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