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- Title
- Enzyme activities and biotechnological applications of cold-active microfungi
- Related
- Anitori, Roberto Paul. Extremophiles : microbiology and biotechnology, p.89-108
- Publisher
- Wymondham : Caister Academic Press
- Date
- 2012
- Author/Creator
- Nevalainen, Helena
- Author/Creator
- Bradner, Ron
- Author/Creator
- Wadud, Sania
- Author/Creator
- Mohammed, Suja
- Author/Creator
- McRae, Christopher
- Author/Creator
- Te'o, Junior
- Description
- Fungi are eukaryotic organisms and considered to be less adaptable to extreme environments when compared to bacteria. While there are no thermophilic microfungi in a strict sense, some fungi have adapted to life in the cold. Cold-active microfungi have been isolated from the Antarctic and their enzyme activities explored with a view to finding new candidates for industrial use. On another front, environmental pollution by petroleum products in the Antarctic has led to a search for, and the subsequent discovery of, fungal isolates capable of degrading hydrocarbons. The work has paved the way to developing a bioremedial approach to containing this type of contamination in cold climates. Here we discuss our efforts to map the capability of Antarctic microfungi to degrade oil and also introduce a novel cold-active fungal lipase enzyme.
- Description
- 20 pages(s)
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Australian School of Advanced Medicine
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/165946
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781904455981
- Identifier
- mq_res-20120228-150620
- Language
- eng
