Cold-active enzymes constitute an attractive resource for biotechnological applications.
Their high catalytic activity at temperatures below 25° C makes them excellent biocatalysts …

Fungal lipases (triacylglycerol acyl hydrolases EC 3.1. 1.3) are significant industrial
enzymes and have several applications in a number of industries and fields. Fungal lipases …

The ESTHER database, which is freely available via a web server (http://bioweb. ensam.
inra. fr/esther) and is widely used, is dedicated to proteins with an α/β-hydrolase fold, and it …

Microorganisms are found throughout every corner of nature, and vast number of
microorganisms is difficult to cultivate by classical microbiological techniques. The advent of …

Lipase catalyzes hydrolysis of fats in lipid water interphase and perform variety of
biotransformation reactions under micro aqueous conditions. The major sources include …

Many researchers have found fungi as a reliable source of lipase due to the versatility of
their properties, ease of mass production, thermal stability, pH stability, broad substrate …

Highlights•Functional metagenomics facilitates the identification of novel genes.•New
resistance mechanisms to extreme conditions revealed by functional metagenomics.• …

Only a small minority of microorganisms from an environmental sample can be cultured in
the laboratory leaving the enormous bioprospecting potential of the uncultured diversity …

Metagenomics has made accessible an enormous reserve of global biochemical diversity.
To tap into this vast resource of novel enzymes, we have screened over one million clones …

A novel esterase gene (estSL3) was cloned from the Alkalibacterium sp. SL3, which was
isolated from the sediment of soda lake Dabusu. The 636-bp full-length gene encodes a …