Diversity and niche of archaea in bioremediation

MJ Krzmarzick, DK Taylor, X Fu, AL McCutchan - Archaea, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms for the degradation or removal of contaminants.
Most bioremediation research has focused on processes performed by the domain Bacteria; …

Halocins, natural antimicrobials of Archaea: Exotic or special or both?

V Kumar, B Singh, MJ van Belkum, DB Diep… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Haloarchaea are adapted to survive under extreme saline conditions by accumulating
osmolytes and salts to counteract the high osmotic pressure in their habitats. As a …

[HTML][HTML] Hypersaline environments as natural sources of microbes with potential applications in biotechnology: The case of solar evaporation systems to produce salt …

GM Martínez, C Pire, RM Martínez-Espinosa - Current research in microbial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extremophilic microbes show a unique metabolism due to the adaptations they display to
deal with extreme environmental parameters characterizing the extreme ecosystems that …

[HTML][HTML] Antioxidant, antimicrobial, and bioactive potential of two new haloarchaeal strains isolated from odiel salterns (Southwest Spain)

P Gómez-Villegas, J Vigara, M Vila, J Varela, L Barreira… - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Halophilic archaea are microorganisms that inhabit in extreme
environments for life, under salt saturation, high temperature and elevated UV radiation. The …

Halophilic archaea and their potential to generate renewable fuels and chemicals

L Kasirajan, JA Maupin‐Furlow - Biotechnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lignocellulosic biofuels and chemicals have great potential to reduce our dependence on
fossil fuels and mitigate air pollution by cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions …

Antimicrobial peptides, polymorphic toxins, and self-nonself recognition systems in archaea: an untapped armory for intermicrobial conflicts

KS Makarova, YI Wolf, S Karamycheva, D Zhang… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Numerous, diverse, highly variable defense and offense genetic systems are encoded in
most bacterial genomes and are involved in various forms of conflict among competing …

Antibiotics from haloarchaea: what can we learn from comparative genomics?

I de Castro, S Mendo, T Caetano - Marine biotechnology, 2020 - Springer
The knowledge of antibiotics produced by Archaea (archaeocins) is still limited. So far, only
two types of archaeocins are known:(i) sulfolobicins, produced by the extremely thermophilic …

A pilot survey on antimicrobial activity and diversity of soil-derived actinobacteria from different depths in Gudzhirganskoe Saline Lake in Eastern Siberia

Q Yang, P Guo, EY Abidueva, EV Lavrentyeva… - Journal of Oceanology …, 2023 - Springer
To explore pharmaceutical actinobacteria from salty environments in Siberia, 8 soil samples
were collected from different depths of Gudzhirganskoe saline lake, the Republic of Buryatia …

Exploring halophilic environments as a source of new antibiotics

TP Thompson, BF Gilmore - Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Microbial natural products from microbes in extreme environments, including haloarchaea,
and halophilic bacteria, possess a huge capacity to produce novel antibiotics. Additionally …

Using some microorganisms as biocontrol agents to manage phytopathogenic fungi: a comprehensive review

SA Alamoudi - Journal of Plant Pathology, 2024 - Springer
Globally, phytopathogenic fungi infections cause crop diseases, resulting in crop yield and
quality loss. Extensive use of chemical fungicides leads to resistance and high costs for …