TY - BOOK ID - 133401447 TI - Bioactive Molecules from Extreme Environments PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Medicine KW - Latrunculia KW - Antarctica KW - deep-sea sponge KW - molecular networking KW - molecular docking KW - discorhabdin KW - Arctic/Antarctic environment KW - biocatalysis KW - cold-adaptation KW - marine biotechnology KW - deep sea KW - extremophilic microorganisms KW - extremozyme KW - thermophilic enzyme KW - psychrophilic enzyme KW - halophilic enzyme KW - piezophilic enzyme KW - chitinase KW - cold-adapted KW - optimization KW - antifungal KW - Pseudomonas KW - Deinococcus KW - deinoxanthin KW - carotenoid KW - deep-sea KW - extreme KW - ecosystem KW - fungi KW - bioactive compounds KW - secondary metabolites KW - halophilic bacteria KW - archaea and fungi KW - biomolecules KW - biomedicine KW - antimicrobial compounds KW - anticancer compounds KW - green synthesis biomaterials KW - silver nitrate KW - antibiotics KW - nanotechnology KW - marine prokaryotes KW - microbial diversity KW - polyextremophiles KW - deep hypersaline anoxic basins KW - blue biotechnologies KW - extremozymes KW - limits of life KW - Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) KW - genome survey KW - mitochondrial genome KW - whiteleg shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) KW - antimicrobial peptide (AMP) KW - antihypertensive peptide (AHTP) KW - cypermethrin KW - biosurfactants KW - biodegradation capacities KW - marine sediments KW - Arctic/Antarctic KW - deep hypersaline anoxic basin KW - cold-adapted bacteria KW - halophilic microorganisms KW - marine natural product KW - enzyme KW - silver nanoparticle KW - marine bioprospecting UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133401447 AB - The papers included in this Special Issue "Bioactive Molecules from Extreme Environments" provide an overview of the growing interest in species biodiversity, highlighting the importance of marine extreme environments as sources of a unique marine chemical diversity of molecules. It is worth noting that six articles in this Special Issue are focused on molecules and enzymes isolated from Antarctica. This means that there is a growing interest in this habitat, most probably due to being perceived as an important source of drug discovery. In fact, the unique environment and ecological pressures of marine polar regions might be the major drivers of a selection of unique biological communities that are able to biosynthesize new compounds with diverse biological activities. It is expected that, in the near future, more marine molecules from polar regions, as well as from other extreme habitats, will find their way into biomedical and biotechnological applications. ER -