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Extremophilic Cyanobacteria For Novel Drug Development

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Cyanobacteria are one of the most successful groups of organisms this planet has ever seen. During their long evolutionary history, they have undergone several structural and functional modifications. They had to adapt various environmental conditions and during this process they come up as one of the extremophilic organism. In this chapter, the diversity of cyanobacteria in various extreme habitats is discussed with examples of dominant species. We have discussed various adaptation strategies they follow for their survival. Cyanobacteria are able to survive in metabolically extreme environments, where the energy flow is low, by exploiting both the electron donor and the electron acceptor and are prolific producers of secondary metabolites, many of which show various bioactivities. We discussed the new pharmaceutical compounds found from them.

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    Sikha Mandal & Jnanendra Rath

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    Jnanendra Rath

  3. Research Associate Department of Botany Institute of Science, Visva Bharati (A Central University), 731235, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

    Sikha Mandal

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Mandal, S., Rath, J. (2015). Introduction. In: Extremophilic Cyanobacteria For Novel Drug Development. SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12009-6_1

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