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Microbial Community Dynamics of Antarctica: Their Ecological Potential and Industrial Importance

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Antarctica is covered with ice and therefore the coldest, driest and least populated continent of the Earth. Apart from the challenges of sustaining the life in such environment, the microbial diversity of archaea, bacteria and fungi can thrive here by maintaining the membrane fluidity, producing the antifreeze proteins, cold-shock proteins, cryoprotectants, osmolytes, antioxidants, cold active enzymes, alteration in DNA, etc. and thereby adapted for the cold environments. In Antarctica, these microbes are the main basis for the biogeocycling of nutrients in extreme environments. The enzymes produced by these psychrophilic organisms are cold active and therefore gained the spotlight owing to their significance in environment and research. The behaviour of these cold-active enzymes has a wide and potentially biotechnological applications in fields as wide as the detergent, textile and food industries, medical and pharmaceutical preparations, bioremediation, etc. Therefore, the current manuscript illustrates the native microbial diversity and their significance and application aspect in environment and industry.

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Khan, A. et al. (2023). Microbial Community Dynamics of Antarctica: Their Ecological Potential and Industrial Importance. In: Soni, R., Suyal, D.C., Morales-Oyervides, L. (eds) Microbial Bioactive Compounds. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40082-7_15

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