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Cold-Adapted Enzymes Produced by Fungi from Terrestrial and Marine Antarctic Environments Critical Reviews in Biotechnology ISSN: 0738-8551 (Print) 1549-7801 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ibty20 Cold-adapted enzymes produced by fungi from terrestrial and marine Antarctic environments Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte, Juliana Aparecida dos Santos, Marina Vitti Vianna, Juliana Maíra Freitas Vieira, Vitor Hugo Mallagutti, Fabio José Inforsato, Lia Costa Pinto Wentzel, Luciana Daniela Lario, Andre Rodrigues, Fernando Carlos Pagnocca, Adalberto Pessoa Junior & Lara Durães Sette To cite this article: Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte, Juliana Aparecida dos Santos, Marina Vitti Vianna, Juliana Maíra Freitas Vieira, Vitor Hugo Mallagutti, Fabio José Inforsato, Lia Costa Pinto Wentzel, Luciana Daniela Lario, Andre Rodrigues, Fernando Carlos Pagnocca, Adalberto Pessoa Junior & Lara Durães Sette (2018) Cold-adapted enzymes produced by fungi from terrestrial and marine Antarctic environments, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 38:4, 600-619, DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2017.1379468 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/07388551.2017.1379468 Published online: 11 Dec 2017. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 424 View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ibty20 CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY, 2018 VOL. 38, NO. 4, 600–619 https://doi.org/10.1080/07388551.2017.1379468 REVIEW ARTICLE Cold-adapted enzymes produced by fungi from terrestrial and marine Antarctic environments Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duartea,b, Juliana Aparecida dos Santosc, Marina Vitti Viannac, Juliana Maıra Freitas Vieirac, Vitor Hugo Mallaguttic, Fabio Jose Inforsatoc, Lia Costa Pinto Wentzelc, Luciana Daniela Lariod,e, Andre Rodriguesc, Fernando Carlos Pagnoccac, Adalberto Pessoa Juniore and Lara Dur~aes Settec aUniversidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus Arapiraca, Arapiraca, Brazil; bDivis~ao de Recursos Microbianos, Centro Pluridisciplinar de Pesquisas Quımicas, Biologicas e Agrıcolas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Paulınia, Brazil; cDepartamento de Bioquımica e Microbiologia, Universidade Estadual Paulistra (UNESP), C^ampus de Rio Claro, Rio Claro, Brazil; dCentro de Estudios Fotosinteticos y Bioquımicos, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina; eDepartamento de Tecnologia Bioquımico-Farmac^eutica, Faculdade de Ci^encias Farmac^euticas, Universidade de S~ao Paulo, S~ao Paulo, Brazil ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, and driest continent on Earth. In this sense, microorganisms Received 3 March 2017 that inhabit Antarctica environments have to be adapted to harsh conditions. Fungal strains affili- Revised 28 July 2017 ated with Ascomycota and Basidiomycota phyla have been recovered from terrestrial and marine Accepted 1 August 2017 Antarctic samples. They have been used for the bioprospecting of molecules, such as enzymes. Many reports have shown that these microorganisms produce cold-adapted enzymes at low or KEYWORDS a mild temperatures, including hydrolases (e.g. -amylase, cellulase, chitinase, glucosidase, invert- Antarctica; bioprospecting; ase, lipase, pectinase, phytase, protease, subtilase, tannase, and xylanase) and oxidoreductases cold-adapted enzymes; (laccase and superoxide dismutase). Most of these enzymes are extracellular and their production extremophiles; filamentous in the laboratory has been carried out mainly under submerged culture conditions. Several fungi; mycology; studies showed that the cold-adapted enzymes exhibit a wide range in optimal pH (1.0–9.0) and psychrophiles; yeasts temperature (10.0–70.0 C). A myriad of methods have been applied for cold-adapted enzyme purification, resulting in purification factors and yields ranging from 1.70 to 1568.00-fold and 0.60 to 86.20%, respectively. Additionally, some fungal cold-adapted enzymes have been cloned and expressed in host organisms. Considering the enzyme-producing ability of microorganisms and the properties of cold-adapted enzymes, fungi recovered from Antarctic environments could be a prolific genetic resource for biotechnological processes (industrial and environmental) carried out at low or mild temperatures. Introduction research [3–5]. Cold-adapted enzymes are an important element of the survival strategy in Antarctic ecosystems Antarctica is a remote continent whose predominant characteristics include extreme low temperatures in and their properties could confer some advantages in winter (between À20.0 and À50.0 C at the McMurdo biotechnological processes [6,7]. Some examples of Dry Valleys) and average temperatures below 0.0 C, cold-active enzymes from microorganisms have been cycles of freezing and thawing, strong winds, high sub- reported (Cavicchioli et al. [8] and Marx et al. [9]). limation and evaporation rates, high radiation inci- Although Cavicchioli et al. [8] evaluated the cold-active dence, and long periods of darkness that limit the enzymes produced by bacteria, archaea, and fungi from development of life [1]. Microorganisms inhabiting cold environments; they did not obtain these microbes these environments may have a key role in the trans- specifically from Antarctica. On the other hand, Marx port of energy, nutrient recycling and mineralization, et al. [9] contributions are related to the cold-adapted providing the basis for the function of these terrestrial, enzymes from marine Antarctic microorganisms, high- and aquatic ecosystems [1,2]. lighting the comparison of these enzymes with their Due to their extremophilic adaptability, fungi mesophilic counterparts. Fungi from Antarctic terrestrial from Antarctic environments have been a focus of samples have not been mentioned. CONTACT Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte [email protected] Univesidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus Arapiraca, Manoel Severino Barbosa, s/n, Arapiraca 57309-005, Brazil; Lara Dur~aes Sette [email protected] Universidade Estadual Paulistra (UNESP), Departamento de Bioquımica e Microbiologia, Universidade Estadual Paulistra, 24A, 1515, Rio Claro 13506-900, Brazil ß 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY 601 Considering the ecological and biotechnological rele- Conversely, the majority of yeasts recovered from vance of fungi from Antarctic ecosystems, this review Antarctica belong to the phylum Basidiomycota. reports the main cold-adapted enzymes produced by Representatives of the genera Cryptococcus and filamentous fungi and yeasts. Rhodotorula have frequently been isolated from Antarctic environments [12,14,18,24]. Other common genera from the phylum Basidiomycota reported in Diversity of fungi recovered from Antarctic Antarctica are: Bensingtonia, Bullera, Cystofilobasidium, samples Dioszegia, Glaciozyma, Holtermanniella, Leucosporidium, Microorganisms from Antarctic environments include Mrakia, Pseudozyma, Papiliotrema, Sporobolomyces, and representatives from all three domains, Bacteria, Tausonia (formerly Guehomyces). Ascomycota yeasts Archaea, and Eukarya [10]. They are classified as psy- commonly found in Antarctica belong to the genera chrophilic, psychrotolerant, and mesophilic-psychroto- Candida, Debaryomyces, Kodamaea, Meyerozyma, lerant. Psychrophilic microorganisms grow at maximum Metschnikowia, Wickerhamomyces, and Yamadazyma temperatures below 20.0 C with optimum growth [3,18,24–26,33,41,42]. temperatures lower than, or equal to, 15.0 C. Metschnikowia australis and Naganishia antarctica Psychrotolerant microorganisms have the ability to (formerly Cryptococcus antarcticus) are supposed to be grow at low temperatures, with optimum growth tem- autochthonous in Antarctica [2,3]. Representatives of M. peratures varying from >15.0 and 25.0 C, while mes- australis were recovered from seawater [33], macroalgae ophilic-psychrotolerant microorganisms have the ability [3,25,35,36], and sponge [34], whereas representatives to grow at low temperatures, with optimum growth of Naganishia antarcticus were isolated from soil, cold temperatures >25.0 and 40.0 C[11]. desert soil [39,43], and rhizosphere soil [33]. Antarctic fungi were isolated from many terrestrial Considering the advances in the microbial taxonomy, environments, including soils [4,7,12–16], ornithogenic some of the yeast species found in Antarctica are being soils [17,18], penguin, skua, and petrel dung and bird reclassified [44,45]. However, a comprehensive nomen- feathers [19], bryophytes [20,21], leaves from vascular clatural revision is beyond the scope of this review; the plants [22–24], lichens and stones with lichens nomenclature presented in this work is that originally [18,25,26], rocks [27,28], ice-free rocks [29], and wooden presented in previous literature. structures [30,31]. On the other hand, fungi from The growing number of new fungal taxa from Antarctic marine ecosystems have been isolated from Antarctica indicates an apparently hidden diversity in sediments [18,32,33], seawater [12,33], sponges this environment. Besides, next-generation sequencing [5,18,34], and macroalgae [3,25,35,36]. technologies and metagenomics approaches proved to Most fungal species recovered from Antarctica are be effective for the knowledge and comparison of the common, possibly because this environment continu- Antarctic microbial communities [46,47]. The following ously receives microbial propagules from outside the new fungal species isolated from Antarctic samples Continent [2]. According to Margesin and Miteva [10], have recently been described: Cystobasidium portillo-
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