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Microorganisms from Patagonia and Antarctica and Their Cold-Active Skills for Using Polymeric Materials

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Both aquatic and soil ecosystems are environments rich in polymeric material from the different structures of the organisms belonging to the three domains of life that exist on our planet: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. Moreover, microbial communities play important roles in food webs, contributing to the regeneration of nutrients within these systems. The ecosystems of Patagonia and Antarctica could be taken into account as important reservoirs of microorganisms with potential biotechnological interest because of the cold-active hydrolytic enzyme activities produced there and also because of the diversity of enzyme-producing microbes. Cold-active amylase, pectinase, cellulase, carboxymethyl-cellulase, xylanase, galactosidase, glucosidase, chitinase, α-rhamnosidase, and protease activities have been detected so far in bacterial isolates from the sub-Antarctic region. The same activities, plus lipase, urease, and esterase activities, have been reported for fungal isolates obtained from Patagonia and Antarctica.

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  1. Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos PROIMI-CONICET, Av. Belgrano y Pje. Caseros, 4000, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina

    Fiorella F. Gomez, Jaime D. Babot & Faustino Siñeriz

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca FACEN-UNCa, Av. Belgrano 300, 4700, San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina

    Fiorella F. Gomez & Osvaldo Delgado

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Gomez, F.F., Babot, J.D., Lovrich, G.A., Siñeriz, F., Delgado, O. (2016). Microorganisms from Patagonia and Antarctica and Their Cold-Active Skills for Using Polymeric Materials. In: Olivera, N., Libkind, D., Donati, E. (eds) Biology and Biotechnology of Patagonian Microorganisms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42801-7_10

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