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- Title
Metabolic Potential of Halophilic Filamentous Fungi—Current Perspective.
- Authors
Śliżewska, Weronika; Struszczyk-Świta, Katarzyna; Marchut-Mikołajczyk, Olga
- Abstract
Salty environments are widely known to be inhospitable to most microorganisms. For centuries salt has been used as a food preservative, while highly saline environments were considered uninhabited by organisms, and if habited, only by prokaryotic ones. Nowadays, we know that filamentous fungi are widespread in many saline habitats very often characterized also by other extremes, for example, very low or high temperature, lack of light, high pressure, or low water activity. However, fungi are still the least understood organisms among halophiles, even though they have been shown to counteract these unfavorable conditions by producing multiple secondary metabolites with interesting properties or unique biomolecules as one of their survival strategies. In this review, we focused on biomolecules obtained from halophilic filamentous fungi such as enzymes, pigments, biosurfactants, and osmoprotectants.
- Subjects
FILAMENTOUS fungi; METABOLITES; FOOD preservatives; HALOPHILIC organisms; BIOMOLECULES
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 8, p4189
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23084189