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ReviewExtremophiles : life under extreme conditions2021

Role of extremophiles and their extremozymes in biorefinery process of lignocellulose degradation.

Dixita Chettri, Ashwani Kumar Verma, Lija Sarkar, Anil Kumar Verma

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Review in Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Structure and Activity of Class II Lanthipeptides From a Thermophilic Bacterium.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Dixita ChettriDepartment of Microbiology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, 737102, India.
Ashwani Kumar VermaDepartment of Microbiology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, 737102, India.
Lija SarkarDepartment of Microbiology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, 737102, India.
Anil Kumar VermaDepartment of Microbiology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, 737102, India. akverma@cus.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0561-1954

Funding

University Research Fund Award 2018 SU/2019/REGISTRAR/PROJECT/UNIVERSITY/01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Technological advances in the field of life sciences have led to discovery of organisms that live in harsh environmental conditions referred to as extremophiles. These organisms have adapted themselves to thrive in extreme habitat giving these organisms an advantage over conventional mesophilic organisms in various industrial applications. Extremozymes produced by these extremophiles have high tolerance to inhospitable environmental conditions making them an ideal enzyme system for various industrial processes. A notable application of these extremophiles and extremozymes is their use in the degradation of recalcitrant lignocellulosic biomass and application in biorefineries. For maximum utilization of the trapped carbon source from this obstinate biomass, pretreatment is a necessary step that requires various physiochemical and enzymatic treatments. From search for novel extremophiles and extremozymes to development of various genetic and protein engineering techniques, investigation on extremozymes with enhanced stability and efficiency is been done. Since extremozymes are easily calibrated to work under such conditions, they have become an emerging topic in the research field of biofuel production. The review discusses the various extremozymes that play an important role in lignocellulose degradation along with recent studies on their molecular and genetic evolution for industrial application and production of biofuels and various value-added products.

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ExtremophilesBiofuelsBiomassLigninBiofuelsLigninlignocelluloseBiofuelsBiorefineriesCAZymesExtremophilesExtremozymesLignocellulose

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