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ReviewExtremophiles : life under extreme conditions2024

Extremophiles in a changing world.

D A Cowan, S V Albers, G Antranikian, H Atomi, B Averhoff, M Basen, A J M Driessen, M Jebbar, Z Kelman, M Kerou and 5 more

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Review in Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

D A CowanCentre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa. don.cowan@up.ac.za.
S V AlbersFaculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
G AntranikianInstitute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073, Hamburg, Germany.
H AtomiGraduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
B AverhoffDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
M BasenDepartment of Microbiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
A J M DriessenGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
M JebbarUniv. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, Laboratoire de Biologie Et d'Écologie Des Écosystèmes Marins Profonds (BEEP), IUEM, Rue Dumont d'Urville, 29280, Plouzané, France.
Z KelmanInstitute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Rockville, MD, USA.
M KerouDepartment of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
J LittlechildHenry Wellcome Building for Biocatalysis, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
V MüllerDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
P SchönheitInstitute of General Microbiology, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany.
B SiebersMolecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry (MEB), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), Centre for Water and Environmental Research (CWE), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45117, Essen, Germany.
K VorgiasBiology Department and RI-Bio3, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extremophiles and their products have been a major focus of research interest for over 40 years. Through this period, studies of these organisms have contributed hugely to many aspects of the fundamental and applied sciences, and to wider and more philosophical issues such as the origins of life and astrobiology. Our understanding of the cellular adaptations to extreme conditions (such as acid, temperature, pressure and more), of the mechanisms underpinning the stability of macromolecules, and of the subtleties, complexities and limits of fundamental biochemical processes has been informed by research on extremophiles. Extremophiles have also contributed numerous products and processes to the many fields of biotechnology, from diagnostics to bioremediation. Yet, after 40 years of dedicated research, there remains much to be discovered in this field. Fortunately, extremophiles remain an active and vibrant area of research. In the third decade of the twenty-first century, with decreasing global resources and a steadily increasing human population, the world's attention has turned with increasing urgency to issues of sustainability. These global concerns were encapsulated and formalized by the United Nations with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the presentation of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. In the run-up to 2030, we consider the contributions that extremophiles have made, and will in the future make, to the SDGs.

Indexed as

ExtremophilesAdaptation, PhysiologicalBiotechnologyExtreme EnvironmentsSustainable DevelopmentBioeconomyBioenergyBiominingBioproductsExtremophilesGene discoveryGlobal Sustainability GoalsMetagenomicsSustainable Development GoalsThermophiles

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PMID38683238
PMCPMC11058618

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