Prokaryotic life has dominated most of the evolutionary history of our planet, evolving to
occupy virtually all available environmental niches. Extremophiles, especially those thriving …

Recent reports have suggested that the establishment of industrially relevant enzyme
collections from environmental genomes has become a routine procedure. Across the …

Highlights•Metagenomics permitted a better knowledge of the microbial diversity of
hypersaline habitats.•Cellular life in hypersaline habitats is dominated by prokaryotes …

Esterases receive special attention because of their wide distribution in biological systems
and environments and their importance for physiology and chemical synthesis. The …

The applications of lipases in esterification, amidation, and transesterification have
broadened their potential in the production of fine compounds with high cumulative values …

Metagenomics has made accessible an enormous reserve of global biochemical diversity.
To tap into this vast resource of novel enzymes, we have screened over one million clones …

Since nucleic acids and proteins of unicellular prokaryotes are directly exposed to extreme
environmental conditions, it is possible to explore the genomic-proteomic compositional …

The recent discovery of extrasolar Earth-like planets that orbit in their habitable zone of their
system, and the latest clues of the presence of liquid water in the subsurface of Mars and in …

Hydrogen will be one of the key components for renewable energy storage in the future
energy systems as it can be stored in significant volumes to overcome daily to seasonal …

Natural biodiversity undoubtedly inspires biocatalysis research and innovation.
Biotransformations of interest also inspire the search for appropriate biocatalysts in nature …