Halophiles and their biomolecules: recent advances and future applications in biomedicine

P Corral, MA Amoozegar, A Ventosa - Marine drugs, 2019 - mdpi.com
The organisms thriving under extreme conditions better than any other organism living on
Earth, fascinate by their hostile growing parameters, physiological features, and their …

Shedding light on the composition of extreme microbial dark matter: alternative approaches for culturing extremophiles

J Schultz, F Modolon, RS Peixoto… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
More than 20,000 species of prokaryotes (less than 1% of the estimated number of Earth's
microbial species) have been described thus far. However, the vast majority of microbes that …

Therapeutic applications and biological activities of bacterial bioactive extracts

Z Abdelghani, N Hourani, Z Zaidan, G Dbaibo… - Archives of …, 2021 - Springer
Bacteria are rich in a wide variety of secondary metabolites, such as pigments, alkaloids,
antibiotics, and others. These bioactive microbial products serve a great application in …

Marine anticancer drugs and their relevant targets: a treasure from the ocean

M Nigam, HAR Suleria, MH Farzaei… - DARU Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Marine organisms comprising animals and plants are wealthiest sources of bioactive
compounds possessing various pharmacological properties specifically: free radical …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial activity of bacteria isolated from Red Sea marine invertebrates

M El Samak, SM Solyman, A Hanora - Biotechnology Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Marine invertebrates-associated microorganisms were considered to be important sources
of marine bioactive products. This study aims to isolate marine invertebrates associated …

Exploring deep-sea brines as potential terrestrial analogues of oceans in the icy moons of the outer solar system

A Antunes, K Olsson-Francis, TJ McGenity - Current issues in molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Several icy moons of the outer solar system have been receiving considerable attention and
are currently seen as major targets for astrobiological research and the search for life …

A catalogue of 136 microbial draft genomes from Red Sea metagenomes

MF Haroon, LR Thompson, DH Parks, P Hugenholtz… - Scientific Data, 2016 - nature.com
Earth is expected to continue warming and the Red Sea is a model environment for
understanding the effects of global warming on ocean microbiomes due to its unusually high …

Metagenomic studies of the Red Sea

H Behzad, MA Ibarra, K Mineta, T Gojobori - Gene, 2016 - Elsevier
Metagenomics has significantly advanced the field of marine microbial ecology, revealing
the vast diversity of previously unknown microbial life forms in different marine niches. The …

A phenol amine molecule from Salinivenus iranica acts as the inhibitor of cancer stem cells in breast cancer cell lines

A Safarpour, M Ebrahimi, SAS Fazeli… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, the anticancer properties of metabolites from halophilic microorganisms
have received a lot of attention. Twenty-nine halophilic bacterial strains were selected from a …

Bioprospecting Red Sea coastal ecosystems for culturable microorganisms and their antimicrobial potential

S Al-Amoudi, M Essack, MF Simões, S Bougouffa… - Marine drugs, 2016 - mdpi.com
Microorganisms that inhabit unchartered unique soil such as in the highly saline and hot
Red Sea lagoons on the Saudi Arabian coastline, represent untapped sources of potentially …