极端环境微生物以其特殊的生理机能适应了高温、低温、高酸碱度、高盐、高压等恶劣生存条件,独特的生存环境形成了其特有的代谢方式并能够产生许多具有特殊功能的生物活性物质,如极端酶及抗生素等,它们在医药、食品、农业、化工、环保等领域有着重要的应用前景。本文综述近年来极端环境微生物产生的极端酶及抗生素。
Because of their special physiological functions, extremophiles can survive in and adapt to some extreme environments, such as high or low temperature, extremely salty, acidic or alkaline conditions, as well as high pressure etc. They can also, with their unique metabolic pathway formed in special environments, produce many special bioactive substances, such as extremozymes and antibiotics. These bioactive substances showed considerable usefulness and great potential in many areas, such as medicine, food, agriculture, chemical engineering and environmental protection. In this paper, we summarized the extremozymes and antibiotics produced by extemophiles in recent years.