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Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro · Martin Grube Editors Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Signifi cance Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro • Martin Grube Editors Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance Editors Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro Martin Grube Department of Natural Sciences Institute of Biology University of Michigan-Dearborn University of Graz Dearborn, MI, USA Graz, Austria ISBN 978-3-030-19029-3 ISBN 978-3-030-19030-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19030-9 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Preface Over the last decades, scientists have been intrigued by the fascinating microorgan- isms that inhabit extreme environments including extreme temperature, pressure, salinity, pH, etc. They grow optimally under one or several of these diverse condi- tions for their growth and are termed as extremophiles, which include acidophiles, alkaliphiles, halophiles, psychrophiles, thermophiles, hyperthermophiles, radiore- sistant microbes, barophiles, and endoliths. They thrive in habitats that are intoler- ably hostile or even lethal to other life-forms. Based on technological advances, the study of extremophiles has provided ground-breaking discoveries that challenge the paradigms of modern biology. In view of the nearly unlimited reservoir of extremo- philic organisms existing in nature and the exciting achievements of modern bio- technology, there remains an enormous potential waiting for further progress in synthetic biology, drug discovery, bioenergy, and bioremediation. It is envisaged that biotransformations employing extremophiles will be increasingly exploited as a useful and often a unique tool for biotechnological and industrial applications. Extremophiles have been identified to belong mainly in the domain archaea. However, extremophiles have also been identified in eubacterial and eukaryotic organisms such as fungi. Most fungi that are able to grow or survive under extreme conditions are in fact extremotolerant species, meaning they can also thrive under mesic conditions. It is still unclear how many fungi might clearly grow better under extreme conditions such as Wallemia ichthyophaga, which cannot grow without salt. In any case, the ecological versatility of these extremophilic/extremotolerant fungi may have potential impact in biotechnology. Fungi in general have played a very role in addressing major global challenges, being instrumental for improved resource efficiency, making renewable substitutes for products from fossil resources, upgrading waste streams to valuable food and feed ingredients, counteracting life- style diseases and antibiotic resistance through strengthening the gut biota (Lange, 2014: IMA Fungus 5, 463–471), making crop plants more robust to survive climate change conditions, and functioning as host organisms for the production of new biological drugs. This range of new uses of fungi all stand on the shoulders of the efforts of mycologists over generations. The next in demand are regimes of enzymes active under low-temperature conditions and enzymes active and stable at high v vi Preface temperatures for decomposition of both plant- and animal-derived biomasses. The expansion of commercialized enzymes from highly extreme ecological niches therefore calls for new breakthroughs. Here, mycologists specialized in fungi adapted to the extremes can contribute significantly. We follow the developments in this area and see how contemporary technologies help scientists to achieve a better understanding of biology at the extremes of life. This book builds on a platform of knowledge generated through the combined efforts of scientists and academics in the field of mycological research, where extremophilic fungi are seen as having the potential to contribute significantly toward a more sustainable world. This book puts together a rapidly growing and often scattered information on fungal life in the whole range of extreme environments and explores their habitats, biodiversity, ecol- ogy, evolution, genetics, biochemistry, and biotechnological applications in a col- lection of exciting reviews and original articles. It is a comprehensive and reliable source of information on the recent advances and challenges of extremophilic fun- gal research and a dependable reference text for readers interested in this field of research. The book will be organized in five parts. Part I is designed to underpin the biodi- versity, ecology, genetics, and physiology of extremophilic fungi. It is aimed to pro- vide a sufficient overview of the fungal world found in extreme environments and to enable readers to fully understand and appreciate the diversity of these organisms and their metabolic capabilities. It reviews the literature on the diversity of fungi growing at extreme conditions. The readers should soon come to recognize the ver- satility of fungi, their ability to grow on a wide range of extreme environments. Parts II and III explore the biotechnological potential of these fascinating organ- isms. It introduces the variety of extremophilic fungi as well as their osmolytes and enzymes. These parts also discuss the problems of experimental design associated with extremophiles/extremotolerants in biotechnological implications and the chal- lenges and possibilities of developing extremolytes and novel biomolecules for commercial purposes. Several research programs have also focused on natural prod- uct isolation from microbes dwelling in marine environments, which, in this book, is defined as being in extreme environments with high salinity, extreme tempera- tures, minimal light, as well as variable acidities and pressures. With improved sam- pling, culturing, and molecular-based techniques, the number of bioactive metabolites reported from marine fungi has increased significantly over the last 30 years. For instance, cephalosporins and plinabulin are bioactive compounds inspired by marine fungal natural products and either have been clinically approved or are currently in phase III clinical trials. An important area of research is the synthesis of nanoparticles by halophilic/halotolerant fungi. These nanoparticles have found uses in biomedical and environmental fields. It is expected that with the advancement of the understanding of bionanoparticle synthesis pathways in fungi, the application of bionanoparticles will expand to many more fields than biomedical and environmen- tal and will be potentially applied in diverse nanotechnological industries. Part IV is devoted to the applications of extremophilic fungi in bioenergy and biofuel synthesis. Thermophilic fungi produce many thermostable enzymes that are of biotechnological importance, particularly for degradation of lignocellulosic Preface vii biomass to make value-added biomaterials. This section reviews the function and utility of thermophilic enzymes and highlights the potential application of ligno- cellulose-degrading thermophilic fungi and their thermozymes in the extraction of natural rubber and biofuels. Part V examines the application of extensive degradative capabilities of extremo- philic/extremotolerant fungi, particularly the harnessing of these properties in waste treatment, bioremediation, and pollution control. Dearborn, MI, USA Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro Graz, Austria Martin Grube Contents Part I Biodiversity, Ecology, Genetics and Physiology of Extremophilic Fungi 1 Diversity and Ecology of Fungi in Mofettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Irena Maček 2 Eukaryotic Life in Extreme Environments: Acidophilic Fungi . . . . . 21 Angeles Aguilera and Elena González-Toril 3 Ecology of Thermophilic Fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Tássio Brito de Oliveira and Andre Rodrigues 4 New Perspectives on the Distribution and Roles of Thermophilic Fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Miriam I. Hutchinson, Amy J. Powell, José Herrera, and Donald O. Natvig 5 Ecology and Biotechnology of Thermophilic Fungi on Crops Under Global Warming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Robert Russell M. Paterson and Nelson Lima 6 Soil Microfungi of Israeli Deserts: Adaptations to Environmental Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Isabella Grishkan 7 Extremotolerant Black Fungi from Rocks and Lichens . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Claudio Gennaro Ametrano, Lucia Muggia, and Martin Grube 8 Basidiomycetous Yeast of the Genus Mrakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Masaharu Tsuji, Sakae Kudoh, Yukiko Tanabe, and Tamotsu Hoshino 9 Adaptation Mechanisms and Applications of Psychrophilic Fungi . . 157 Muhammad Rafiq, Noor Hassan, Maliha Rehman, and Fariha Hasan ix x Contents 10 Melanin as an Energy Transducer and a Radioprotector in Black Fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Mackenzie E. Malo and Ekaterina Dadachova 11 Fungi in Biofilms of Highly Acidic Soils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Martina Hujslová and Milan Gryndler 12 Global Proteomics of Extremophilic Fungi: Mission Accomplished? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Donatella Tesei, Katja Sterflinger, and Gorji Marzban Part II Biotechnological Applications of Extremophilic Fungi 13 Yeast Thriving in Cold Terrestrial Habitats: Biodiversity and Industrial/Biotechnological Applications . . . . . . . . . 253 Marcelo Baeza, Oriana Flores, Jennifer Alcaíno, and Víctor Cifuentes 14 Pharmaceutical Applications of Thermophilic Fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Gurram Shyam Prasad 15 Biotechnological Applications of Halophilic Fungi: Past, Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Imran Ali, Samira Khaliq, Sumbal Sajid, and Ali Akbar 16 Sporotrichum thermophile Xylanases and Their Biotechnological Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Ayesha Sadaf, Syeda Warisul Fatima, and Sunil K. Khare Part III Biosynthesis of Novel Biomolecules and Extremozymes 17 Deep-Sea Fungi: Diversity, Enzymes, and Bioactive Metabolites . . . 331 Muhammad Zain Ul Arifeen, Ya-Rong Xue, and Chang-Hong Liu 18 Bioactive Compounds from Extremophilic Marine Fungi . . . . . . . . . 349 Lesley-Ann Giddings and David J. Newman 19 Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles by Halotolerant Fungi . . . . . . . . 383 Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro 20 Cellulases from Thermophilic Fungi: Recent Insights and Biotechnological Potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Duo-Chuan Li and Anastassios C. Papageorgiou 21 β-Galactosidases from an Acidophilic Fungus, Teratosphaeria acidotherma AIU BGA-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 Kimiyasu Isobe and Miwa Yamada 22 Fungi from Extreme Environments: A Potential Source of Laccases Group of Extremozymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Om Prakash, Kapil Mahabare, Krishna Kumar Yadav, and Rohit Sharma Contents xi Part IV Bioenergy and Biofuel Synthesis 23 Lignocellulose-Degrading Thermophilic Fungi and Their Prospects in Natural Rubber Extraction from Plants . . . . 465 Shomaila Sikandar, Imran Afzal, Naeem Ali, and Katrina Cornish 24 Thermophilic Fungi and Their Enzymes for Biorefineries . . . . . . . . . 479 Abha Sharma, Anamika Sharma, Surender Singh, Ramesh Chander Kuhad, and Lata Nain Part V Bioremediation and Biosolids Treatment 25 Acidomyces acidophilus: Ecology, Biochemical Properties and Application to Bioremediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Wai Kit Chan, Dirk Wildeboer, Hemda Garelick, and Diane Purchase 26 Bioremediation Abilities of Antarctic Fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 María Martha Martorell, Lucas Adolfo Mauro Ruberto, Lucía Inés Figueroa de Castellanos, and Walter Patricio Mac Cormack 27 Haloalkaliphilic Fungi and Their Roles in the Treatment of Saline-Alkali Soil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 Yi Wei and Shi-Hong Zhang 28 Potential Role of Extremophilic Hydrocarbonoclastic Fungi for Extra- Heavy Crude Oil Bioconversion and the Sustainable Development of the Petroleum Industry . . . . . . 559 Leopoldo Naranjo-Briceño, Beatriz Pernía, Trigal Perdomo, Meralys González, Ysvic Inojosa, Ángela De Sisto, Héctor Urbina, and Vladimir León 29 Thermophilic Fungi in Composts: Their Role in Composting and Industrial Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
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