Arctic Biotechnology – Sustainable Products and Processes from Arctic Biological Resources

Mariane Schmidt Thøgersen; Rosanna Catherine Hennessy; Peter Stougaard

Arctic Biotechnology – Sustainable Products and Processes from Arctic Biological Resources

Mariane Schmidt Thøgersen, Rosanna Catherine Hennessy, Peter Stougaard

Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology

Abstract

Biological resources from the Arctic hold the potential for development of sustainable products and/or processes within areas such as pharma, agriculture, and biotech. Here, we present the identification of cold-active enzymes and biocontrol agents isolated from cold-adapted bacteria.
Truly cold-active enzymes are not yet on the market. It is possible, though, to find truly cold-active enzymes with industrial potential. We have characterized a β-galactosidase which has a temperature optimum at 20 °C, but still maintains 60% of its activity at 0 °C (Schmidt et al. 2010). The β-galactosidase is able to hydrolyze lactose and form prebiotic galactooligosaccharides (GOS) in milk. We have furthermore isolated several biocontrol strains from Greenlandic potato soils. One of these strains, Pseudomonas sp. In5, possesses strong antifungal activity, and it has been shown to produce at least two antimicrobial non-ribosomal peptides (NRPs), which furthermore recently have been shown to have anticancer activity (Michelsen et al. 2015).

Original language	English
Publication date	2017
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	Bioprosp_2017 : The 8th International Conference on Marine Biotechnology - Tromsø, Norway Duration: 8 Mar 2017 → 10 Mar 2017 http://bioprosp.com/

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Conference	Bioprosp_2017
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Tromsø
Period	08/03/2017 → 10/03/2017
Internet address	http://bioprosp.com/

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