RESEARCH ARTICLE
Characterization of lignocellulolytic activities from fungi isolated from the deep-sea sponge Stelletta normani Ramo´n Alberto Batista-Garcı´a1,2, Thomas Sutton3, Stephen A. Jackson3,4, Omar Eduardo Tovar-Herrera5, Edgar Balca´zar-Lo´pez1,2, Marı´a del Rayo Sa´nchez-Carbente2, Ayixon Sa´nchez-Reyes1,2, Alan D. W. Dobson3,4*, Jorge Luis Folch-Mallol2*
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1 Centro de Investigacio´n en Dina´mica Celular, Universidad Auto´noma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 2 Centro de Investigacio´n en Biotecnologı´a, Universidad Auto´noma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 3 School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 4 Marine Biotechnology Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5 Instituto de Biotecnologı´a, Facultad de Ciencias Biolo´gicas, Universidad Auto´noma de Nuevo Leo´n, San Nicola´s de los Garza, Nuevo Leo´n, Mexico * [email protected] (ADWD); [email protected] (JLFM)
Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Batista-Garcı´a RA, Sutton T, Jackson SA, Tovar-Herrera OE, Balca´zar-Lo´pez E, Sa´nchezCarbente MdR, et al. (2017) Characterization of lignocellulolytic activities from fungi isolated from the deep-sea sponge Stelletta normani. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173750. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0173750 Editor: Raffaella Balestrini, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, C.N.R., ITALY Received: August 18, 2015 Accepted: February 24, 2017 Published: March 24, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Batista-Garcı´a et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.
Extreme habitats have usually been regarded as a source of microorganisms that possess robust proteins that help enable them to survive in such harsh conditions. The deep sea can be considered an extreme habitat due to low temperatures (
Characterization of lignocellulolytic activities from fungi isolated from the deep-sea sponge Stelletta normani Ramo´n Alberto Batista-Garcı´a1,2, Thomas Sutton3, Stephen A. Jackson3,4, Omar Eduardo Tovar-Herrera5, Edgar Balca´zar-Lo´pez1,2, Marı´a del Rayo Sa´nchez-Carbente2, Ayixon Sa´nchez-Reyes1,2, Alan D. W. Dobson3,4*, Jorge Luis Folch-Mallol2*
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1 Centro de Investigacio´n en Dina´mica Celular, Universidad Auto´noma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 2 Centro de Investigacio´n en Biotecnologı´a, Universidad Auto´noma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 3 School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 4 Marine Biotechnology Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5 Instituto de Biotecnologı´a, Facultad de Ciencias Biolo´gicas, Universidad Auto´noma de Nuevo Leo´n, San Nicola´s de los Garza, Nuevo Leo´n, Mexico * [email protected] (ADWD); [email protected] (JLFM)
Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Batista-Garcı´a RA, Sutton T, Jackson SA, Tovar-Herrera OE, Balca´zar-Lo´pez E, Sa´nchezCarbente MdR, et al. (2017) Characterization of lignocellulolytic activities from fungi isolated from the deep-sea sponge Stelletta normani. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173750. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0173750 Editor: Raffaella Balestrini, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, C.N.R., ITALY Received: August 18, 2015 Accepted: February 24, 2017 Published: March 24, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Batista-Garcı´a et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.
Extreme habitats have usually been regarded as a source of microorganisms that possess robust proteins that help enable them to survive in such harsh conditions. The deep sea can be considered an extreme habitat due to low temperatures (
