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Vol. 12 No. Sp2 (2025): Current Trends in Plant Science and Microbiome for Sustainability

Biodiversity and potential applications of halophilic archaeal secondary metabolites

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.6518
Submitted
4 December 2024
Published
25-06-2025

Abstract

Halophilic archaea inhabit extreme ecosystem so their enzymes are also resist to multiple extreme condition which can be utilize as biotechnological application. Pigments, enzymes and secondary metabolites produce by haloarchaea microorganism shows a potential to use in biomedicines, pharmacy and biotechnology process. Several biocompounds produced by haloarchaea like halocins, PHAs/PHBs, carotenoids and enzymes are of high biotechnology interest. Some haloarchaeal species can produce carotenoids, which can be genetically modified or can improve the cultivation parameters to get the high yield product. This haloarchaeal carotenoids show a potential use in biomedicine and by the help of a biotechnological process, its production can be done at large scale. Many halophilic enzymes like esterases, lipases, proteases and glycosyl hydrolases could be used in biotechnological application Halophilic bacteria and highly halophilic archaea which are aerobic or called as haloarchaea, assume a significant role in the industry with a huge number of applications like in food products fermentation, preservatives, cosmetics, manufacturing of bioplastics, artificial retinas, photoelectric devices, holograms, biosensors, etc.

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