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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tanner, Kristie
• Martorell, Patricia
• Genovés, Salvador
• Ramón, Daniel
• Zacarías, Lorenzo
• Rodrigo, María Jesús
• Peretó, Juli
• Porcar, Manuel

Titel

Bioprospecting the Solar Panel Microbiome: High-Throughput Screening for Antioxidant Bacteria in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model

Ist Teil von

• Frontiers in microbiology, 2019-05, Vol.10, p.986

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Microbial communities that are exposed to sunlight typically share a series of adaptations to deal with the radiation they are exposed to, including efficient DNA repair systems, pigment production and protection against oxidative stress, which makes these environments good candidates for the search of novel antioxidant microorganisms. In this research project, we isolated potential antioxidant pigmented bacteria from a dry and highly-irradiated extreme environment: solar panels. High-throughput assays using as an experimental model demonstrated the high antioxidant and ultraviolet-protection properties of these bacterial isolates that proved to be rich in carotenoids. Our results suggest that solar panels harbor a microbial community that includes strains with potential applications as antioxidants.