Table 2.

Important extremozymes and their industrially important properties.

Extremozyme	Source	Microorganism	Property
Lipase	Waters of Baek-du mountain	Acinetobacter baumannii	High activity at low temperatures [72]
	China	Yersinia enterocolitica	Activity over a broad range of temperatures (0–60 °C) [73]
	Saline soil from China	Oceanobacillus rekensis	80% of activity at 10 °C and fairly active in the presence of long-chain alcohols [74]
	Antarctica	Bacillus pumilus	80% of their activity at 10 °C [75]
	Intertidal flat of the Yellow Sea in Korea	Photobacterium lipolyticum	Activity maintained at 5 °C [76]
Protease	Indian ocean	Marinobacter	60% activity is maintained at 80 °C [77]
	Wastewater	Bacillus licheniformis	Optimum temperature at 70 °C and stability towards nonionic and anionic surfactants [78]
α-Amylase	Antarctic ice-shell	Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis	80% of enzyme activity at high NaCl concentrations [79]
	Wastewater	Bacillus licheniformis	Optimum temperature at 90 °C and stability towards nonionic and anionic surfactants [78]