An extremozyme is an enzyme, often created by archaea, which are known prokaryotic extremophiles that can function under extreme environments.
[1] This feature makes these enzymes of interest in a variety of hassan biotechnical applications in the energy, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental, food, health, and textile industries.
Due to their unique properties that allow catalytic reactions to occur in a more efficient nature, enzymes were sought after for use in harsh industrial chemical processes in the interest of profits and environmental protection.
After this groundbreaking discovery, he went on to discover more than 20 genera of microbes that grew in nearly the same conditions, two of which are Thermotoga and Aquifex bacteria, while the others were archaea.
In the next few decades, Japan, Russia, France, and other countries searched for microbes with the same kind of extreme novel characteristics as Stetter's.