“…These valuable biocatalysts have been widely used in various industries such as food (for example, hydrolysis of milk fat and cheese ripening in dairy foods), detergent, pulp and paper (papers with improved quality), fine chemicals (such as resolution of racemic acids and alcohols and regioselective acylations) and oleochemical manufacturing (Salameh and Wiegel, 2007;Sharma et al, 2011;AbdelFattah et al, 2012). Synthesis of biopolymers and biodiesel, resolution of enantio-specific pharmaceuticals and production of agro-chemicals and flavoring compounds are among other biotechnological applications of lipases (Soliman et al, 2007;Yu et al, 2010;Andualema and Gessesse, 2012 [154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164]2015 Because of high demands for the lipases tolerant to extreme conditions, screening of the environments harboring halophilic and thermophilic lipase-producing microbial strains is still a main step for introducing lipolytic enzyme with remarkable properties (Daoud et al, 2013;Masomian et al, 2013). Extremophiles include microorganisms which are able to survive in harsh environmental conditions, such as extremely high or low temperatures, high concentration of salt, severe alkaline or acidic pH, low water activity and high pressure (Salameh and Wiegel, 2007;Moshfegh et al, 2013).…”