Metagenomic mining for esterases in the microbial community of los rueldos acid mine drainage formation

This study was conducted under the auspices of the FuturEnzyme Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101000327. We acknowledge financial support under Grants PCIN-2017-078 (within the Marine Biotechnology ERA-NET, GA No. 604814) (MF), BIO2017-85522-R (MF), PID2020-112758RB-I00 (MF), PID2019-106370RB-I00 (VG), and PDC2021-121534-I00 (MF) from the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (Doi: 10.13039/501100011033), Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) and the European Union (“NextGenerationEU/PRTR”), and Grant 2020AEP061 (MF) from the Agencia Estatal CSIC. OG acknowledges the support of the Centre for Environmental Biotechnology Project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) via the Welsh Government. SR thanks the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for a Ph.D. fellowship (FPU19/00608).