Role of Microbial Enzymes in the Bioremediation of Pollutants: A Review

By C. Karigar, S. S. Rao. Enzyme Research, 2011

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A large number of enzymes from bacteria, fungi, and plants have been reported to be involved in the biodegradation of toxic organic pollutants. Bioremediation is a cost effective and nature friendly biotechnology that is powered by microbial enzymes. The research activity in this area would contribute towards developing advanced bioprocess technology to reduce the toxicity of the pollutants and also to obtain novel useful substances. The information on the mechanisms of bioremediation-related enzymes such as oxido-reductases and hydrolases have been extensively studied. This review attempts to provide descriptive information on the enzymes from various microorganisms involved in the biodegradation of wide range of pollutants, applications, and suggestions required to overcome the limitations of their efficient use.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Chemical transformation of xenobiotics by the human gut microbiota (2017, background): “It may also become possible to use gut microbial metabolism to help remove harmful compounds from the body and prevent disease, analogous to bioremediation of polluted environments (127).”
• Microbial bio transformation: a process for chemical alterations (2017, background): “Microbial biotransformation is widely used in the transformation of various pollutants or a large variety of compounds including hydrocarbons, pharmaceutical substances and metals [7].”
• Microbial Enzymes Used in Bioremediation (2021, background): “Lipolytic reactions occur at the lipid-water interface, where lipolytic substrates usually form an equilibrium between monomeric, micellar, and emulsified states [3].”
• The role of microorganisms in achieving the sustainable development goals (2018, background): “(Jang et al., 2017) (Barber (cid:1) an et al., 2016; Chawla and Cushing, 2007; Dewan et al., 2010; Tilbury, 1995) (Atlas and Philip, 2005; Ayotamuno et al., 2006; Karigar and Rao, 2011; Rajendran et al., 2003; Rosenberg and Ron, 1996”
• Application of microorganisms in bioremediation-review (2018, background): “Tyromyces palustris, Gloeophyllum trabeum, Trametes versicolor hydrocarbons [31]”
• Microbial enzymes: industrial progress in 21st century (2016, methodology): “The detoxification of toxic organic compounds through oxidative coupling is mediated with oxidoreductases (Karigar and Rao 2011).”
• Biotechnological advances in bioremediation of heavy metals contaminated ecosystems: an overview with special reference to phytoremediation (2014, background): “…by their mutagenic ability (Seth et al. 2007, 2008), while on the other hand its approach on bioremediation would contribute toward developing advanced bioprocess technology to reduce the toxicity of the pollutants and also to obtain novel useful biomaterials (Leung 2004; Karigar and Rao 2011).”
• BTEX biodegradation in contaminated groundwater using a novel strain (Pseudomonas sp. BTEX-30) (2017, background): “For example, it has long been recognized that normal biodegradation or co-metabolism of BTEX compounds generally initiated by mono or dioxygenase enzymes (El-Naas et al., 2014; Karigar and Rao, 2011; Li et al., 2014).”