Organophosphate compounds and their biodegradation; using enzymes as an increased efficiency approach

Electro-Oxidation as an Effective Process for Removing Antibiotics and Persistent Organic Compounds Resistant to Biodegradation

a review on biodegradation of toxic organophosphate compounds

daily, organophosphorus compounds (ops) in human life, has found wide applications. although ops have biodegradability potential, they induce clinical problems in humans and other organism. different methods are used to detoxify these compounds. in the meantime, biodegradation is preferred as a compatible way to the environment since it produces less toxic compounds. enzymes capable to degrade ...

Biodegradation of Xenobiotic Compounds: An Overview

The continuous accumulation of recalcitrant xenobiotic compounds into the ecosystem released from various sources caused a serious global concern. Xenobiotics compounds are carcinogenic, mutagenic, causing teratogenic effect and persist over a long period of time in the environment. Therefore there is an urgent need for the detoxification of these compounds. Biodegradation is a technique that e...

detection of volatile compounds of medicinal plants with some nano-sorbents using modified or new methodologies and investigation of antioxidant activity of their methanolic extracts

in this work, a novel and fast method for direct analysis of volatile compounds (davc) of medicinal plants has been developed by holding a filament from different parts of a plant in the gc injection port. the extraction and analysis of volatile components of a small amount of plant were carried out in one-step without any sample preparation. after optimization of temperature, extraction time a...

Diversity of Ligninolytic Enzymes and Their Genes in Strains of the Genus Ganoderma: Applicable for Biodegradation of Xenobiotic Compounds?

White-rot fungi (WRF) and their ligninolytic enzymes (laccases and peroxidases) are considered promising biotechnological tools to remove lignin related Persistent Organic Pollutants from industrial wastewaters and contaminated ecosystems. A high diversity of the genus Ganoderma has been reported in Cuba; in spite of this, the diversity of ligninolytic enzymes and their genes remained unexplore...

Enhanced biodegradation of toxic organophosphate compounds using recombinant Escherichia coli with sec pathway-driven periplasmic secretion of organophosphorus hydrolase.

Although Escherichia coli can be genetically engineered to degrade environmental toxic organophosphate compounds (OPs) to nontoxic materials, a critical problem in such whole cell systems is limited substrate diffusion. The present work examined whether periplasmic expression of organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH) resulted in better whole cell enzymatic activity compared to standard cytosolic expr...