Microbial degradation of polyfluoroalkyl chemicals in the environment: a review

J Liu, SM Avendaño - Environment international, 2013 - Elsevier
… , and novel degradation intermediates and products. … biodegradation studies, environmental
monitoring and ecotoxicological assessment of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals. …

A review of microbial degradation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Biotransformation routes and enzymes

A Berhanu, I Mutanda, J Taolin, MA Qaria… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
… Consequently, microbial degradation and enzymatic treatment of PFAS are highly … to microbial
degradation. We discuss latest developments in the biodegradation of PFAS by microbes, …

Biodegradation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): A review

Z Zhang, D Sarkar, JK Biswas, R Datta - Bioresource technology, 2022 - Elsevier
… However, previous literature on PFAS removal through microbial degradation showed
contradicting results, and the biodegradation process is not well understood. For example, certain …

A review: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances—Biological degradation

D Grgas, A Petrina, T Štefanac, D Bešlo… - Toxics, 2023 - mdpi.com
… in microbial degradation of … Polyfluoroalkyl substances are more prone to microbial attack
than perfluoroalkyl compounds. Bacteria, fungi, and enzymes show potential for degradation of …

Degradation and removal methods for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in water

N Merino, Y Qu, RA Deeb, EL Hawley… - Environmental …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Microbial treatment processes Microbial degradation of PFASs has only been observed
to occur with polyfluoroalkyl substances (Butt et al., 2014), which contain some C–H bonds …

Microbial toxicity and biodegradability of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and shorter chain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)

V Ochoa-Herrera, JA Field, A Luna-Velasco… - … Science: Processes & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
… and polyfluoroalkyl surfactants to microbial degradation under well-defined conditions. Based
on previous reports PFOS does not appear to undergo microbial degradation … to microbial

Developing a roadmap to determine per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances-microbial population interactions

DM O'Carroll, TC Jeffries, MJ Lee, ST Le… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
… on microbes and to characterise PFAS biodegradation intensify. Enrichment and cultivation
strategies based on specific microbial … a hit list for biodegradation and toxicity studies into the …

Microbial biotransformation of aqueous film-forming foam derived polyfluoroalkyl substances

YJ Choi, DE Helbling, J Liu, CI Olivares… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
… transformation pathway prediction models (ie, Eawag-PPS, Envipath, etc) are primarily derived
from knowledge of microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for other …

Toward the development of a molecular toolkit for the microbial remediation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances

M Hu, C Scott - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Pesticides, such as triazine herbicides and organophosphate insecticides, were introduced
in the same 1950s and 1930s, respectively, and microbial degradation of these compounds …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the environment

MG Evich, MJB Davis, JP McCord, B Acrey… - Science, 2022 - science.org
… In both studies, enhanced degradation was attributed to the organic carbon content of the
soil, because the addition of carbon sources can increase microbial degradation rates through …