Challenges and opportunities for the biodegradation of chlorophenols: Aerobic, anaerobic and bioelectrochemical processes

K Yang, Y Zhao, M Ji, Z Li, S Zhai, X Zhou, Q Wang… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Chlorophenols (CPs) are highly toxic and refractory contaminants which widely exist in
various environments and cause serious harm to human and environment health and safety …

Can polymer-degrading microorganisms solve the bottleneck of plastics' environmental challenges?

N Delangiz, S Aliyar, N Pashapoor, K Nobaharan… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing world population and industrial activities have enhanced anthropogenic
pollution, plastic pollution being especially alarming. So, plastics should be recycled and/or …

Adaptive laboratory evolution of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 improves p-coumaric and ferulic acid catabolism and tolerance

ET Mohamed, AZ Werner, D Salvachúa… - Metabolic engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is a promising bacterial chassis for the conversion of lignin-
derived aromatic compound mixtures to biofuels and bioproducts. Despite the inherent …

Stimuli-responsive engineered living materials

LK Rivera-Tarazona, ZT Campbell, TH Ware - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive materials are able to undergo controllable changes in materials
properties in response to external cues. Increasing efforts have been directed towards …

Challenges and opportunities in biological funneling of heterogeneous and toxic substrates beyond lignin

AJ Borchert, WR Henson, GT Beckham - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Significant developments in the understanding and manipulation of microbial metabolism
have enabled the use of engineered biological systems toward a more sustainable energy …

Omics approaches to pesticide biodegradation

A Rodríguez, ML Castrejón-Godínez… - Current …, 2020 - Springer
Pesticides are xenobiotic molecules necessary to control pests in agriculture, home, and
industry. However, water and soil can become contaminated as a consequence of their …

Accelerated genome engineering of Pseudomonas putida by I‐SceI―mediated recombination and CRISPR‐Cas9 counterselection

NT Wirth, E Kozaeva, PI Nikel - Microbial Biotechnology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pseudomonas species have become reliable platforms for bioproduction due to their
capability to tolerate harsh conditions imposed by large‐scale bioprocesses and their …

Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change

MR Silverstein, D Segrè… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental microbiome engineering is emerging as a potential avenue for climate
change mitigation. In this process, microbial inocula are introduced to natural microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges of microbial fuel cell architecture on heavy metal recovery and removal from wastewater

L Ezziat, A Elabed, S Ibnsouda… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Being constituents of the effluents of many industries, heavy metals cause severe
environmental pollution given the fact that they are recalcitrant and persistent in the …

Outer membrane vesicles catabolize lignin-derived aromatic compounds in Pseudomonas putida KT2440

D Salvachúa, AZ Werner, I Pardo… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Lignin is an abundant and recalcitrant component of plant cell walls. While lignin
degradation in nature is typically attributed to fungi, growing evidence suggests that bacteria …