Characterization of the role of esterases in the biodegradation of organophosphate, carbamate, and pyrethroid pesticides

P Bhatt, X Zhou, Y Huang, W Zhang, S Chen - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ester-containing organophosphate, carbamate, and pyrethroid (OCP) pesticides are used
worldwide to minimize the impact of pests and increase agricultural production. The toxicity …

Molecular mechanisms in phytoremediation of environmental contaminants and prospects of engineered transgenic plants/microbes

PK Rai, KH Kim, SS Lee, JH Lee - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Concerns about emerging environmental contaminants have been growing along with
industrialization and urbanization around the globe. Among various options for remediating …

Bacterial remediation of pesticide polluted soils: Exploring the feasibility of site restoration

P Bokade, VK Gaur, V Tripathi, S Bobate… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
For decades, reclamation of pesticide contaminated sites has been a challenging avenue.
Due to increasing agricultural demand, the application of synthetic pesticides could not be …

Enzymes as useful tools for environmental purposes

MA Rao, R Scelza, F Acevedo, MC Diez, L Gianfreda - Chemosphere, 2014 - Elsevier
In the environment enzymes may play important and different roles at least in three cases: as
main agents (as isolated, cell-bound or immobilized enzymes) in charge of either the …

Bioremediation and phytoremediation of pesticides: recent advances

S Hussain, T Siddique, M Arshad… - Critical Reviews in …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The use of genetically modified or native microorganisms and plants to degrade or remove
pollutants has emerged as a powerful technology for in situ remediation. An understanding …

Use of genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMs) for the bioremediation of contaminants

M Urgun-Demirtas, B Stark, K Pagilla - Critical reviews in …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a critical review of the literature on the application of genetically
engineered microorganisms (GEMs) in bioremediation. The important aspects of using …

Genetic and metabolic engineering for microbial production of poly-γ-glutamic acid

M Cao, J Feng, S Sirisansaneeyakul, C Song… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a natural biopolymer of glutamic acid. The repeating units of
γ-PGA may be derived exclusively from d-glutamic acid, or l-glutamic acid, or both. The …

Recent applications of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin technology in bioproduct synthesis and bioremediation

BC Stark, KR Pagilla, KL Dikshit - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2015 - Springer
Since its first use in 1990 to enhance production of α-amylase in E. coli, engineering of
heterologous hosts to express the hemoglobin from the bacterium Vitreoscilla (VHb) has …

Functional display of foreign protein on surface of Escherichia coli using N‐terminal domain of ice nucleation protein

L Li, D Gyun Kang, H Joon Cha - Biotechnology and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the ability of the N‐terminal domain of InaK, an ice nucleation protein from
Pseudomonas syringae KCTC1832, to act as an anchoring motif for the display of foreign …

Cell surface display of organophosphorus hydrolase for sensitive spectrophotometric detection of p-nitrophenol substituted organophosphates

X Tang, B Liang, T Yi, G Manco, A Liu - Enzyme and microbial technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Organophosphates (OPs) widely exist in ecosystem as toxic substances, for which sensitive
and rapid analytical methods are highly requested. In the present work, by using N-terminal …