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ClearEco-Friendly Biocatalysts: Laccase Applications, Innovations, and Future Directions in Environmental Remediation
This review examines how laccase enzymes, naturally produced by fungi and other organisms, can be used as eco-friendly biocatalysts for breaking down environmental pollutants. Researchers highlight advances in enzyme immobilization and nanotechnology that have improved laccase stability and reusability for treating dyes, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and microplastic additives. The study explores hybrid systems that combine laccase with other treatment technologies to achieve more complete pollutant breakdown.
Potential of Laccase as a Tool for Biodegradation of Wastewater Micropollutants
This review evaluates the potential of laccase enzymes, primarily from fungi and bacteria, to break down micropollutants in wastewater including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and endocrine-disrupting compounds. Researchers found that laccase-based treatments offer an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional chemical methods for removing these contaminants. The study also discusses how immobilizing laccases on support materials can improve their stability and reusability in water treatment systems.
Oxidoreductases as a versatile biocatalytic tool to tackle pollutants for clean environment – a review
This review assessed oxidoreductase enzymes — including laccases, peroxidases, and oxidases — as biocatalytic tools for degrading emerging pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and estrogens, evaluating reaction mechanisms and prospects for industrial-scale environmental remediation.
Enhanced degradation of microplastics by laccase under ambient conditions: Analysis of underlying molecular mechanisms
This study demonstrated that the enzyme laccase can degrade three types of microplastics — polyethylene (PE), PET, and PLA — by breaking apart polymer chains and transforming surface chemical groups, with biodegradable PLA showing the highest degradation efficiency. The mechanistic insights into how reactive oxygen species and electron transfer drive enzymatic degradation provide a foundation for developing enzyme-based treatments to remove microplastics from water and soil.
Recent advances in fungal xenobiotic metabolism: enzymes and applications
Researchers reviewed how fungi use powerful enzymes — including laccases, peroxidases, and cytochrome P450s — to break down a wide range of environmental pollutants such as dyes, pesticides, and toxic PFAS "forever chemicals." These natural fungal capabilities are being harnessed for bioremediation to clean up contaminated environments and for producing valuable industrial compounds.
Microbial Degradation of (Micro)plastics: Mechanisms, Enhancements, and Future Directions
This review examines how microorganisms can break down microplastics using enzymes like PETase and laccases, offering a more environmentally friendly alternative to other cleanup methods. While microbial degradation holds promise for reducing microplastic pollution and its associated health risks, current efficiency is too low for large-scale application and needs further improvement.
Microbial Enzymes Used in Bioremediation
This review covers microbial enzymes that can break down environmental pollutants, including some types of plastic polymers. Enzymes like laccases, hydrolases, and lipases show promise for degrading plastics and other harmful substances in the environment. While not focused solely on microplastics, the research suggests that enzyme-based bioremediation could eventually help reduce microplastic pollution in soil and water.
The Role and Application of Microbial Enzymes in Microplastics’ Bioremediation: Available and Future Perspectives
This chapter reviews how microbial enzymes — including PETases, laccases, and cutinases — can break down microplastic polymers in soil and aquatic environments, and how advances in metagenomics and enzyme engineering are accelerating discovery of new plastic-degrading candidates. While promising, the authors note that no enzyme-based solution is yet scalable enough to meaningfully reduce the microplastic burden already present in the environment.
Breakthrough in polyurethane bio-recycling: An efficient laccase-mediated system for the degradation of different types of polyurethanes
A laccase-mediated enzymatic system efficiently degraded multiple types of polyurethane plastics in aqueous solution at mild conditions, breaking polymer chains and reducing molecular weight within days, offering a green biotechnology approach to managing polyurethane waste that conventional recycling and chemical degradation struggle to address.
Recent Application of Enzymes and Microbes in Bioremediation
This review covers recent advances in applying enzymes and microorganisms for bioremediation of environmental pollutants, including microplastics, with a focus on eco-friendly alternatives to conventional chemical or physical treatment methods. The authors highlight promising microbial and enzymatic strategies that reduce secondary pollution and offer cost-effective pathways for cleaning contaminated soil and water.
Coupled Reactive Regulation by Microplastic-Derived Dissolved Organic Matter Sustains Reactive Oxygen Species Cycling in Laccase-Metal Synergy for Continuous Microplastic Degradation
Scientists developed a surface-based system combining a natural enzyme (laccase) with metal ions to generate reactive oxygen species that can break down common plastic polymers including polyethylene and PET. This enzyme-metal synergy offers a promising approach to degrading persistent microplastics in the environment using relatively low-energy, biologically inspired chemistry.
Fungal Laccases: Fundamentals, Engineering and Classification Update
This review covers the structure, catalytic mechanisms, and biotechnological applications of fungal laccases, a group of enzymes capable of oxidizing a wide range of aromatic compounds including lignin. Researchers discuss how protein engineering can enhance these enzymes for industrial applications such as bioremediation and the breakdown of persistent organic pollutants.
Green Strategies for Removal of Emerging Contaminants from Aqueous System
This review examines green strategies for removing emerging contaminants from aqueous systems, evaluating bioremediation, phytoremediation, and eco-friendly nanocomposite approaches for eliminating pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, microplastics, and pesticides from water.
Environmental impact and mitigation of micro(nano)plastics pollution using green catalytic tools and green analytical methods
Researchers reviewed the growing problem of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment, then assessed enzyme-based strategies for breaking them down, finding that enzymes specifically targeting plastic polymer structures offer a promising, sustainable approach to degradation, especially when stabilized on nanomaterials to extend their activity.
Microbial Immobilized Enzyme Biocatalysts for Multipollutant Mitigation: Harnessing Nature’s Toolkit for Environmental Sustainability
This review examines how enzymes from microorganisms can be anchored onto support materials to create reusable tools for breaking down environmental pollutants, including microplastics, pesticides, and pharmaceutical chemicals. Researchers found that immobilizing these enzymes significantly improves their stability and allows them to be used repeatedly, making cleanup processes more cost-effective. The approach represents a promising green technology for tackling multiple types of pollution simultaneously.
A minireview on the bioremediative potential of microbial enzymes as solution to emerging microplastic pollution
This mini review explores the potential of microbial enzymes as a sustainable solution for degrading microplastics, discussing recent advances in identifying plastic-degrading enzymes and the challenges remaining for practical bioremediation applications.
Bioinspired single-atom nanozymes for microplastic degradation
Researchers designed copper single-atom nanozymes inspired by natural laccase enzymes and tested their ability to degrade microplastics. The bioinspired catalysts mineralized more than 90% of microplastic material into non-toxic products. The study presents a promising new strategy for addressing microplastic pollution using engineered nanoscale catalysts.
Degradation potential of various enzymes in bioremediation of toxic contaminants
This review examines the potential of microbial enzymes — including proteases, amylases, lipases, and cellulases — for bioremediation of toxic environmental contaminants such as heavy metals, dyes, petroleum wastes, and oil spills. The authors argue that enzyme-based approaches offer advantages over chemical catalysts in terms of cost, stability, reusability, and ecological safety across industrial and environmental applications.
Microbial degradation of contaminants of emerging concern: metabolic, genetic and omics insights for enhanced bioremediation
This review covers how microorganisms have evolved the ability to break down emerging pollutants including plasticizers, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides, turning them into less harmful substances. Understanding the genes, enzymes, and metabolic pathways these microbes use could lead to cost-effective, eco-friendly cleanup methods for removing persistent contaminants -- including plastic-derived chemicals -- from the environment before they reach people.
Enzymes in the Removal of Harmful Substances: The Potential of Biotechnology in Environmental Protection
This review examines the potential of enzymes as sustainable, highly specific tools for removing harmful environmental pollutants including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, dyes, and microplastics under mild conditions without generating toxic by-products. The authors highlight innovations in enzyme immobilisation, microbial consortia, and hybrid technologies as strategies to enhance efficiency and broaden the practical applicability of biotechnology-based environmental remediation.
Eco-friendly Nanocomposites for the Degradation of Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater Systems
This study investigated eco-friendly nanocomposites for degrading emerging contaminants in wastewater, synthesizing green nanomaterials that can break down pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, and microplastics through advanced oxidation processes under environmentally benign conditions.
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (Nonylphenol and Bisphenol A)–Sources, Harmfulness and Laccase-Assisted Degradation in the Aquatic Environment
This review examined nonylphenol and bisphenol A as endocrine-disrupting compounds entering aquatic environments through wastewater, with focus on laccase-mediated enzymatic degradation as a treatment strategy. Both compounds showed estrogenic activity in aquatic organisms at nanogram to microgram concentrations, and laccase treatment demonstrated potential for their removal.
Purification and Biochemical Characterization of Trametes hirsuta CS5 Laccases and Its Potential in Decolorizing Textile Dyes as Emerging Contaminants
Three laccase isoforms from Trametes hirsuta CS5 were purified and characterized, with the ThII isoform showing the highest catalytic efficiency; all isoforms effectively decolorized synthetic textile dyes, supporting their potential as eco-friendly biocatalysts for treating dye-containing wastewater.
Highly efficient low-temperature biodegradation of polyethylene microplastics by using cold-active laccase cell-surface display system
Researchers developed a cold-active laccase cell-surface display system in E. coli that achieved highly efficient low-temperature biodegradation of polyethylene microplastics, overcoming a key limitation of enzymatic plastic breakdown in cold environments.