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ClearApplications of Marine-Derived Microorganisms and Their Enzymes in Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, the Underexplored Potentials
This review examines marine-derived microorganisms and their enzymes as sources of novel biocatalysts for industrial biotransformation, covering whole-cell processes and isolated enzymes from marine bacteria and fungi capable of performing oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis, and other organic synthesis reactions under extreme conditions.
Harnessing Marine Biocatalytic Reservoirs for Green Chemistry Applications through Metagenomic Technologies
This review examines how metagenomic technologies can unlock novel biocatalysts from marine environments to advance green chemistry applications across industrial sectors. Researchers discuss how marine-derived lipases and esterases identified through metagenomics can improve reaction efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and cut waste in chemical manufacturing.
Marine Bacteria for Bioremediation of Polluted Marine Environments: A Blue Revolution Approach
This review explored how marine bacteria can be harnessed to bioremediate polluted ocean environments contaminated with hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and microplastics. The authors found that marine bacteria offer cost-effective and ecologically compatible remediation potential but that practical deployment at scale remains a major challenge.
Marine Bacteria for Bioremediation of Polluted Marine Environments: A Blue Revolution Approach
This review explored how marine bacteria can be harnessed to bioremediate polluted ocean environments contaminated with hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and microplastics. The authors found that marine bacteria offer cost-effective and ecologically compatible remediation potential but that practical deployment at scale remains a major challenge.
Emerging Technologies for the Discovery of Novel Diversity in Cyanobacteria and Algae and the Elucidation of Their Valuable Metabolites
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper reviews emerging biotechnology and omics methods for discovering new cyanobacteria and microalgae species and characterizing their bioactive metabolites for industrial applications.
Current Status and Potential Applications of Underexplored Prokaryotes
This review highlights the gap between well-studied common bacteria and the vast majority of underexplored prokaryotes that are difficult to cultivate. Better tools to study rare microorganisms could unlock new applications in medicine, biotechnology, and environmental monitoring.
Biodiversity of Secondary Metabolites Compounds Isolated from Phylum Actinobacteria and Its Therapeutic Applications
This review summarizes the biodiversity of secondary metabolites produced by Actinobacteria across diverse ecological environments, including marine, terrestrial, and extreme habitats. Researchers found that these bacteria produce a wide range of bioactive compounds with potential pharmaceutical applications, including antimicrobial, antitumor, and anti-inflammatory properties. The study highlights the importance of exploring underinvestigated environments for discovering novel natural products.
Marine-derived fungi as biocatalysts
This review examines marine-derived fungi as catalysts for biotransformations, highlighting their ability to produce enzymes adapted to extreme marine conditions that have applications in producing high-value compounds relevant to pharmaceutical and environmental remediation industries.
Functional responses of key marine bacteria to environmental change – toward genetic counselling for coastal waters
This review examined the functional responses of key marine bacteria to environmental stressors including nutrient pollution and chemical contamination in coastal ecosystems, arguing that bacteria are overlooked both as indicators and mediators of ecosystem health. The authors call for incorporating bacterial functional metrics into marine ecosystem monitoring and management frameworks.
Prokaryotic Diversity and Community Patterns in Antarctic Continental Shelf Sponges
Antarctic sponges were found to host diverse communities of bacteria, some of which produce potentially useful bioactive compounds. This is a microbial ecology study not directly related to microplastics.
Insight into the multifactorial effect of climate change on marine bacteria: resilience mechanisms and mitigation strategies
This review examines how multiple climate change factors — including ocean acidification, warming, deoxygenation, and anthropogenic pollutants including microplastics — interact to affect marine bacteria and their roles in biogeochemical cycling. The authors synthesize resilience mechanisms employed by marine bacteria and discuss mitigation strategies to preserve microbial ecosystem functions under accelerating environmental change.
The Essentials of Marine Biotechnology
This comprehensive article reviews the field of marine biotechnology, which harnesses ocean organisms for applications in medicine, food, cosmetics, agriculture, and energy. Researchers describe the enormous diversity of marine life, from microorganisms to deep-sea species, and the promising biomolecules they produce. The study outlines both the opportunities and the environmental responsibilities involved in developing products inspired by or derived from marine resources.
The Role Of Bacteria In Microplastic Bioremediation And Implications For Marine Ecosystems
This literature review summarizes how bacteria can be harnessed through bioremediation to break down microplastics in marine environments, cataloging the bacterial species and mechanisms involved. While biological degradation is slow and not yet a practical cleanup solution at scale, identifying effective bacteria is an important step toward developing tools to reduce the long-term accumulation of microplastics in ocean ecosystems.
Production and characterisation of a marine Halomonas surface-active exopolymer
Researchers isolated a marine bacterium called Halomonas that produces a natural emulsifying compound capable of breaking down a wide range of oils and hydrocarbons, and found this compound also helped other bacteria degrade pollutants, making it a promising tool for cleaning up oil-contaminated marine environments without synthetic chemicals.
Microbes as Biocatalysts of Marine Micropollutants
This review examines how marine microorganisms can serve as biocatalysts to break down micropollutants including industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics in ocean environments. The study highlights advances in synthetic biology and genomics that are improving microbial efficiency for targeted bioremediation, while noting the need for cooperation among scientists, policymakers, and industry to address implementation challenges.
Bioprospecting for polyesterase activity relevant for PET degradation in marine Enterobacterales isolates
Researchers screened marine Enterobacterales isolates for polyesterase activity capable of degrading PET plastic, identifying bacterial strains from marine environments as candidates for bioremediation strategies targeting one of the world's most problematic plastic pollutants.
Prospecting Microbial Strains for Bioremediation and Probiotics Development for Metaorganism Research and Preservation
This review examines bioremediation approaches for cleaning up marine pollution, particularly in coral reef ecosystems. Some microbes that degrade plastic or associated chemicals could be selected as probiotics for coral restoration, though much research remains before field application.
Technological Advancements in Field Investigations of Marine Microorganisms: From Sampling Strategies to Molecular Analyses
This is not a microplastics study; it reviews advances in field sampling and molecular analysis methods for studying marine microorganisms, covering omics technologies and in-situ sampling strategies for understanding ocean biogeochemical processes.
Enrichment Pretreatment Expands the Microbial Diversity Cultivated from Marine Sediments
Researchers tested whether enrichment culturing techniques expand the diversity of bacteria recovered from marine sediments, finding that enrichment can uncover previously uncultured species even though it favors certain taxa. Understanding marine microbial diversity matters for bioremediation of pollutants including microplastics in ocean sediments.
A Review on Enzymatic Response to Salt Stress and Genomic/Metagenomic Analysis of Adaptation Protein in Hypersaline Environment
This review examines how microorganisms survive in high-salt environments, focusing on the enzymes and genes that help them cope with osmotic stress. Understanding salt-tolerant microbes is relevant to bioremediation of polluted environments, including those contaminated with plastics or chemical waste.
Comparative whole-genome approach to identify bacterial traits for microbial interactions
A genome-based trait analysis of 473 marine bacterial species was developed to systematically map the functional and interaction potential of marine microbial communities. The findings advance understanding of how marine bacteria function, with relevance to how microbial communities respond to plastic pollution in the ocean.
Shotgun Metagenomic insights into the Plastisphere microbiome: Unveiling potential for clinical and industrial enzymes production along with plastic degradation
Researchers used shotgun metagenomic sequencing to analyze microbial communities (plastisphere) colonizing plastic debris in soil and aquatic environments, finding that 54% of bacteria had plastic-degrading potential and that the plastisphere also harbored clinically relevant and industrially useful enzymes. The findings suggest the plastisphere is a reservoir of both plastic-degrading and biotechnologically valuable microorganisms.
Isolation, Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activity of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from Marine Sponge-Associated Bacteria
This paper is not about microplastics; it screens bacteria isolated from Red Sea and Mediterranean marine sponges for antimicrobial and anticancer compounds, identifying extracts with activity against hepatocellular carcinoma, breast cancer, and colon cancer cell lines.
Exploring the Microdiversity Within Marine Bacterial Taxa: Toward an Integrated Biogeography in the Southern Ocean
Researchers used advanced sequencing techniques to study the fine-scale diversity and geographic distribution of bacteria in the Southern Ocean. Understanding ocean microbial communities is relevant to microplastic research because plastics in the ocean host distinct microbial communities that can alter local ecology.