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ClearMicrobial 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.
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.
Eco-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.
Biologics in synergy to degrade target micropollutants
This review describes how biological agents—bacteria, fungi, and engineered enzymes—can be combined to break down a range of environmental pollutants, including microplastics, chlorinated solvents, and pharmaceuticals. The emphasis on enzyme discovery and microbial consortia points toward scalable, low-emission alternatives to incineration or chemical treatment for tackling complex pollution mixtures.
Biologics in synergy to degrade target micropollutants
This review describes how biological agents—bacteria, fungi, and engineered enzymes—can be combined to break down a range of environmental pollutants, including microplastics, chlorinated solvents, and pharmaceuticals. The emphasis on enzyme discovery and microbial consortia points toward scalable, low-emission alternatives to incineration or chemical treatment for tackling complex pollution mixtures.
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.
Immobilized enzyme/microorganism complexes for degradation of microplastics: A review of recent advances, feasibility and future prospects
This review examined advances in immobilized enzyme and microorganism complexes for microplastic degradation, evaluating various nanomaterial supports and highlighting the feasibility and future prospects of enzymatic approaches to removing microplastics from the environment.
Advances and Feasibility of Biocatalytic Technologies for Dye Removal
This review examines advances in biocatalytic technologies for treating dye-containing wastewater, focusing on enzyme immobilization techniques using materials like nanoparticles and biopolymers. Researchers found that immobilized enzymes such as laccase and peroxidase show improved stability and reusability for breaking down dye pollutants. The study suggests that biocatalytic approaches offer an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional chemical wastewater treatments.
Recent Advances in Enzyme Immobilisation Strategies: An Overview of Techniques and Composite Carriers
This review covers recent advances in enzyme immobilization, a technique where enzymes are attached to solid materials to make them reusable and more stable for industrial applications. Researchers describe various methods including adsorption, cross-linking, and entrapment, along with emerging composite carrier materials that improve performance. While not focused on microplastics specifically, the technology has applications in biodegradation of plastics and environmental remediation.
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.
Eco-Solutions to Microplastic Pollution: Advances in Bioremediation Technologies
This review surveys bioremediation technologies, including microbial and plant-based approaches, as potential solutions for removing microplastics from the environment. Researchers highlight promising organisms and enzymatic pathways while noting that practical, scalable applications remain in early development.
Impact of Microplastics on the Environment and Human/Animal Health and Their Enzymatic Removal
This review covers the environmental and health impacts of microplastics across ecosystems and discusses enzymatic degradation approaches, examining how identified plastic-degrading enzymes could be engineered or deployed at scale to reduce MP persistence in the environment.
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.
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.
Advances in immobilized enzyme systems for enhanced microplastic biodegradation: A review
This review examines immobilised enzyme systems as enhanced tools for microplastic biodegradation, covering how immobilisation on various carriers improves enzyme stability, reusability, and cost-effectiveness compared to free enzymes. It evaluates progress toward industrial-scale bioremediation of plastic pollution.
Bioremediation for Environmental Pollutants
This book chapter reviews bioremediation techniques for removing hazardous chemicals from contaminated soil and water, covering heavy metals, dyes, and other industrial pollutants. Bioremediation approaches including microbial and plant-based methods are also being explored for removing microplastics from contaminated environments.
Synthetic biology tools for environmental protection
Researchers reviewed how synthetic biology — engineering microbes and plants with new genetic capabilities — is being applied to detect and remove environmental pollutants, from heavy metals to plastics to industrial chemicals. These genetically engineered "living sensors and cleaners" represent a promising frontier for addressing pollution that conventional treatment methods struggle to handle.
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.
Microbial enzyme power: Breaking down microplastics for a cleaner planet
This review examines how microbial enzymes produced by bacteria, fungi, and algae can break down and degrade microplastic polymers. The study suggests that enzymatic biodegradation represents a promising and more sustainable alternative to conventional microplastic removal methods, though further research is needed to improve enzyme efficiency and scalability.
A critical review on advanced molecular tools for bioremediation
This critical review examined advanced molecular tools being developed for bioremediation of environmental pollutants, including microplastics, pesticides, heavy metals, and volatile organic compounds. The study highlights how emerging genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic techniques are improving the effectiveness of biological approaches to breaking down persistent contaminants in the environment.
A concept for the biotechnological minimizing of emerging plastics, micro- and nano-plastics pollutants from the environment: A review.
This review examined biotechnological strategies for remediating plastics, micro-, and nano-plastics from the environment, cataloguing microbial and enzymatic degradation approaches, discussing their mechanistic basis, and proposing an integrated biotechnology framework for minimizing plastic pollution across terrestrial and aquatic systems.
Nano-biotechnology, an applicable approach for sustainable future
Researchers reviewed how nanobiotechnology—combining nanotechnology with biological systems—has improved efficiency across medical drug delivery, environmental remediation, agricultural applications, and industrial enzyme processes, with nano-scale materials enabling precision and reduced side effects compared to conventional methods.
Enzyme-immobilized hierarchically porous covalent organic framework biocomposite for catalytic degradation of broad-range emerging pollutants in water
Researchers developed an enzyme-immobilized covalent organic framework biocomposite that achieved high enzyme loading with minimal leaching, enabling efficient catalytic degradation of a broad range of emerging water pollutants including microplastics and pharmaceuticals.
Advances in microplastic mitigation: current progress and future directions
This review synthesizes recent advances in biotechnology-based approaches to microplastic remediation, including microbial degradation, engineered enzyme systems, and AI-driven monitoring. Researchers found that while promising enzymes and engineered biofilm systems have been demonstrated in the lab, translating these solutions to diverse polymer types and real-world field applications remains a major challenge. The study proposes a unified roadmap for scaling sustainable biotechnology solutions to address the global microplastic crisis.