PMID- 28265269
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 1664-302X (Print)
IS  - 1664-302X (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-302X (Linking)
VI  - 8
DP  - 2017
TI  - Marine-Derived Biocatalysts: Importance, Accessing, and Application in Aromatic 
      Pollutant Bioremediation.
PG  - 265
LID - 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00265 [doi]
LID - 265
AB  - The aim of the present review is to highlight the potential use of marine 
      biocatalysts (whole cells or enzymes) as an alternative bioprocess for the 
      degradation of aromatic pollutants. Firstly, information about the 
      characteristics of the still underexplored marine environment and the available 
      scientific tools used to access novel marine-derived biocatalysts is provided. 
      Marine-derived enzymes, such as dioxygenases and dehalogenases, and the involved 
      catalytic mechanisms for the degradation of aromatic and halogenated compounds, 
      are presented, with the purpose of underpinning their potential use in 
      bioremediation. Emphasis is given on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that 
      are organic compounds with significant impact on health and environment due to 
      their resistance in degradation. POPs bioaccumulate mainly in the fatty tissue of 
      living organisms, therefore current efforts are mostly focused on the restriction 
      of their use and production, since their removal is still unclear. A brief 
      description of the guidelines and criteria that render a pollutant POP is given, 
      as well as their potential biodegradation by marine microorganisms by surveying 
      recent developments in this rather unexplored field.
FAU - Nikolaivits, Efstratios
AU  - Nikolaivits E
AD  - Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School 
      of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens Athens, Greece.
FAU - Dimarogona, Maria
AU  - Dimarogona M
AD  - Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School 
      of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens Athens, Greece.
FAU - Fokialakis, Nikolas
AU  - Fokialakis N
AD  - Division of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, Department of 
      Pharmacy, University of Athens Athens, Greece.
FAU - Topakas, Evangelos
AU  - Topakas E
AD  - Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School 
      of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens Athens, Greece.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20170220
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Microbiol
JT  - Frontiers in microbiology
JID - 101548977
PMC - PMC5316534
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - biocatalysis
OT  - bioremediation
OT  - marine enzymes
OT  - marine microorganisms
OT  - persistent organic pollutants
EDAT- 2017/03/08 06:00
MHDA- 2017/03/08 06:01
PMCR- 2017/02/20
CRDT- 2017/03/08 06:00
PHST- 2016/09/08 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/02/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/03/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/03/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/03/08 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/02/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00265 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Microbiol. 2017 Feb 20;8:265. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00265. eCollection 
      2017.