ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2018
Extremophilic Microfactories: Applications in Metal and Radionuclide Bioremediation.
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- Extremophilic Microorganisms for the Treatment of Toxic Pollutants in the Environment.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Exploitation of Potential Extremophiles for Bioremediation of Xenobiotics Compounds: A Biotechnological Approach.Current genomics · 2020Review
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- Heavy Metal Removal by Bioaccumulation Using Genetically Engineered Microorganisms.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Metals and radionuclides (M&Rs) are a worldwide concern claiming for resilient, efficient, and sustainable clean-up measures aligned with environmental protection goals and global change constraints. The unique defense mechanisms of extremophilic bacteria and archaea have been proving usefulness towards M&Rs bioremediation. Hence, extremophiles can be viewed as microfactories capable of providing specific and controlled services (i.e., genetic/metabolic mechanisms) and/or products (e.g., biomolecules) for that purpose. However, the natural physiological plasticity of such extremophilic microfactories can be further explored to nourish different hallmarks of M&R bioremediation, which are scantly approached in the literature and were never integrated. Therefore, this review not only briefly describes major valuable extremophilic pathways for M&R bioremediation, as it highlights the advances, challenges and gaps from the interplay of 'omics' and biological engineering to improve extremophilic microfactories performance for M&R clean-up. Microfactories' potentialities are also envisaged to close the M&R bioremediation processes and shift the classical idea of never 'getting rid' of M&Rs into making them 'the belle of the ball' through bio-recycling and bio-recovering techniques.
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