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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Aptitude of Oxidative Enzymes for Treatment of Wastewater Pollutants: A Laccase Perspective.

John O Unuofin, Anthony I Okoh, Uchechukwu U Nwodo

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
23.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 158 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

John O UnuofinSAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa. junuofin@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8096-1156
Anthony I OkohSAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa. AOkoh@ufh.ac.za.ORCID 0000-0002-9770-085X
Uchechukwu U NwodoSAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa. UNwodo@ufh.ac.za.
University of Fort Hare · ZA

Funding

Govan Mbeki Research and Development Center N/ASouth African Medical Research Council N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural water sources are very often contaminated by municipal wastewater discharges which contain either of xenobiotic pollutants and their sometimes more toxic degradation products, or both, which frustrates the universal millenium development goal of provision of the relatively scarce pristine freshwater to water-scarce and -stressed communities, in order to augment their socioeconomic well-being. Seeing that both regulatory measures, as regards the discharge limits of wastewater, and the query for efficient treatment methods remain unanswered, partially, the prospects of enzymatic treatment of wastewater is advisable. Therefore, a reconsideration was assigned to the possible capacity of oxidative enzymes and the respective challenges encountered during their applications in wastewater treatment, and ultimately, the prospects of laccase, a polyphenol oxidase that oxidizes aromatic and inorganic substrates with electron-donating groups in treatment aromatic contaminants of wastewater, in real wastewater situations, since it is assumed to be a vehicle for a greener community. Furthermore, the importance of laccase-driven catalysis toward maintaining mass-energy balance, hence minimizing environmental waste, was comprehensibly elucidated, as well the strategic positioning of laccase in a model wastewater treatment facility for effective treatment of wastewater contaminants.

Indexed as

Oxidation-ReductionWater PurificationCatalysisEnzymesGreen Chemistry TechnologyLaccaseMolecular StructureSubstrate SpecificityWastewaterWater Pollutants, ChemicalEnzymesLaccaseWastewaterWater Pollutants, Chemicalenvironomicslaccaseoxidative enzymeswastewater pollutantswastewater treatment

Identifiers

PMID31151229
PMCPMC6600482
OpenAlexW2947571885

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