ReviewACS ES&T water2021
Methodological Advances to Study Contaminant Biotransformation: New Prospects for Understanding and Reducing Environmental Persistence?
Review in ACS ES&T water, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.
- Enzyme association for environmental biotransformation reactions through contrastive learning of reaction center-specific fingerprints.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Multiscale Computational Enzymology of CYP450 Biotransformation of Organic Halogenated Pollutants: Methods and Environmental Perspectives.ACS omega · 2026Review
- Deciphering the constraints of pure bacterial strains for the complete catabolism of sulfamethoxazole: A proteomic and kinetic study.Biodegradation · 2025Article
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- Presence of Micropollutants and Transformation Products During Subsurface Irrigation with Treated Wastewater Assessed by Non-Target Screening Analysis.ACS ES&T water · 2025Article
- Deciphering the universal role of gut microbiota in pollutant transformation.The ISME journal · 2025Review
- Variability of Biodegradation Rates of Commercial Chemicals in Rivers in Different Regions of Europe.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Enhancing biodegradation of vegetable oil-contaminated soil with soybean texturized waste, spent mushroom substrate, and stabilized poultry litter in microcosm systems.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2024Article
- Persistence of microbiological hazards in food and feed production and processing environments.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2024Article
- A microbial evolutionary approach for a sustainable future.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
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- Special Issue "Microbial Biodegradation and Biotransformation".Microorganisms · 2023Article
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- Elucidating the Role of OACS environmental Au · 2022Article
- To be or not to be degraded: in defense of persistence assessment of chemicals.Environmental science. Processes & impacts · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Complex microbial communities in environmental systems play a key role in the detoxification of chemical contaminants by transforming them into less active metabolites or by complete mineralization. Biotransformation, i.e., transformation by microbes, is well understood for a number of priority pollutants, but a similar level of understanding is lacking for many emerging contaminants encountered at low concentrations and in complex mixtures across natural and engineered systems. Any advanced approaches aiming to reduce environmental exposure to such contaminants (e.g., novel engineered biological water treatment systems, design of readily degradable chemicals, or improved regulatory assessment strategies to determine contaminant persistence
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