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Bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives
Chlorophenols (CPs) and their derivatives are persistent environmental pollutants which are used in the manufacture of dyes, drugs, pesticides and other industrial products. CPs, which include monochlorophenols, polychlorophenols, chloronitrophenols, chloroaminophenols and chloromethylphenols, are h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975901/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24589366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2859-13-31 |
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author | Arora, Pankaj Kumar Bae, Hanhong |
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description | Chlorophenols (CPs) and their derivatives are persistent environmental pollutants which are used in the manufacture of dyes, drugs, pesticides and other industrial products. CPs, which include monochlorophenols, polychlorophenols, chloronitrophenols, chloroaminophenols and chloromethylphenols, are highly toxic to living beings due to their carcinogenic, mutagenic and cytotoxic properties. Several physico-chemical and biological methods have been used for removal of CPs from the environment. Bacterial degradation has been considered a cost-effective and eco-friendly method of removing CPs from the environment. Several bacteria that use CPs as their sole carbon and energy sources have been isolated and characterized. Additionally, the metabolic pathways for degradation of CPs have been studied in bacteria and the genes and enzymes involved in the degradation of various CPs have been identified and characterized. This review describes the biochemical and genetic basis of the degradation of CPs and their derivatives. |
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spelling | pubmed-39759012014-04-05 Bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives Arora, Pankaj Kumar Bae, Hanhong Microb Cell Fact Review Chlorophenols (CPs) and their derivatives are persistent environmental pollutants which are used in the manufacture of dyes, drugs, pesticides and other industrial products. CPs, which include monochlorophenols, polychlorophenols, chloronitrophenols, chloroaminophenols and chloromethylphenols, are highly toxic to living beings due to their carcinogenic, mutagenic and cytotoxic properties. Several physico-chemical and biological methods have been used for removal of CPs from the environment. Bacterial degradation has been considered a cost-effective and eco-friendly method of removing CPs from the environment. Several bacteria that use CPs as their sole carbon and energy sources have been isolated and characterized. Additionally, the metabolic pathways for degradation of CPs have been studied in bacteria and the genes and enzymes involved in the degradation of various CPs have been identified and characterized. This review describes the biochemical and genetic basis of the degradation of CPs and their derivatives. BioMed Central 2014-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3975901/ /pubmed/24589366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2859-13-31 Text en Copyright © 2014 Arora and Bae; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Arora, Pankaj Kumar Bae, Hanhong Bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives |
title | Bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives |
title_full | Bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives |
title_fullStr | Bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives |
title_full_unstemmed | Bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives |
title_short | Bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives |
title_sort | bacterial degradation of chlorophenols and their derivatives |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975901/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24589366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2859-13-31 |
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