Thippeswamy, M and Rajasrerlatha, V and Shubha, D and Niveditha, BT (2020) Metagenomics and future perspectives in discovering pollutant degrading enzymes from soil microbial communities. [Book Chapter]
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Pollutants are often persistent and harmful organic compounds that arise from human activities, industrial wastes that are released in large quantities into terrestrial, fluvial, and marine ecosystems. However, certain microbial species which are naturally exposed to these compounds in their own habitat can degrade a wide range of pollutants, particularly polyaromatic, halogenated, and polyester molecules. These microbes are an immense source of enzymes for pollution detection and for bioremediation. Many of them are found in highly complex environments such as soils, activated sludge, compost, or contaminated water, and over 99 have never been cultured. Thus, meta-omic approaches are well adapted for biocatalyst retrieval from such environmental samples. In this chapter, we report the latest advances in functional metagenomics intended to find enzymes that can act on various types of polluting molecules.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication: | Recent Developments in Applied Microbiology and Biochemistry: Volume 2 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier. |
| Keywords: | Enzymes; Library construction; Metagenomics; Pollutants; Sequencing; Soil microbes |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Biochemistry |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2023 04:13 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2023 04:13 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/79970 |
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