Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 9, Pages 10474-10487Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11996-2
Keywords
PCBs; Biodegradation; E-waste; Aerobic; Anaerobic; Enzymatic degradation
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Funding
- Higher Education Commission of Pakistan NRPU projects [7958, 7964]
- Pakistan Academy of Sciences [3-9/PAS/98]
- Pakistan Science Foundation project PSF/Res/CP/C-CUI/Envr [151]
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PCBs, common pollutants in electronic waste, can be effectively removed from the environment through bioremediation. Research has shown that certain bacterial strains are the most proficient PCB degraders under aerobic conditions, while enzymes in soil also have the capability to break down PCBs.
Electronic waste is termed as e-waste and on recycling it produces environmental pollution. Among these e-waste pollutants, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are significantly important due to ubiquitous, organic in nature and serious health and environmental hazards. PCBs are used in different electrical equipment such as in transformers and capacitors for the purposes of exchange of heat and hydraulic fluids. Bioremediation is a reassuring technology for the elimination of the PCBs from the environment. In spite of their chemical stability, there are several microbes which can bio-transform or mineralize the PCBs aerobically or anaerobically. In this review paper, our objective was to summarize the information regarding PCB-degrading enzymes and microbes. The review suggested that the most proficient PCB degraders during anaerobic condition are Dehalobacter, Dehalococcoides, and Desulfitobacterium and in aerobic condition are Burkholderia, Achromobacter, Comamonas, Ralstonia, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, and Alcaligenes etc., showing the broadest substrate among bacterial strains. Enzymes found in soil such as dehydrogenases and fluorescein diacetate (FDA) esterases have the capability to breakdown PCBs. Biphenyl upper pathway involves four enzymes: dehydrogenase (bphB), multicomponent dioxygenase (bphA, E, F, and G), second dioxygenase (bphC), hydrolase, and (bphD). Biphenyl dioxygenase is considered as the foremost enzyme used for aerobic degradation of PCBs in metabolic pathway. It has been proved that several micro-organisms are responsible for the PCB metabolization. The review provides novel strategies for e-waste-contaminated soil management.
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