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Microbial Degradation of Xenobiotics (Hardcover, 2012)
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Microbial Degradation of Xenobiotics (Hardcover, 2012)
Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
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Our interest in the microbial biodegradation of xenobiotics has
increased many folds in recent years to find out sustainable ways
for environmental cleanup. Bioremediation and biotransformation
processes harness the naturally occurring ability of microbes to
degrade, transform or accumulate a wide range of organic
pollutants. Major methodological breakthroughs in recent years
through detailed genomic, metagenomic, proteomic, bioinformatic and
other high-throughput analyses of environmentally relevant
microorganisms have provided us unprecedented insights into key
biodegradative pathways and the ability of organisms to adapt to
changing environmental conditions. The degradation of a wide
spectrum of organic pollutants and wastes discharged into the
environment by anthropogenic activities is an emerging need today
to promote sustainable development of our society with low
environmental impact. Microbial processes play a major role in the
removal of recalcitrant compounds taking advantage of the
astonishing catabolic versatility of microorganisms to degrade or
transform such compounds. New breakthroughs in sequencing,
genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and imaging are generating
vital information which opens a new era providing new insights of
metabolic and regulatory networks, as well as clues to the
evolution of degradation pathways and to the molecular adaptation
strategies to changing environmental conditions. Functional genomic
and metagenomic approaches are increasing our understanding of the
relative importance of different pathways and regulatory networks
to carbon flux in particular environments and for particular
compounds. New approaches will certainly accelerate the development
of bioremediation technologies and biotransformation processes in
coming years for natural attenuation of contaminated environments
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