Metagenomics for Bioremediation
(2019) Comprehensive biotechnology — ISBN: [978-0-444-64046-8], published
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Agathos, Spiros N. 
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- Large amounts of toxic contaminants are released in the environment by mining, industrial, agricultural, and urban activities. These are natural compounds (fossil fuels or heavy metals discharged at high concentration) or, more commonly, chemically synthesized compounds (the so-called “xenobiotics”, such as chlorinated, halogenated, or nitroaromatic compounds). Of great concern is also the continuous discharge of various bioactive molecules in the environment (mostly endocrine disruptors and pharmaceutically active compounds), for which there is accumulating evidence of adverse effects on humans and animals. To clean up contaminated sites, one option is to use organisms (mainly bacteria, and also fungi and plants) that can oxidize/ reduce, bind, immobilize, volatize, or transform contaminants.
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George, I. F., Bouhajja, E., & Agathos, S. N. (2019). Metagenomics for Bioremediation. In Murray Moo-Young (ed.) (ed.), Comprehensive biotechnology. Elsevier Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64046-8.00339-6