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Bioremediation mechanisms of combined pollution of PAHs and heavy metals by bacteria and fungi: A mini review.

01 Jan 2017-Bioresource Technology (Bioresour Technol)-Vol. 224, pp 25-33
TL;DR: This paper summarizes the remediation mechanisms of PAHs and heavy metals by microbes via elucidating the interaction mechanisms of heavy metals with heavy metals, PAH/PAHs metabolites with PAHS and PAH’s withheavy metals.
About: This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 351 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bioremediation.
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TL;DR: To uncover the underneath, heavy metal bioremediation technologies as well as their detoxification pathways are summarized in this review, which will contribute to find their interconnections and develop more efficient biore mediation technologies.

372 citations


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  • ...lot to the resistance of microorganisms to heavy metal ions [78]....

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  • ...Amine group in polysaccharides and chitin components contribute a lot to the binding of heavy metals [78]....

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TL;DR: The results showed that the average concentrations of Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn were lower than the secondary standard of soil environmental quality; however, the concentrations of eight metals were higher than background values, and their corresponding enrichment factor values were significantly greater than 1.

325 citations

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Huaqing Qin1, Tianjue Hu1, Yunbo Zhai1, Ningqin Lu1, Jamila Aliyeva1 
TL;DR: It is thought that intracellular autogenous nanomaterials may open up another window in biosorption of heavy metals area and the combination of various treatment methods will be the development tendency of heavy metal pollution treatment in the future.

204 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the bioremediation applications of combined contaminated soil with heavy metals and pesticides and proposed the future investigations required for this field, based on which the effectiveness evaluation methods of soil remediation are also reviewed.

190 citations

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TL;DR: The usefulness of biosurfactants in the removal of environmental contaminants and, consequently, expanding environmental safety and drive towards greener technology is confers.

186 citations

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TL;DR: The biodegradation of PAHs has been observed under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions and the rate can be enhanced by physical/chemical pretreatment of contaminated soil.

2,482 citations


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  • ...…repairing PAHs and heavy metal pollution, usually contains 192 resistance genes or degradation genes, which can be separated and recombined by 193 genomic approaches for the purpose of enhancing the remediation efficiency 194 (Farmer et al., 2003; Haritash and Kaushik, 2009; Mahmoudi et al., 2011)....

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TL;DR: The biosorbents widely used for heavy metal removal were reviewed, mainly focusing on their cellular structure, biosorption performance, their pretreatment, modification, regeneration/reuse, modeling of biosor adaptation (isotherm and kinetic models), the development of novel biosorbent, their evaluation, potential application and future.

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  • ...And electrostatic interactions and 172 other proton competition will affect the binding strength (Benedetti et al., 1995; 173 Wang and Chen, 2009)....

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  • ...Furthermore, heavy metals can 338 disturb the cell homeostasis by penetrating through the cell wall and oxidizing the 339 surface proteins on membrane (Wang and Chen, 2009; Gauthier et al., 2014)....

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TL;DR: This review outlined the latest applications of iron oxide nanomaterials in wastewater treatment, and gaps which limited their large-scale field applications, as well as the outlook for potential applications and further challenges.

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TL;DR: The prepared MMWCNT adsorbent displayed the main advantage of separation convenience compared to the present adsorption treatment and was well fitted by a pseudo second-order model.

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"Bioremediation mechanisms of combin..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Besides, the intermediates of PAHs such as salicylic 311 acid can also impact the microbial cell metabolism, thus affecting the adsorption 312 capacity of heavy metals (Gong et al., 2009; Guo et al., 2015)....

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Min Cheng1, Guangming Zeng1, Danlian Huang1, Cui Lai1, Piao Xu1, Chen Zhang1, Yang Liu1 
TL;DR: In this article, a general overview on the application of AOPs to pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPHs) contaminated soils remediation is provided.

847 citations


"Bioremediation mechanisms of combin..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Most of PAHs are recalcitrant in environment owing to the 43 high resistance to nucleophilic attack (Zhang et al., 2006) and the properties of low 44 bioavailability (Cheng et al., 2016)....

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