Treatment of colored effluents with lignin-degrading enzymes: an emerging role of marine-derived fungi.
Some of the industries that discharge highly colored effluents are paper and pulp mills, textiles and dye-making industries, alcohol distilleries, and leather industries. Terrestrial white-rot basidiomycetous fungi and their lignin-degrading enzymes laccase, manganese-peroxidase and lignin peroxidases are useful in the treatment of colored industrial effluents and other xenobiotics. Free mycelia, mycelial pellets, immobilized fungi or their lignin-degrading enzymes from terrestrial fungi have been reported in treatment of several effluents. Marine obligate or facultative (marine-derived) fungi may have unique properties but have not been explored sufficiently for this purpose. This article presents a critical review of bioremediation potential of such fungi and their lignin-degrading enzymes in comparison with the state-of-the-art in terrestrial white-rot fungi.
Raghukumar
Chandralata
C
National Institute of Oceanography, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Dona Paula, Goa, India. lata@nio.org
D'Souza-Ticlo
Donna
D
Verma
Ashutosh Kumar
AK
D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D005658:Fungi / Q000201:enzymology*; D007220:Industrial Waste; D042845:Laccase / Q000378:metabolism*; D010544:Peroxidases / Q000378:metabolism*; D014877:Water Pollution, Chemical; D018508:Water Purification / Q000379:methods*
D007220:Industrial Waste; D042845:Laccase; D010544:Peroxidases; C042858:lignin peroxidase; C051129:manganese peroxidase