A. K., Verma and A. K., Nadda and A., Gupta and S., Sharma (2022) Plastic degradation and utilization by microbes: Challenges and scope. In: Enzymes for Pollutant Degradation. Microorganisms for Sustainability, 30 . Springer, Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4574-7_9, pp. 177-192.
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Abstract
After the discovery of plastics in 1950, it has been used expeditiously throughout the world, which leads to its overaccumulation in the ecosystem. Microplastics are widely affecting the life of terrestrials and marine ecosystems. Natural depolymerization of plastics is very slow and progression takes a long time. Physical and chemical methods are quite worthwhile, but the biological plastics degradation has gained an interest in recent decades. In the biological degradation of plastics, the microorganisms attach to the surface of the plastics and the enzymes convert long chain of polymers into non- or less toxic forms. This review summarizes progressive data on microorganisms degrading plastics, physical and chemical methods, mechanisms for biofilm formation onto plastic materials, enhancement of microbial depolymerization by enzymatic catalysis, the engineering of enzymes, pathways modification, and microbiome’s role in plastic depolymerization.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Microbial depolymerization; Biofilms; Biodegradation; Depolymerases; Free radicals |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Pn. Hazlinda Abd Rahman |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2022 04:27 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2022 04:27 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34242 |
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