| Literature DB >> 30527644 |
Baotong Zhu1, Yingying Chen1, Na Wei2.
Abstract
The challenges of increasing environmental contamination and scarcity of natural resources require innovative solutions to ensure a sustainable future. Recent breakthroughs in synthetic biology and protein engineering provide promising platform technologies to develop novel engineered biological materials for beneficial applications towards environmental sustainability. In particular, biocatalysis and biosorption are receiving increasing attention as sustainable approaches for environmental remediation and resource recovery from wastes. This review focuses on up-to-date advances in engineering biocatalytic and biosorptive materials that can degrade persistent organic contaminants of emerging concern, remove hazardous metal pollutants, and recover value-added metals. Opportunities and challenges for future research are also discussed.Keywords: biocatalysis; biosorption; environmental remediation; enzymes; metal-binding proteins and peptides; resource recovery
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Year: 2018 PMID： 30527644 DOI： 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.11.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Biotechnol ISSN： 0167-7799 Impact factor: 19.536