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Fungal bioproducts for petroleum hydrocarbons and toxic metals remediation: recent advances and emerging technologies

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Petroleum hydrocarbons and toxic metals are sources of environmental contamination and are harmful to all ecosystems. Fungi have metabolic and morphological plasticity that turn them into potential prototypes for technological development in biological remediation of these contaminants due to their ability to interact with a specific contaminant and/or produced metabolites. Although fungal bioinoculants producing enzymes, biosurfactants, polymers, pigments and organic acids have potential to be protagonists in mycoremediation of hydrocarbons and toxic metals, they can still be only adjuvants together with bacteria, microalgae, plants or animals in such processes. However, the sudden accelerated development of emerging technologies related to the use of potential fungal bioproducts such as bioinoculants, enzymes and biosurfactants in the remediation of these contaminants, has boosted fungal bioprocesses to achieve higher performance and possible real application. In this review, we explore scientific and technological advances in bioprocesses related to the production and/or application of these potential fungal bioproducts when used in remediation of hydrocarbons and toxic metals from an integral perspective of biotechnological process development. In turn, it sheds light to overcome existing technological limitations or enable new experimental designs in the remediation of these and other emerging contaminants.

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Abbreviations

PAH:

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

AMF:

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

NO3 :

Nitrate

SO4 :

Sulfate

CO2 :

Carbon dioxide

H2O:

Water

GC–MS:

Mass spectrometry coupled to gas chromatography

CYP:

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases

Eh:

Redox potential

HBT:

1-Hydroxybenzotriazole

ABTS:

2:2′-Azino-bis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)

ROS:

Reactive oxygen species

NER:

Non-extractable residues

CMC:

Critical micelle concentration (CMC)

SL:

Sophorolipids

MEL:

Mannosylerythritol lipids

PL:

Polyol lipids

RBBR:

Remazol brilliant blue R

CTAB:

Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide

DCPIP:

2:6-Dichlorophenol indophenol

CG:

Gas chromatography

MIC:

Minimum inhibitory concentration

AAS:

Atomic absorption spectrometry

ITS:

Internal Transcript Spacer

DGGE:

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis

FISH:

Fluorescence in situ hybridization 

T-RFLP:

Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

STR:

Stirred tank reactors

CaCO3 :

Calcium carbonate

Na5P3O10 :

Sodium tripolyphosphate

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da Silva, A.F., Banat, I.M., Robl, D. et al. Fungal bioproducts for petroleum hydrocarbons and toxic metals remediation: recent advances and emerging technologies. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 46, 393–428 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-022-02763-3

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