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Microbes and Enzymes in Soil Health and Bioremediation pp 305–320Cite as

Microbial Degradation of Phenolic Compounds

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Abstract

Human beings use various synthetic products in day-to-day life. The vigorous manufacturing process needs various chemical compounds with different functional groups. Hence, due to human activities several of such molecules (including phenol and its derivatives) were continuously present in the environmental surroundings which have been detected by advanced analytical tools. On the other hand, several reports revealed that most of these contaminants were toxic/hazardous in nature and some of them have consist carcinogenic and mutagenic properties. Hence, many of such contaminants including phenolic compounds were listed in United States Environmental Protection Agency list. For this reason, several researchers took a major step with the aim of detoxification/degradation of such contaminants by various treatment techniques (including biological methods) around the world. Considering this, here, we discuss some of these chemical contaminations and toxic effects and also their degradation/removal by microorganisms.

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    Sikandar I. Mulla

  2. Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China

    Sikandar I. Mulla, Anyi Hu & Chang-Ping Yu

  3. Laboratory of Bioremediation and Metagenomics Research (LBMR), Department of Microbiology (DM), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ram Naresh Bharagava

  4. Department of Life Sciences, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Aquatic Ecosystems Ecology and Planktonology, University of Sfax-Tunisia, FSS, CP, Sfax, Tunisia

    Dalel Belhaj

  5. Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Dongguk University-Seoul, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

    Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale

  6. Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Ashok Kumar

  7. Environmental Molecular Microbiology Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

    Aruliah Rajasekar

  8. Government of Arts & Science College, Karwar, Karnataka State, India

    Preeti N. Tallur

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    Vijayalakshmi A. Edalli

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Mulla, S.I. et al. (2019). Microbial Degradation of Phenolic Compounds. In: Kumar, A., Sharma, S. (eds) Microbes and Enzymes in Soil Health and Bioremediation. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 16. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9117-0_13

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