Microbial stress response to heavy metals in the environment

P Prabhakaran, MA Ashraf, WS Aqma - Rsc Advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Heavy metal contamination is a global environmental issue as it poses a significant threat to
public health, and exposure to metals above a certain threshold level can cause deleterious …

Review of technologies for biotreatment of refinery wastewaters: progress, challenges and future opportunities

S Pal, F Banat, A Almansoori… - Environmental …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Rapid urbanization and industrial development has led to increased discharge of
wastewater from process plants such as oil and gas refineries in recent years. Refinery …

Purification and characterization of exopolysaccharide bioflocculant produced by heavy metal resistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans

S Subudhi, V Bisht, N Batta, M Pathak, A Devi… - Carbohydrate …, 2016 - Elsevier
Optimization of process parameters enhanced bioflocculating activity of 'Achromobacter
xylosoxidans strain TERI L1'from 75% to 83.3% in absence of heavy metals, which …

Biogenic Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Using Enterococcus faecalis: Adsorption of Hexavalent Chromium from Aqueous Solution and In Vitro Cytotoxicity …

MS Samuel, S Datta, N Chandrasekar, R Balaji… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The biological synthesis of nanoparticles is emerging as a potential method for nanoparticle
synthesis due to its non-toxicity and simplicity. In the present study, a bacterium resistant to …

[HTML][HTML] Physicochemical and molecular characterization of heavy metal–tolerant bacteria isolated from soil of mining sites in Nigeria

UB Ibrahim, AH Kawo, I Yusuf, S Yahaya - Journal of Genetic Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Mining for precious metals is detrimental to the composition of soil structure and
microbial diversity distribution and is a health risk to human communities around the affected …

[PDF][PDF] Isolation and characterization of a phosphate solubilizing heavy metal tolerant bacterium from River Ganga, West Bengal, India.

D Paul, SN Sinha - Songklanakarin Journal of Science & Technology, 2015 - academia.edu
Phosphates solubilizing bacterial (PSB) strains were isolated from the jute mill effluent
discharge area of the Ganga river water at Bansberia, West Bengal, India. Experimental …

Bioflocculant production and biosorption of zinc and lead by a novel bacterial species, Achromobacter sp. TERI-IASST N, isolated from oil refinery waste

S Subudhi, N Batta, M Pathak, V Bisht, A Devi, B Lal - Chemosphere, 2014 - Elsevier
A bioflocculant-producing bacterial isolate designated as 'TERI-IASST N'was isolated from
activated sludge samples collected from an oil refinery. This isolate demonstrated maximum …

Diverse molecular resistance mechanisms of Bacillus megaterium during metal removal present in a spent catalyst

A Rivas-Castillo, D Orona-Tamayo… - Biotechnology and …, 2017 - Springer
Bacillus megaterium strain MNSH1-9K-1, isolated from a high-metal content site in
Guanajuato, Mexico, has the intrinsic capacity to remove vanadium (V) and nickel (Ni) from a …

Evaluation of antibiotic resistance patterns and heavy metals tolerance of some bacteria isolated from contaminated soils and sediments from Warri, Delta State …

AF Eghomwanre, NO Obayagbona… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - ajol.info
This work investigated the antibiotic resistance patterns and heavy metals such as Lead
(Pb), Zinc (Zn), Cadmium (Cd) and iron (Fe) tolerance of selected bacteria isolated from …

Bacterial Bisorption as an Approach for the Bioremediation of Chromium Contaminated Soils: An Overview

AY Fardami, S Abdullahi - UMYU Journal of Microbiology Research, 2024 - ajol.info
Chromium possesses detrimental effects on the health of both plants and animals.
Biosorption is a process where biological materials (bacteria, fungi, algae, or agricultural …