Nothing lasts forever: understanding microbial biodegradation of polyfluorinated compounds and perfluorinated alkyl substances

LP Wackett - Microbial biotechnology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Poly‐and perfluorinated chemicals, including perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), are
pervasive in today's society, with a negative impact on human and ecosystem health …

Biodegradation potential of the genus Rhodococcus

L Martínková, B Uhnáková, M Pátek, J Nešvera… - Environment …, 2009 - Elsevier
A large number of aromatic compounds and organic nitriles, the two groups of compounds
covered in this review, are intermediates, products, by-products or waste products of the …

New frontiers and develo** applications in 19F NMR

JX Yu, RR Hallac, S Chiguru, RP Mason - Progress in nuclear magnetic …, 2013 - Elsevier
1.2. Background Fluorine NMR offers many attractive features, most notably detection
sensitivity approaching that of protons. 19 F has a nuclear spin I= 1/2, a gyromagnetic ratio …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic metabolism for biohalogenation

A Cros, G Alfaro-Espinoza, A De Maria, NT Wirth… - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Halogenation is a powerful strategy to tune physicochemical features of organic
molecules.•Synthetic metabolism can be tailored for the incorporation of halogen …

19F NMR applications in chemical biology

SL Cobb, CD Murphy - Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Although fluorine plays only a minor role in biology, its physicochemical properties have
proven incredibly useful in the design of analogues of biologically important molecules …

The remarkable Rhodococcus erythropolis

CCCR De Carvalho, MMR Da Fonseca - Applied microbiology and …, 2005 - Springer
Rhodococcus erythropolis cells contain a large set of enzymes that allow them to carry out
an enormous number of bioconversions and degradations. Oxidations, dehydrogenations …

NMR spectroscopy of wastewater: A review, case study, and future potential

MT Anaraki, DH Lysak, K Downey, FVC Kock… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
NMR spectroscopy is arguably the most powerful tool for the study of molecular structures
and interactions, and is increasingly being applied to environmental research, such as the …

The biodegradation vs. biotransformation of fluorosubstituted aromatics

M Kiel, KH Engesser - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2015 - Springer
Fluoroaromatics are widely and—in recent years—increasingly used as agrochemicals,
starting materials for chemical syntheses and especially pharmaceuticals. This originates …

Unexpected mechanism of biodegradation and defluorination of 2, 2-difluoro-1, 3-benzodioxole by Pseudomonas putida F1

MD Bygd, KG Aukema, JE Richman, LP Wackett - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Perfluorinated carbon atoms in a diether linkage are common in commercial anesthetics,
drugs, fungicides, and insecticides. An important chemical group comprising …

[KNIHA][B] Environmental degradation and transformation of organic chemicals

AH Neilson, AS Allard - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
Addressing the persistent environmental threat of organic chemicals with a fresh approach
to degradation and transformation processes, Environmental Degradation and …