White rot fungi can be a promising tool for removal of bisphenol A, bisphenol S, and nonylphenol from wastewater
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REVIEW ARTICLE
White rot fungi can be a promising tool for removal of bisphenol A, bisphenol S, and nonylphenol from wastewater Agnieszka Grelska 1 & Magdalena Noszczyńska 1 Received: 9 April 2020 / Accepted: 3 August 2020 # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) are a wide group of chemicals that interfere with the endocrine system. Their similarity to natural steroid hormones makes them able to attach to hormone receptors, thereby causing unfavorable health effects. Among EDC, bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S (BPS), and nonylphenol (NP) seem to be particularly harmful. As the industry is experiencing rapid expansion, BPA, BPS, and NP are being produced in growing amounts, generating considerable environmental pollution. White rot fungi (WRF) are an economical, ecologically friendly, and socially acceptable way to remove EDC contamination from ecosystems. WRF secrete extracellular ligninolytic enzymes such as laccase, manganese peroxidase, lignin peroxidase, and versatile peroxidase, involved in lignin deterioration. Owing to the broad substrate specificity of these enzymes, they are able to remove numerous xenobiotics, including EDC. Therefore, WRF seem to be a promising tool in the abovementioned EDC elimination during wastewater treatment processes. Here, we review WRF application for this EDC removal from wastewater and indicate several strengths and limitations of such methods. Keywords White rot fungi . Endocrine-disrupting chemicals . Lignin-modifying enzymes
Introduction The past two decades have seen growing awareness of the possible adverse effects on human and animal health resulting from exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC). This group includes xenoestrogens, i.e., exogenous substances with estrogen activity, to which bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S (BPS), and nonylphenol (NP) belong (Pothitou and Voutsa 2008; Michałowicz 2014; Pookpoosa et al. 2014; Garcia-Morales et al. 2015; Guo et al. 2016; Catanese and Vandenberg 2017; Yan et al. 2017; Diao et al. 2017; Urriola-Muñoz et al. 2017; Česen et al. 2018; Wu et al. 2018b; Noszczyńska and Piotrowska-Seget 2018). EDC are associated with a wide variety of disorders (Ben-Jonathan 2004; Kandaraki et al. 2011; Schug et al.
Responsible Editor: Diane Purchase * Magdalena Noszczyńska [email protected] 1
Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
2011; De Coster and Van Larebeke 2012). Despite the negative effects of EDC, they are widely used in industry (Noszczyńska and Piotrowska-Seget 2018; RodríguezPeña et al. 2019). As a result of the extensive production, processing, and transport of EDC-containing products and EDC themselves, these compounds often contaminate aquatic environments, as shown in Table 1 (Pothitou and Voutsa 2008; Terzić et al. 2008; Janex-Habibi et al. 2009; Kasprzyk-Hordern et al. 2009; Martin Ruel et al. 2010; Rosal et al. 2010; Yu et al. 2013; Yang et al. 2014a
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