“…The complete mineralization of estrogens to CO 2 can be accomplished by a limited number of bacteria, mainly from the phyla Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria (Fujii et al, 2002;Fahrbach et al, 2006;Yu et al, 2007Yu et al, , 2016Kurisu et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2019;Li et al, 2020). Although some biotransformation steps have been described in estrogen-degrading strains, the complete degradation pathway still remains unknown (Yu et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2014Wang et al, , 2018Wang et al, , 2019Chen et al, 2017).…”