Toward Biorecycling: Isolation of a Soil Bacterium That Grows on a Polyurethane Oligomer and Monomer

Espinosa, María José Cárdenas; Blanco, Andrea Colina; Schmidgall, Tabea; Atanasoff-Kardjalieff, Anna Katharina; Kappelmeyer, Uwe; Tischler, Dirk; Pieper, Dietmar H.; Heipieper, Hermann J.; Eberlein, Christian

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00404

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“…More recently Philamore et al showed the RowBot, a soft materials-enhanced robot that can operate indefinitely in polluted environments and which can convert organic pollution into safe electrical energy [21]. There is also the potential to inoculate MFCs with microbial species which metabolise waste plastics, such as modified Pseudomonas strains [22], thereby reducing harmful environmental plastics. These show the potential of soft robots to operate autonomously and for long periods of time, delivering positive net environmental impact.…”

Section: Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Soft robotics: the route to true robotic organisms

Rossiter

2021

Artif Life Robotics

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Soft Robotics has come to the fore in the last decade as a new way of conceptualising, designing and fabricating robots. Soft materials empower robots with locomotion, manipulation, and adaptability capabilities beyond those possible with conventional rigid robots. Soft robots can also be made from biological, biocompatible and biodegradable materials. This offers the tantalising possibility of bridging the gap between robots and organisms. Here, we discuss the properties of soft materials and soft systems that make them so attractive for future robots. In doing so, we consider how future robots can behave like, and have abilities akin to, biological organisms. These include huge numbers, finite lifetime, homeostasis and minimal—and even positive—environmental impact. This paves the way for future robots, not as machines, but as robotic organisms.

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Section: Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Soft robotics: the route to true robotic organisms

Rossiter

2021

Artif Life Robotics

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“…; Solirubrobacter spp., Ohtaekwangia etc.) in arsenic-contaminated sites as a major group (Kou et al, 2018;Espinosa et al, 2020). Notably, along with metagenomics, the use of stable isotope probe technique is also found to be effective in the revelation of nitrate dependent As(III) oxidizing bacterial members like Azoarcus, Rhodanobacter, and Pseudomonas, from arsenic-contaminated soil systems (Zhang M. et al, 2020).…”

Section: Meta-omics Perspective In Exploring the Structure-function Of Metal-remediating Microbiotamentioning

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Molecular Insight Into Key Eco-Physiological Process in Bioremediating and Plant-Growth-Promoting Bacteria

Mandal¹,

Saha²,

Mandal³

2021

Front. Agron.

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Over the past few decades, the massive increase in anthropogenic activity and industrialization processes has increased new pollutants in the environment. The effects of such toxic components (heavy metals, pesticides, etc.) in our ecosystem vary significantly and are of significant public health and economic concern. Because of this, environmental consciousness is increasing amongst consumers and industrialists, and legal constraints on emissions are becoming progressively stricter; for the ultimate aim is to achieve cost-effective emission control. Fortunately, certain taxonomically and phylogenetically diverse microorganisms (e.g., sulfur oxidizing/reducing bacteria) are endowed with the capability to remediate such undesired components from diverse habitats and have diverse plant-growth-promoting abilities (auxin and siderophore production, phosphate solubilization, etc.). However, the quirk of fate for pollutant and plant-growth-promoting microbiome research is that, even with an early start, genetic knowledge on these systems is still considered to be in its infancy due to the unavailability of in-depth functional genomics and population dynamics data from various ecosystems. This knowledge gap can be breached if we have adequate information concerning their genetic make-up, so that we can use them in a targeted manner or with considerable operational flexibility in the agricultural sector. Amended understanding regarding the genetic basis of potential microbes involved in such processes has led to the establishment of novel or advanced bioremediation technologies (such as the detoxification efficiency of heavy metals), which will further our understanding of the genomic/genetic landscape in these potential organisms. Our review aimed to unravel the hidden genomic basis and eco-physiological properties of such potent bacteria and their interaction with plants from various ecosystems.

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“…Kou et al (2018) reported 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to study the abundance and diversity of the microbial community in soil polluted with heavy metals like lead, zinc, and copper in Shanghai. 16S rRNA gene sequencing along with membrane fatty acid profile was used to identify soil bacterium Pseudomonas species capable of degrading polyurethane from a site containing an abundance of fragile plastic waste (Cárdenas Espinosa et al, 2020).…”

Section: Genomics and 16s Rrna For Bioremediationmentioning

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Microbial Biodiversity and Bioremediation Assessment Through Omics Approaches

Chandran

Meena

Sharma

2020

Front. Environ. Chem.

130

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Industrialization, population burst, and changing lifestyles have resulted in the genesis of non-degradable pollutants languishing the environment and human health. Biological approaches using microorganisms are gaining importance as an eco-friendly and cost-effective substitute to mitigate the pollution load. Microorganisms can survive in a divergent environment and produce metabolites that can degrade and transform pollutants making it possible to revive contaminated sites naturally. Modern omics technologies like metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, etc. have been used nowadays design strategies to study ecology and diversity of microorganisms and their application in environmental monitoring and bioremediation. The present article will focus on the omics techniques reportedly used in environmental monitoring to tackle the pollution load.

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Toward Biorecycling: Isolation of a Soil Bacterium That Grows on a Polyurethane Oligomer and Monomer

Cited by 78 publications

References 76 publications

Soft robotics: the route to true robotic organisms

Soft robotics: the route to true robotic organisms

Molecular Insight Into Key Eco-Physiological Process in Bioremediating and Plant-Growth-Promoting Bacteria

Microbial Biodiversity and Bioremediation Assessment Through Omics Approaches

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