Recent advance in the study of persistent organic pollutants bioremediation
持久性有机污染物(POPs)生物修复研究进展

Due to the potential toxicity and poor degradation of POPs, advanced bioremediation, a novel effectively removing technique to POPs in various contaminated environmental media including water, sediments and soils, was more and more concerned by public. . With recent advances in the field of biomolecular engineering, the capability of microorganisms to bioremediate POPs could be greatly improved. Low bioavailability, the bottleneck of in situ bioremediation, would be broken through by the study of biosurfactant and chemtaxis; Metagenome could provide us with a large amount of useful genes involved in POPs degradation which traditional culture technique couldn't do. Recently, elevation of POPs bioavailabiliity, exploration of degradation gene from non-cultured microorganism, and construction of Genomic Engineering microorganism(GEM), are three hotspots in research of POPs bioremediation.