Bioremediation of Pharma Pollutants Using Synthetic Systems

Abstract

The pharmaceutical industry is responsible for the environmental pollution imposed by drugs, heavy metals, and surfactants. In-situ remediation of pharma pollutants with the cell-based system has some limitations like sensing of contaminants, efficacy, cost, concentration of pollutants, toxicity level, etc. Synthetic biology is important for gene mining, enzymes discovery, and biodegradation pathway of pollutants. The chapter is based on the synthetic systems for remediation of the pharma pollutants.