Sewage fungus

Degradation percentages of several UV filters and some of their metabolites in a solid-phase treatment of sewage sludge by T. versicolor are shown in [80]. As treatments were performed in sterile conditions, the near 100% removal efficiencies of those compounds can be attributed to fungal biotransformation. However, experiments in synthetic liquid media with the fungus in the form of pellets are preferable for the in-depth study of each contaminant. 

Estrone is a potent natural estrogen found in effluents of sewage treatment plants. Partially purified manganese peroxidase from Phanerochaete sordida was able to completely transform 10 pM estrone in 2 h. This transformation was accompanied by the complete removal of estrogenic activity [108], Tsutsumi et al. [109] used manganese peroxidase from the same fungus, and also demonstrated the... 

Cephalosporins were first obtained from a filamentous fungus Cephalosporium cultured from the sea near a Sardinian sewage outfall in 1945 their molecular structure is closely related to that of penicillin, and many semisynthetic forms have been introduced. They now comprise a group of antibiotics having a wide range of activity and low toxicity. The term cephalosporins will be used here in a general sense although some are strictly cephamycins, e.g. cefoxitin and cefotetan. 

The following two compounds, which exhibit powaf ul antibacterial activity, were isolated from the fungus Cephalosporium acremonium in 1948 from the sea near a sewage outlet on the Sardinian coast. 

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