Mushroom and biocompounds as ecofriendly biossorbents: a bioremedial action

• Grant number: 16/22873-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: July 01, 2017
• End date: September 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Chemical Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Denise Grotto
• Grantee: Denise Grotto
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria Acadêmica. Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO). Sorocaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Angela Faustino Jozala

Abstract

The contamination in the aquatic environment by metals and pharmaceutical products (especially those capable of disrupting the endocrine system, such as female hormones) has attracted the attention of researchers. The extent of contamination is mainly the toxicity of the compounds, even in low concentrations, the persistence in the environment, and the inefficiency of the conventional system of water and sewage treatment. Thus, the development of ecofriendly products that could be used in biosorption of metals and hormones is relevant. Edible mushrooms have interesting constituents, which are able to act as sorbents and chelators, such as chitin and chitosan, and phenolic compounds. Moreover, byproducts developed from microorganisms have been widely applied in environmental contamination by improving the solubilization of pollutants from soil and water contaminated, which in turn improves the bioavailability for treatment. Thus, the objectives are i) to produce a particulate product from Lentinula edodes and Agaricus bisporus mushrooms (and from the substrate waste of these mushrooms); ii) to develop a byproduct produced by microorganisms (one biossurfactant from bacterial will be immobilized in bacterial cellulose); iii) and to apply these products as biosorbents for metals (copper and lead) and medications (17²-estradiol and paracetamol) in water. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LEITE VIEIRA, RAQUEL ANDRADE; PICKLER, THAISA BORIM; MENA SEGATO, TALITA CRISTINA; JOZALA, ANGELA FAUSTINO; GROTTO, DENISE. Biochar from fungiculture waste for adsorption of endocrine disruptors in water. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 12, n. 1, p. 10-pg., 2022-04-20. (16/22873-4)

CASTANHO, NATHALIA R. C. M.; DE OLIVEIRA, RENAN A.; BATISTA, BRUNO L.; FREIRE, BRUNA M.; LANGE, CAMILA; LOPES, ANDRE M.; JOZALA, ANGELA F.; GROTTO, DENISE. Comparative Study on Lead and Copper Biosorption Using Three Bioproducts from Edible Mushrooms Residues. JOURNAL OF FUNGI, v. 7, n. 6, JUN 2021. (18/10799-0, 17/10789-1, 16/22873-4)

MENK, JOSILENE DE JESUS; SOARES DO NASCIMENTO, ASHILEY INGRID; LEITE, FERNANDA GOMES; DE OLIVEIRA, RENAN ANGRIZANI; JOZALA, ANGELA FAUSTINO; DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, JOSE MARTINS; CHAUD, MARCO VINICIUS; GROTTO, DENISE. Biosorption of pharmaceutical products by mushroom stem waste. Chemosphere, v. 237, DEC 2019. (16/22873-4)