ABSTRACT
The problem of environmental contamination with chemical compounds continues to be a serious, large-scale, global problem. Petroleum compounds, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals are some of the most emerging pollutants in the world. Bioremediation methods using enzymes for the degradation of pollutants are distinguished from physicochemical and biological methods by their high efficiency achieved in a short time and their lack of harmful effects on the environment and living organisms. The aim of this work is to present possibilities of the application of different types of fungal enzymes, which are used in the bioremediation of environmental pollutants. In recent years, much attention has been paid to laccases, which effectively degrade synthetic dyes and pharmaceuticals. Nitrogenous compounds, in turn, can be treated, among others, by nitroreductases. Other oxidoreductases, transferases, and hydrolases also have the ability to catalyze the degradation of stubborn pollutants of anthropogenic origin. The review of literature on the subject clearly indicates that the application of fungal enzymes, also in the immobilized form, is going to develop intensively in the near future.
