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. 2019 Aug 2;10:1778. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01778

Table 4.

Pyrethroid degrading enzymes from different sources.

S. No. Pyrethroid isomer used for study Microbes/other source Enzymes Metabolites References
1 Trans-permethrin, cis-permethrin, and racemic permethrin Bacillus cereus Permethrinase with molecular weight 61KDa B-naphthylacetate was used as substrate, no specific data of pathway reported Maloney et al., 1993
2 Trans-permethrin and cis-permethrin Lucila cuprina and Drosophila melanogaster Helicoverpa armigera Carboxylestease enzyme plays role in pyrethroid hydrolysis No data Heidari et al., 2005; Li et al., 2019
3 Trans-permethrin, cis-permethrin, cypermethrin, fenvalerate, and deltamethrin Aspergillus niger ZD11 Novel pyrethroid hydrolase degrades permethrin and similar compounds No data Liang et al., 2005
4 Deltamethrin, bifenthrin, cyfluthrin, and λ-cyhalothrin Human liver hCE-1 and hCE-2 carboxylesterases hydrolyze the pyrethroids and pyrethroid like fluorescent surrogates No data Nishi et al., 2006; Wang et al., 2018
5 Pyrethroids and organophosphate Falobacterium sp., Culex pipiens Co-expression of organophosphate hydrolase and carboxylesterase B1 gene that can degrade many pesticides together No data Lan et al., 2006
6 Trans and cis-permethrin Klebsiella sp. ZD112 Esterase enzyme with molecular weight 73KDa has high efficiency than insect and mammals p-Nitrophenyl ester was used for enzyme catalysis Wu et al., 2006
7 Permethrin, deltamethrin, cypermethrin, and esfenvalerate Intestinal, liver and serum carboxylesterse Hydrolysis of pyrethroids by humans and rat tissues No data of metabolite Crow et al., 2007
8 Bioresmethrin α-cypermethrin deltamethrin Hepatic cells Hepatic carboxylesterase Hepatic carboxylesterase metaboloize ester comtaining xenobiotics Ross et al., 2006
9 Cypermethrin Soil samples Soil dehydrogenase Increased dehydrogenase activity when nitrogen was added into cypermethrin Xie et al., 2008
10 Prethroids in soil Soil samples Pyrethroid hydrolyzing esterase The genes coding esterase cloned and expressed from metagenomic library Li et al., 2008
11 Cypermethrin Bacillus spp. Esterase and aldehyde dehydrogenase Upregulation of the enzymes in response to pesticide stress Bhatt et al., 2019a
12 Cypermethrin Bacillus sp. Esterase, dehydrogenease, and many other proteins and enzymes Differential expression was observed with cypermethrin in Bacillus sp. Bhatt et al., 2016a
13 Permethrin, fenpropathrin, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, cyhalothrin, fenvalerate, and bifenthrin Sphingobium sp. JZ-1 Pyrethroid hydrolyzing carboxylesterase 840bp of gene coding for the enzyme carboxylesterase (molecular mass-31 KDa and PI-4.85) Wang et al., 2009
14 Fenpropathrin, cypermethrin, permethrin, cyhalothrin, deltamethrin, fenvalerate, and bifenthrin Sphingobium sp. JZ-2 Pyrethroid hydrolase This enzyme was a monomer of a 31KDa with pI-4.85. Guo et al., 2009
15 Cyhalothrin, cypermethrin, and deltamethrin Soil samples Thermostable pyrethroid esterase Isolated and identified from metagenomic approach. Molecular mass of the enzyme was 30.8 KDa Fan et al., 2012
16 Lambda-cyhalothrin, beta-cypermethrin, beta cyfluthrin, deltamethrin, and permethrin Ochrobactrum anthropi YZ-1 Novel pyrethroid hydrolyzing carboxylesterase Hingh enzyme specificity, broad substrate activity makes this enzyme as a potential candidate for pyrethroid degradation Zhai et al., 2012
17 Beta-cypermethrin, deltamethrin, cypermethrin, permethrin, fenvalerate, and Cyhalothrin Bacillus cereus BCC01 Carboxylesterase EstA Enzyme showed excellent adaptability under various circumstances Hu et al., 2019
18 Fenpropathrin Rhodopseudomonas palustris PSB-S Esterase (Est3385) The optimal temperature (35°C) and pH (6.0) for esterase Luo et al., 2018, 2019
19 Cypermethrin Bacillus subtilis Esterase and laccase pH-7.0 Temp-32°C Gangola et al., 2018