Interest in the pollution potential of textile dyes depends on
their possibility of toxicity or carcinogenity, cleavage of azo
dyes into the corresponding amines many of which are carcinogenic
(Chivukula et al., 1995; Chung and Stevens, 1995;
Thurston, 1994). Azo reductases have been shown to be very
specific enzymes thus cleaving only the azo bonds of azo dyes.
In contrast the phenoxidases lignin peroxidase, manganese
peroxidase and laccase act more unspecifically on the aromatic
ring and have the potential to degrade a wide range of aromatic
structures (Atlas, 1993).
A great number of white rot fungi have been rep