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Grelska A, Noszczyńska M. White rot fungi can be a promising tool for removal of bisphenol A, bisphenol S, and nonylphenol from wastewater. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 27:39958-39976. [PMID: 32803603 PMCID: PMC7546991 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-10382-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) are a wide group of chemicals that interfere with the endocrine system. Their similarity to natural steroid hormones makes them able to attach to hormone receptors, thereby causing unfavorable health effects. Among EDC, bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S (BPS), and nonylphenol (NP) seem to be particularly harmful. As the industry is experiencing rapid expansion, BPA, BPS, and NP are being produced in growing amounts, generating considerable environmental pollution. White rot fungi (WRF) are an economical, ecologically friendly, and socially acceptable way to remove EDC contamination from ecosystems. WRF secrete extracellular ligninolytic enzymes such as laccase, manganese peroxidase, lignin peroxidase, and versatile peroxidase, involved in lignin deterioration. Owing to the broad substrate specificity of these enzymes, they are able to remove numerous xenobiotics, including EDC. Therefore, WRF seem to be a promising tool in the abovementioned EDC elimination during wastewater treatment processes. Here, we review WRF application for this EDC removal from wastewater and indicate several strengths and limitations of such methods.
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- Agnieszka Grelska
- Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032, Katowice, Poland
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- Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032, Katowice, Poland.
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Spennati F, Mora M, Bardi A, Becarelli S, Siracusa G, Di Gregorio S, Gabriel D, Mori G, Munz G. Respirometric techniques coupled with laboratory-scale tests for kinetic and stoichiometric characterisation of fungal and bacterial tannin-degrading biofilms. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2020; 81:2559-2567. [PMID: 32857743 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2020.315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In environmental biotechnology applications for wastewater treatment, bacterial-based bioprocesses are mostly implemented; on the contrary, the application of fungal-based bioprocesses, is still challenging under non-sterile conditions. In a previous laboratory-scale study, we showed that when specific tannins are used as the sole carbon source, fungi can play a key role in the microbial community, under non-sterile conditions and in the long term. In a previous study, an engineered ecosystem, based on fungal tannin biodegradation, was successfully tested in a laboratory-scale bioreactor under non-sterile conditions. In the present study, a kinetic and stoichiometric characterisation of the biomass developed therein was performed through the application of respirometric techniques applied to the biomass collected from the above-mentioned reactor. To this aim, a respirometric set-up was specifically adapted to obtain valuable information from tannin-degrading fungal biofilms. A mathematical model was also developed and applied to describe both the respirometric profiles and the experimental data collected from the laboratory-scale tests performed in the bioreactor. The microbial growth was described through a Monod-type kinetic equation as a first approach. Substrate inhibition, decay rate and tannin hydrolysis process were included to better describe the behaviour of immobilised biomass selected in the tannin-degrading bioreactor. The model was implemented in AQUASIM using the specific tool Biofilm Compartment to simulate the attached fungal biofilm. Biofilm features and transport parameters were either measured or assumed from the literature. Key kinetic and stoichiometric unknown parameters were successfully estimated, overcoming critical steps for scaling-up a novel fungal-based technology for tannins biodegradation.
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- F Spennati
- Laboratorio Cer2co, Consorzio Cuoio-Depur S.p.A,Via Arginale Ovest, 81-S.Miniato 56020, Pisa, Italy E-mail:
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- GENOCOV, Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Via di S. Marta, 3, 50121, Firenze, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Luca Ghini 13, 56123, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Luca Ghini 13, 56123, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Luca Ghini 13, 56123, Pisa, Italy
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- GENOCOV, Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratorio Cer2co, Consorzio Cuoio-Depur S.p.A,Via Arginale Ovest, 81-S.Miniato 56020, Pisa, Italy E-mail:
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Via di S. Marta, 3, 50121, Firenze, Italy
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David PCL, Camilo LAJ, Farid REJ, Felipe MMJ, Stephanie PC, Julio RR, Janeth MCF, Carlos SRJ, Ana DAL, Santiago LPH, Marina PRA. Effect of Domestic Wastewater as Co-Substrate on Biological Stain Wastewater Treatment Using Fungal/Bacterial Consortia in Pilot Plant and Greenhouse Reuse. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.4236/jwarp.2018.103020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Badia-Fabregat M, Lucas D, Tuomivirta T, Fritze H, Pennanen T, Rodríguez-Mozaz S, Barceló D, Caminal G, Vicent T. Study of the effect of the bacterial and fungal communities present in real wastewater effluents on the performance of fungal treatments. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 579:366-377. [PMID: 27889212 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Revised: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/14/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The use of the ligninolytic fungi Trametes versicolor for the degradation of micropollutants has been widely studied. However, few studies have addressed the treatment of real wastewater containing pharmaceutically active compounds (PhAC) under non-sterile conditions. The main drawback of performing such treatments is the difficulty for the inoculated fungus to successfully compete with the other microorganisms growing in the bioreactor. In the present study, several fungal treatments were performed under non-sterile conditions in continuous operational mode with two types of real wastewater effluent, namely, a reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) from a wastewater treatment plant and a veterinary hospital wastewater (VHW). In all cases, the setup consisted of two parallel reactors: one inoculated with T. versicolor and one non-inoculated, which was used as the control. The main objective of this work was to correlate the operational conditions and traditional monitoring parameters, such as laccase activity, with PhAC removal and the composition of the microbial communities developed inside the bioreactors. For that purpose a variety of biochemical and molecular biology analyses were performed: phospholipid fatty acids analysis (PLFA), quantitative PCR (qPCR) and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) followed by sequencing. The results show that many indigenous fungi (and not only bacteria, which were the focus of the majority of previously published research) can successfully compete with the inoculated fungi (i.e., Trichoderma asperellum overtook T. versicolor in the ROC treatment). We also showed that the wastewater origin and the operational conditions had a stronger impact on the diversity of microbial communities developed in the bioreactors than the inoculation or not with T. versicolor.
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- Marina Badia-Fabregat
- Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), H2O Building, Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, 101-E-17003 Girona, Spain
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Jokiniemenkuja 1, FI-01370 Vantaa, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Jokiniemenkuja 1, FI-01370 Vantaa, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Jokiniemenkuja 1, FI-01370 Vantaa, Finland
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), H2O Building, Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, 101-E-17003 Girona, Spain
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), H2O Building, Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, 101-E-17003 Girona, Spain; Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Department of Environmental Chemistry (IDAEA-CSIC), Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Química Avançada de (IQAC) CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Continuous fungal treatment of non-sterile veterinary hospital effluent: pharmaceuticals removal and microbial community assessment. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 100:2401-15. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-7105-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Revised: 10/13/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Yang Q, Zhang H, Li X, Wang Z, Xu Y, Ren S, Chen X, Xu Y, Hao H, Wang H. Extracellular enzyme production and phylogenetic distribution of yeasts in wastewater treatment systems. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2013; 129:264-273. [PMID: 23261999 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.11.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2012] [Revised: 11/21/2012] [Accepted: 11/22/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The abilities of yeasts to produce different extracellular enzymes and their distribution characteristics were studied in municipal, inosine fermentation, papermaking, antibiotic fermentation, and printing and dyeing wastewater treatment systems. The results indicated that of the 257 yeasts, 16, 14, 55, and 11 produced lipase, protease, manganese dependant peroxidase (MnP), and lignin peroxidase (LiP), respectively. They were distributed in 12 identified and four unidentified genera, in which Candida rugosa (AA-M17) and an unidentified Saccharomycetales (AA-Y5), Pseudozyma sp. (PH-M15), Candida sp. (MO-Y11), and Trichosporon montevideense (MO-M16) were shown to have the highest activity of lipase, protease, Mnp, and LiP, respectively. No yeast had amylase, cellulose, phytase, or laccase activity. Although only 60 isolates produced ligninolytic enzymes, 249 of the 257 yeasts could decolorize different dyes through the mechanism of biodegradation (222 isolates) or bio-sorption. The types of extracellular enzymes that the yeasts produced were significantly shaped by the types of wastewater treated.
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- Qingxiang Yang
- College of Life Sciences, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China.
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Yang Q, Wang J, Wang H, Chen X, Ren S, Li X, Xu Y, Zhang H, Li X. Evolution of the microbial community in a full-scale printing and dyeing wastewater treatment system. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2012; 117:155-163. [PMID: 22613891 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.04.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2012] [Revised: 04/14/2012] [Accepted: 04/19/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In this study, the dynamics of bacterial, fungal and archaeal populations in two-stage biological processes of a full-scale printing and dyeing wastewater treatment system were traced using cultivation and molecular biological techniques. The enumeration results indicated that bacteria were the dominant population in the system, in which the ratio of fungi to bacteria decreased in all the treatment units, while the ratio of archaea to bacteria increased significantly, especially in samples from the second-stage biological treatment process. PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis showed that the microbial diversity increased with system running and 64.6% of bacterial, 57.6% of fungal and 38.2% of archaeal populations remained in the system from the seed sludge during system start-up. In spite of variation in the microbial community and composition of the influents, some bacterial species such as Thauera sp. and Xanthomonadaceae were present simultaneously in all the collected samples.
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- Qingxiang Yang
- College of Life Sciences, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China.
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Rajendran R, Sundaram SK, Sridevi B, Prabhavath P, Gopi V. Biodetoxification of Azo Dye Containing Textile Effluent Through Adapted Fungal Strains. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.3923/jest.2012.29.41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Yang Q, Zhang W, Zhang H, Li Y, Li C. Wastewater treatment by alkali bacteria and dynamics of microbial communities in two bioreactors. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2011; 102:3790-3798. [PMID: 21190847 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Revised: 12/02/2010] [Accepted: 12/06/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In this study, an alkali bacterial consortium was obtained by enrichment cultivation and was used to treat printing and dyeing wastewater (PDW, pH 11-12). The treatment effects and dynamic changes were evaluated in a biocontact oxidation reactor (BOR) and a sequencing batch reactor (SBR). During 3 months of continuous operation, the two bioreactors had similar treatment efficiencies (polyvinyl alcohol, PVA, 74.5-81.3%; COD, 73.5-77.4%; 2.15 pH decreases). Molecular biological analysis indicated that the microbial communities underwent dramatic changes during the operation, in which the SBR was superior to the BOR in retaining the alkali bacteria at the start-up stage, however, the BOR seemed to be more advantageous when the frequently changing influents were considered. The bacterial communities in BOR and SBR were diverse and included Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and an unidentified cluster. Among these only Paracoccus sp. was successfully isolated and confirmed to have the ability to degrade PVA.
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- Qingxiang Yang
- College of Life Sciences, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China.
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