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Han NN, Yang JH, Fan NS, Jin RC. Mechanistic insight into microbial interaction and metabolic pattern of anammox consortia on surface-modified biofilm carrier with extracellular polymeric substances. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2024; 407:131092. [PMID: 38986879 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.131092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2024] [Revised: 06/25/2024] [Accepted: 07/06/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
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The extremely slow growth rate of anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox) bacteria limits full-scale application of anammox process worldwide. In this study, extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)-coated polypropylene (PP) carriers were prepared for biofilm formation. The biomass adhesion rate of EPS-PP carrier was 12 times that of PP carrier, and EPS-PP achieved significant enrichment of E. coli BY63. The 120-day continuous flow experiment showed that the EPS-PP carrier accelerated the formation of anammox biofilm, and the nitrogen removal efficiency increased by 10.5 %. In addition, the abundance of Candidatus Kuenenia in EPS-PP biofilm was 27.1%. Simultaneously, amino acids with high synthesis cost and the metabolites of glycerophospholipids related to biofilm formation on EPS-PP biofilm were significantly up-regulated. Therefore, EPS-PP carriers facilitated the rapid formation of anammox biofilm and promoted the metabolic activity of functional bacteria, which further contributed to the environmental and economic sustainability of anammox process.
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- Na-Na Han
- Laboratory of Water Pollution Remediation, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Laboratory of Water Pollution Remediation, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- School of Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China.
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- School of Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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Zhang X, Jiao P, Wang Y, Dai Y, Zhang M, Wu P, Ma L. Optimizing anaerobic digestion: Benefits of mild temperature transition from thermophilic to mesophilic conditions. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ECOTECHNOLOGY 2024; 21:100440. [PMID: 38993655 PMCID: PMC11237690 DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2024.100440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Revised: 06/09/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) plays a significant role in renewable energy recovery. Upgrading AD from thermophilic (50-57 °C) to mesophilic (30-38 °C) conditions to enhance process stability and reduce energy input remains challenging due to the high sensitivity of thermophilic microbiomes to temperature fluctuations. Here we compare the effects of two decreasing-temperature modes from 55 to 35 °C on cell viability, microbial dynamics, and interspecies interactions. A sharp transition (ST) is a one-step transition by 20 °C d-1, while a mild transition (MT) is a stepwise transition by 1 °C d-1. We find a greater decrease in methane production with ST (88.8%) compared to MT (38.9%) during the transition period. ST mode overproduced reactive oxygen species by 1.6-fold, increased membrane permeability by 2.2-fold, and downregulated microbial energy metabolism by 25.1%, leading to increased apoptosis of anaerobes by 1.9-fold and release of intracellular substances by 2.9-fold, further constraining methanogenesis. The higher (1.6 vs. 1.1 copies per gyrA) metabolic activity of acetate-dependent methanogenesis implied more efficient methane production in a steady mesophilic, MT-mediated system. Metagenomic binning and network analyses indicated that ST induced dysbiosis in keystone species and greatly enhanced microbial functional redundancy, causing loss of microbial syntrophic interactions and redundant metabolic pathways. In contrast, the greater microbial interconnections (average degrees 44.9 vs. 22.1) in MT at a steady mesophilic state suggested that MT could better maintain necessary system functionality and stability through microbial syntrophy or specialized pathways. Adopting MT to transform thermophilic digesters into mesophilic digesters is feasible and could potentially enhance the further optimization and broader application of practical anaerobic engineering.
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- Xingxing Zhang
- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
- Technology Innovation Center for Land Spatial Eco-restoration in Metropolitan Area, Ministry of Natural Resources, Shanghai, 200062, China
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Wirasembada YC, Shin B, Shin J, Kurniawan A, Cho J. Effects of sudden shock load on simultaneous biohythane production in two-stage anerobic digestion of high-strength organic wastewater. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2024; 394:130186. [PMID: 38096997 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.130186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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The two-stage anaerobic digestion (AD) for biohythane production is a sustainable solution, but it is sensitive to organic shock load that disrupts reactors and inhibits biohythane production. This study investigated biohythane production, reactor performance, and the possibility of post-failure restoration in a two-stage AD system designed for treating high-strength organic wastewater. Sudden shock load was applied by increasing the OLR threefold higher after reaching steady state phase. During shock load phase, hydrogen content, hydrogen yield and methane production rate (MPR) reached its peak values of 62.61 %, 1.641 mol H2/mol glucose, and 1.003 L CH4/L⋅d respectively before declining significantly. Interestingly, during the restorative phase, hydrogen production sharply declined to nearly zero, while methane production exhibited a resilience and reached its peak methane content of 52.2 %. The study successfully demonstrated the system's resilience to sudden shock load, ensuring stable methane production, while hydrogen production did not exhibit the same capability.
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- Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea.
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- Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia.
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- Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea.
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Zhang X, Wang Y, Jiao P, Zhang M, Deng Y, Jiang C, Liu XW, Lou L, Li Y, Zhang XX, Ma L. Microbiome-functionality in anaerobic digesters: A critical review. WATER RESEARCH 2024; 249:120891. [PMID: 38016221 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
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Microbially driven anaerobic digestion (AD) processes are of immense interest due to their role in the biovalorization of biowastes into renewable energy resources. The function-versatile microbiome, interspecies syntrophic interactions, and trophic-level metabolic pathways are important microbial components of AD. However, the lack of a comprehensive understanding of the process hampers efforts to improve AD efficiency. This study presents a holistic review of research on the microbial and metabolic "black box" of AD processes. Recent research on microbiology, functional traits, and metabolic pathways in AD, as well as the responses of functional microbiota and metabolic capabilities to optimization strategies are reviewed. The diverse ecophysiological traits and cooperation/competition interactions of the functional guilds and the biomanipulation of microbial ecology to generate valuable products other than methane during AD are outlined. The results show that AD communities prioritize cooperation to improve functional redundancy, and the dominance of specific microbes can be explained by thermodynamics, resource allocation models, and metabolic division of labor during cross-feeding. In addition, the multi-omics approaches used to decipher the ecological principles of AD consortia are summarized in detail. Lastly, future microbial research and engineering applications of AD are proposed. This review presents an in-depth understanding of microbiome-functionality mechanisms of AD and provides critical guidance for the directional and efficient bioconversion of biowastes into methane and other valuable products.
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- Xingxing Zhang
- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Technology Innovation Center for Land Spatial Eco-restoration in Metropolitan Area, Ministry of Natural Resources, Shanghai 200062, PR China.
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Luo C, He T, Wang G, Tian M, Dai L, Pu T, Tian G. Up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket treatment of swine wastewater: Effect of heterologous and homologous inocula on anaerobic digestion performance and the microbial community. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 386:129463. [PMID: 37429557 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.129463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Revised: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/12/2023]
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The effects of heterogenous (anaerobic sludge from treating distillery sewage, ASDS) and homologous (anaerobic sludge from treating swine wastewater, ASSW) inocula on anaerobic digestion and the microbial community in an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket treating swine wastewater were compared. The highest chemical oxygen demand removal efficiencies with ASDS (84.8%) and ASSW (83.1%) were obtained with an organic loading rate of 15 kg COD/m3/d. For ASSW compared with ASDS, methane production efficiency was 15.3% higher and excess sludge production was 73.0% lower. The abundance of the cellulose hydrolyzing bacterium Clostridium sensu stricto_1 with ASDS (36.1%) was 1.5 times that with ASSW, while that of Methanosarcina with ASSW (22.9%) was > 100 times that with ASDS. ASDS reduced the content of pathogenic bacteria by 88.0%, while ASSW maintained a low level of pathogenic bacteria. ASSW greatly improved the methane production efficiency of wastewater and is more suitable for treating swine wastewater.
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- Can Luo
- Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation in Mountainous Region (Ministry of Education), China College of Agriculture, Institute of New Rural Development, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation in Mountainous Region (Ministry of Education), China College of Agriculture, Institute of New Rural Development, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- Agricultural Ecology and Resource Protection Station of Guizhou Province, Guiyang 550001, China
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- Agricultural Ecology and Resource Protection Station of Guizhou Province, Guiyang 550001, China
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- Agricultural Ecology and Resource Protection Station of Guizhou Province, Guiyang 550001, China
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- Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation in Mountainous Region (Ministry of Education), China College of Agriculture, Institute of New Rural Development, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China; Soil Fertilizer Work Station of Guizhou Province, Guiyang 550001, China
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- Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation in Mountainous Region (Ministry of Education), China College of Agriculture, Institute of New Rural Development, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China.
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Manikandan NA, Lens PNL. Sustainable biorefining and bioprocessing of green seaweed (Ulva spp.) for the production of edible (ulvan) and non-edible (polyhydroxyalkanoate) biopolymeric films. Microb Cell Fact 2023; 22:140. [PMID: 37525181 PMCID: PMC10388562 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-023-02154-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023] Open
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A sustainable biorefining and bioprocessing strategy was developed to produce edible-ulvan films and non-edible polyhydroxybutyrate films. The preparation of edible-ulvan films by crosslinking and plasticisation of ulvan with citric acid and xylitol was investigated using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis. The edible ulvan film was tested for its gut-friendliness using Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium spp. (yoghurt) and was shown to improve these gut-friendly microbiome's growth and simultaneously retarding the activity of pathogens like Escherchia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Green macroalgal biomass refused after the extraction of ulvan was biologically processed by dark fermentation to produce a maximum of 3.48 (± 0.14) g/L of volatile fatty acids (VFAs). Aerobic processing of these VFAs using Cupriavidus necator cells produced 1.59 (± 0.12) g/L of biomass with 18.2 wt% polyhydroxybutyrate. The present study demonstrated the possibility of producing edible and non-edible packaging films using green macroalgal biomass as the sustainable feedstock.
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- N Arul Manikandan
- National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.
- DCU Glasnevin Campus, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland.
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- National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland
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Singh S, Keating C, Ijaz UZ, Hassard F. Molecular insights informing factors affecting low temperature anaerobic applications: Diversity, collated core microbiomes and complexity stability relationships in LCFA-fed systems. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 874:162420. [PMID: 36842571 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Fats, oil and grease, and their hydrolyzed counterparts-long chain fatty acids (LCFA) make up a large fraction of numerous wastewaters and are challenging to degrade anaerobically, more so, in low temperature anaerobic digestion (LtAD) systems. Herein, we perform a comparative analysis of publicly available Illumina 16S rRNA datasets generated from LCFA-degrading anaerobic microbiomes at low temperatures (10 and 20 °C) to comprehend the factors affecting microbial community dynamics. The various factors considered were the inoculum, substrate and operational characteristics, the reactor operation mode and reactor configuration, and the type of nucleic acid sequenced. We found that LCFA-degrading anaerobic microbiomes were differentiated primarily by inoculum characteristics (inoculum source and morphology) in comparison to the other factors tested. Inoculum characteristics prominently shaped the species richness, species evenness and beta-diversity patterns in the microbiomes even after long term operation of continuous reactors up to 150 days, implying the choice of inoculum needs careful consideration. The generalised additive models represented through beta diversity contour plots revealed that psychrophilic bacteria RBG-13-54-9 from family Anaerolineae, and taxa WCHB1-41 and Williamwhitmania were highly abundant in LCFA-fed microbial niches, suggesting their role in anaerobic treatment of LCFAs at low temperatures of 10-20 °C. Overall, we showed that the following bacterial genera: uncultured Propionibacteriaceae, Longilinea, Christensenellaceae R7 group, Lactivibrio, candidatus Caldatribacterium, Aminicenantales, Syntrophus, Syntrophomonas, Smithella, RBG-13-54-9, WCHB1-41, Trichococcus, Proteiniclasticum, SBR1031, Lutibacter and Lentimicrobium have prominent roles in LtAD of LCFA-rich wastewaters at 10-20 °C. This study provides molecular insights of anaerobic LCFA degradation under low temperatures from collated datasets and will aid in improving LtAD systems for treating LCFA-rich wastewaters.
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- Suniti Singh
- Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University, College Way, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK.
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.
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- Infrastructure and Environment Research Division, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK; Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK; College of Science and Engineering, NUI Galway, Ireland.
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- Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University, College Way, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK; Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability, University of South Africa, UNISA Science Campus, 1710 Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Huang DQ, Wu Q, Yang JH, Jiang Y, Li ZY, Fan NS, Jin RC. Deciphering endogenous and exogenous regulations of anammox consortia in responding to lincomycin by multiomics: quorum sensing and CRISPR system. WATER RESEARCH 2023; 239:120061. [PMID: 37201375 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The widespread use of antibiotics has created an antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)-enriched environment, which causes high risks on human and animal health. Although antibiotics can be partially adsorbed and degraded in wastewater treatment processes, striving for a complete understanding of the microbial adaptive mechanism to antibiotic stress remains urgent. Combined with metagenomics and metabolomics, this study revealed that anammox consortia could adapt to lincomycin by spontaneously changing the preference for metabolite utilization and establishing interactions with eukaryotes, such as Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. Specifically, quorum sensing (QS) based microbial regulation and the ARGs transfer mediated by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) system and global regulatory genes were the principal adaptive strategies. Western blotting results validated that Cas9 and TrfA were mainly responsible for the alteration of ARGs transfer pathway. These findings highlight the potential adaptative mechanism of microbes to antibiotic stress and fill gaps in horizontal gene transfer pathways in the anammox process, further facilitating the ARGs control through molecular and synthetic biology techniques.
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- Dong-Qi Huang
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Laboratory of Water Pollution Remediation, School of Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310018, China; School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China.
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- Laboratory of Water Pollution Remediation, School of Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310018, China; School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China.
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Cui H, Xu R, Yu Z, Meng F. Phylogenetic group-based assembly and co-occurrence pattern of the microbial community in full-scale wastewater treatment plants during the Chinese spring festival. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 316:137775. [PMID: 36621691 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.137775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The quality and quantity of domestic sewage discharge vary significantly during the Chinese Spring Festival due to the huge population shift. The dynamics of microbial community traits during the Spring Festival, particularly the phylogenetic group-based assembly and co-occurrence patterns, are however little understood. Here, influent and activated sludge samples from 2 full-scale wastewater treatment plants were collected bi-daily throughout a 20-day Spring Festival period and subjected to high-throughput Illumina-MiSeq sequencing. The findings revealed that the microbial communities in the activated sludge displayed a comparatively stable pattern, and that the influent communities experienced significant temporal fluctuations in terms of diversity and composition. The characterization by "Infer Community Assembly Mechanisms by Phylogenetic-bin based null model" demonstrated that for Competibacter glycogen-accumulating organisms, the assembly mechanism shifted from deterministic process (HoS = 69.5%) before the Spring Festival to stochastic process (DR = 65.9%) after the Spring Festival. The network analysis revealed that the network structure of sludge communities was more stable before the Spring Festival than that after the Spring Festival. Additionally, sludge communities had no keystone species in common with the influent before the Spring Festival, while the sludge and influent communities shared two keystone taxa after the Spring Festival (Sebaldella and Candidatus Competibacter). This study would deepen our understanding of the microbial ecology in biological wastewater treatment systems, which also aids in managing wastewater treatment plants.
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- Hongcan Cui
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, PR China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology (Sun Yat-sen University), Guangzhou, 510275, PR China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, PR China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology (Sun Yat-sen University), Guangzhou, 510275, PR China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, PR China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology (Sun Yat-sen University), Guangzhou, 510275, PR China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, PR China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology (Sun Yat-sen University), Guangzhou, 510275, PR China.
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