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Charalampous G, Fragkou E, Kalogerakis N, Antoniou E, Gontikaki E. Diversity links to functionality: Unraveling the impact of pressure disruption and culture medium on crude oil-enriched microbial communities from the deep Eastern Mediterranean Sea. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2024; 202:116275. [PMID: 38564821 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116275] [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: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Mesopelagic water from the deep Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) was collected under disrupted (REPRESS) or undisturbed (HP) pressure conditions and was acclimated to oil (OIL) or dispersed-oil (DISPOIL) under in situ pressure and temperature (10 MPa, 14 °C). Decompression resulted in oil-acclimatised microbial communities of lower diversity despite the restoration of in situ pressure conditions during the 1-week incubation. Further biodiversity loss was observed when oil-acclimatised communities were transferred to ONR7 medium to facilitate the isolation of oil-degrading bacteria. Microbial diversity loss impacted the degradation of recalcitrant oil compounds, especially PAHs, as low-abundance taxa, linked with PAH degradation, were outcompeted in the enrichment process. Thalassomonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Halomonas and Alcanivorax were enriched in ONR7 under all experimental conditions. No effect of dispersant application on the microbial community structure was identified. A. venustensis was isolated under all tested conditions suggesting a potential key role of this species in hydrocarbons removal in the deep EMS.
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- Georgia Charalampous
- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece; Institute of Geoenergy, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Chania, Greece.
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece; Institute of Geoenergy, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Chania, Greece
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece; Institute of Geoenergy, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Chania, Greece
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece; School of Mineral Resources Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
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- Institute of Geoenergy, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Chania, Greece.
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Bharali P, Gogoi B, Sorhie V, Acharjee SA, Walling B, Alemtoshi, Vishwakarma V, Shah MP. Autochthonous psychrophilic hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria and its ecological function in contaminated cold environments. Biodegradation 2024; 35:1-46. [PMID: 37436665 DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10042-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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Petroleum hydrocarbon (PH) pollution has mostly been caused by oil exploration, extraction, and transportation activities in colder regions, particularly in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, where it serves as a primary source of energy. Due to the resilience feature of nature, such polluted environments become the realized ecological niches for a wide community of psychrophilic hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (PHcB). In contrast, to other psychrophilic species, PHcB is extremely cold-adapted and has unique characteristics that allow them to thrive in greater parts of the cold environment burdened with PHs. The stated group of bacteria in its ecological niche aids in the breakdown of litter, turnover of nutrients, cycling of carbon and nutrients, and bioremediation. Although such bacteria are the pioneers of harsh colder environments, their growth and distribution remain under the influence of various biotic and abiotic factors of the environment. The review discusses the prevalence of PHcB community in colder habitats, the metabolic processes involved in the biodegradation of PH, and the influence of biotic and abiotic stress factors. The existing understanding of the PH metabolism by PHcB offers confirmation of excellent enzymatic proficiency with high cold stability. The discovery of more flexible PH degrading strategies used by PHcB in colder environments could have a significant beneficial outcome on existing bioremediation technologies. Still, PHcB is least explored for other industrial and biotechnological applications as compared to non-PHcB psychrophiles. The present review highlights the pros and cons of the existing bioremediation technologies as well as the potential of different bioaugmentation processes for the effective removal of PH from the contaminated cold environment. Such research will not only serve to investigate the effects of pollution on the basic functional relationships that form the cold ecosystem but also to assess the efficacy of various remediation solutions for diverse settings and climatic conditions.
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- Pranjal Bharali
- Applied Environmental Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, 798627, India.
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- Applied Environmental Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, 798627, India
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- Applied Environmental Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, 798627, India
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- Applied Environmental Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, 798627, India
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- Applied Environmental Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, 798627, India
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- Applied Environmental Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, 798627, India
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- Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, NCR Delhi, India
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- Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India
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Marietou A, Schmidt JS, Rasmussen MR, Scoma A, Rysgaard S, Vergeynst L. The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the activity and community composition of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in Arctic seawater. Appl Environ Microbiol 2023; 89:e0098723. [PMID: 37943057 PMCID: PMC10686064 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00987-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Increased ship traffic in the Arctic region raises the risk of oil spills. With an average sea depth of 1,000 m, there is a growing concern over the potential release of oil sinking in the form of marine oil snow into deep Arctic waters. At increasing depth, the oil-degrading community is exposed to increasing hydrostatic pressure, which can reduce microbial activity. However, microbes thriving in polar regions may adapt to low temperature by modulation of membrane fluidity, which is also a well-known adaptation to high hydrostatic pressure. At mild hydrostatic pressures up to 8-12 MPa, we did not observe an altered microbial activity or community composition, whereas comparable studies using deep-sea or sub-Arctic microbial communities with in situ temperatures of 4-5°C showed pressure-induced effects at 10-15 MPa. Our results suggest that the psychrophilic nature of the underwater microbial communities in the Arctic may be featured by specific traits that enhance their fitness at increasing hydrostatic pressure.
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- Angeliki Marietou
- Department of Biology, Section for Microbiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Section for Microbiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Section for Microbiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Arctic Research Centre, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Arctic Research Centre, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Centre for Water Technology (WATEC), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Wang J, Zhang Y, Liu Y, Xie Z, Cao J, Zhang H, Liu J, Bao T, Sun C, Liu B, Wei Y, Fang J. The phylogeny and metabolic potentials of an n-alkane-degrading Venatorbacter bacterium isolated from deep-sea sediment of the Mariana Trench. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1108651. [PMID: 37032874 PMCID: PMC10073702 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1108651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023] Open
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Recently, several reports showed that n-alkanes were abundant in the hadal zone, suggesting that n-alkanes could be an important source of nutrients for microorganisms in hadal ecosystems. To date, most of the published studies on the microbial capacity to degrade hydrocarbons were conducted only at atmospheric temperature and pressure (0.1 MPa), and little is known about whether and which microbes could utilize n-alkanes at in situ environmental conditions in the hadal zone, including low temperature and high hydrostatic pressure (especially >30 MPa). In this study, a piezotolerant bacterium, strain C2-1, was isolated from a Mariana Trench sediment at depth of 5,800 m. Strain C2-1 was able to grow at in situ temperature (4°C) and pressure (58 MPa) with n-alkanes as the sole carbon source. Phylogenetically, strain C2-1 and related strains (TMPB967, ST750PaO-4, IMCC1826, and TTBP476) should be classified into the genus Venatorbacter. Metagenomic analysis using ~5,000 publicly available datasets showed that Venatorbacter has a wide environmental distribution in seawater (38), marine sediments (3), hydrothermal vent plumes (2), Antarctic ice (1), groundwater (13), and marine sponge ecosystems (1). Most Venatorbacter species are non-obligate n-alkane degraders that could utilize, at a minimal, C16-C18 n-alkanes, as well as other different types of carbon substrates, including carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides, and phospholipids. The type II secretion system, extracellular proteases, phospholipase, and endonuclease of Venatorbacter species were robustly expressed in the metatranscriptomes of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, suggesting their important contribution to secondary productivity by degrading extracellular macromolecules. The identification of denitrifying genes suggested a genus-specific ecological potential that allowed Venatorbacter species to be active in anoxic environments, e.g., the oxygen-minimal zone (OMZ) and the deeply buried marine sediments. Our results show that Venatorbacter species are responsible for the degradation of hydrocarbon and extracellular macromolecules, suggesting that they may play an important role in the biogeochemistry process in the Trench ecosystems.
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- Jiahua Wang
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Barbato M, Palma E, Marzocchi U, Cruz Viggi C, Rossetti S, Aulenta F, Scoma A. Snorkels enhance alkanes respiration at ambient and increased hydrostatic pressure (10 MPa) by either supporting the TCA cycle or limiting alternative routes for acetyl-CoA metabolism. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 316:115244. [PMID: 35598451 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115244] [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: 01/31/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The impact of piezosensitive microorganisms is generally underestimated in the ecology of underwater environments exposed to increasing hydrostatic pressure (HP), including the biodegradation of crude oil components. Yet, no isolated pressure-loving (piezophile) microorganism grows optimally on hydrocarbons, and no isolated piezophile at all has a HP optimum <10 MPa (e.g. 1000 m below sea water level). Piezosensitive heterotrophs are thus largely accountable for oil clean up < 10 MPa, however, they are affected by such a mild HP increase in ways which are not completely clear. In a first study, the application of a bioelectrochemical system (called "oil-spill snorkel") enhanced the alkane oxidation capacity in sediments collected at surface water but tested up to 10 MPa. Here, the fingerprint left on transcript abundance was studied to explore which metabolic routes are 1) supported by snorkels application and 2) negatively impacted by HP increase. Transcript abundance was comparable for beta-oxidation across all treatments (also at a taxonomical level), while the metabolism of acetyl-CoA was highly impacted: at either 0.1 or 10 MPa, snorkels supported acetyl-CoA oxidation within the TCA cycle, while in negative controls using non-conductive rods several alternative routes for acetyl-CoA were stimulated (including those leading to internal carbon reserves e.g. 2,3 butanediol and dihydroxyacetone). In general, increased HP had opposite effects as compared to snorkels, thus indicating that snorkels could enhance hydrocarbons oxidation by alleviating in part the stressing effects imposed by increased HP on the anaerobic, respiratory electron transport chain. 16S rRNA gene analysis of sediments and biofilms on snorkels suggest a crosstalk between oil-degrading, sulfate-reducing microorganisms and sulfur oxidizers. In fact, no sulfur was deposited on snorkels, however, iron, aluminum and phosphorous were found to preferentially deposit on snorkels at 10 MPa. This data indicates that a passive BES such as the oil-spill snorkel can mitigate the stress imposed by increased HP on piezosensitive microorganisms (up to 10 MPa) without being subjected to passivation. An improved setup applying these principles can further support this deep-sea bioremediation strategy.
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- Marta Barbato
- Engineered Microbial Systems (EMS) Lab, Industrial Biotechnology Section, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering (BCE), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Microbiology Section, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo, Italy
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- Center for Electromicrobiology, Section for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Center for Water Technology WATEC, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo, Italy
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo, Italy
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo, Italy.
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- Engineered Microbial Systems (EMS) Lab, Industrial Biotechnology Section, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering (BCE), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Microbiology Section, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Qian Y, Han W, Zhou F, Ji B, Zhang H, Zhang K. Effects of Pressurized Aeration on the Biodegradation of Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins by Escherichia coli Strain 2. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:membranes12060634. [PMID: 35736341 PMCID: PMC9227625 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12060634] [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: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) were defined as persistent organic pollutants in 2017, and they can migrate and transform in the environment, accumulate in organisms, and amplify through the food chain. Although they pose a serious threat to environmental safety and human health, there are few papers on their removal. The current SCCP removal methods are expensive, require severe operating conditions, involve time-consuming biological treatment, and have poor removal specificities. Therefore, it is important to seek efficient methods to remove SCCPs. In this paper, a pressurized reactor was introduced, and the removal performance of SCCPs by Escherichia coli strain 2 was investigated. The results indicated that moderate pure oxygen pressurization promoted bacterial growth, but when it exceeded 0.15 MPa, the bacterial growth was severely inhibited. When the concentration of SCCPs was 20 mg/L, the removal rate of SCCPs was 85.61% under 0.15 MPa pure oxygen pressurization for 7 days, which was 25% higher than at atmospheric pressure (68.83%). In contrast, the removal rate was only 69.28% under 0.15 MPa air pressure. As the pressure continued to increase, the removal rate of SCCPs decreased significantly. The total amount of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) increased significantly upon increasing the pressure, and the amount of tightly bound EPS (TB-EPS) was higher than that of loosely bound EPS (LB-EPS). The pressure mainly promoted the secretion of proteins in LB-EPS. Furthermore, an appropriate pure oxygen pressure of 0.15 MPa improved the dehydrogenase activity. The gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) results indicated that the degradation pathway possibly involved the cleavage of the C–Cl bond in SCCPs, which produced Cl−, followed by C–C bond breaking. This process degraded long-chain alkanes into short-chain alkanes. Moreover, the main degradation products detected were 2,4-dimethylheptane (C9H20), 2,5-dimethylheptane (C9H20), and 3,3-dimethylhexane (C8H18).
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- Yongxing Qian
- School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, NingboTech University, Ningbo 315000, China; (Y.Q.); (W.H.); (B.J.); (K.Z.)
- Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, China
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- School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, NingboTech University, Ningbo 315000, China; (Y.Q.); (W.H.); (B.J.); (K.Z.)
- Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, China
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- Zhejiang Haiyi Environmental Protection Equipment Engineering Co., Ltd., Quzhou 324000, China;
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- School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, NingboTech University, Ningbo 315000, China; (Y.Q.); (W.H.); (B.J.); (K.Z.)
- Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, China
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- School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, NingboTech University, Ningbo 315000, China; (Y.Q.); (W.H.); (B.J.); (K.Z.)
- Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, China
- Correspondence: ; Tel./Fax: +86-150-5803-3683
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- School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, NingboTech University, Ningbo 315000, China; (Y.Q.); (W.H.); (B.J.); (K.Z.)
- Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, China
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From Surface Water to the Deep Sea: A Review on Factors Affecting the Biodegradation of Spilled Oil in Marine Environment. JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/jmse10030426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Over the past century, the demand for petroleum products has increased rapidly, leading to higher oil extraction, processing and transportation, which result in numerous oil spills in coastal-marine environments. As the spilled oil can negatively affect the coastal-marine ecosystems, its transport and fates captured a significant interest of the scientific community and regulatory agencies. Typically, the environment has natural mechanisms (e.g., photooxidation, biodegradation, evaporation) to weather/degrade and remove the spilled oil from the environment. Among various oil weathering mechanisms, biodegradation by naturally occurring bacterial populations removes a majority of spilled oil, thus the focus on bioremediation has increased significantly. Helping in the marginal recognition of this promising technique for oil-spill degradation, this paper reviews recently published articles that will help broaden the understanding of the factors affecting biodegradation of spilled oil in coastal-marine environments. The goal of this review is to examine the effects of various environmental variables that contribute to oil degradation in the coastal-marine environments, as well as the factors that influence these processes. Physico-chemical parameters such as temperature, oxygen level, pressure, shoreline energy, salinity, and pH are taken into account. In general, increase in temperature, exposure to sunlight (photooxidation), dissolved oxygen (DO), nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium), shoreline energy (physical advection—waves) and diverse hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms consortium were found to increase spilled oil degradation in marine environments. In contrast, higher initial oil concentration and seawater pressure can lower oil degradation rates. There is limited information on the influences of seawater pH and salinity on oil degradation, thus warranting additional research. This comprehensive review can be used as a guide for bioremediation modeling and mitigating future oil spill pollution in the marine environment by utilizing the bacteria adapted to certain conditions.
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Shapiro TN, Lobakova ES, Dolnikova GA, Ivanova EA, Sandzhieva DA, Burova AA, Dzhabrailova KS, Dedov AG. Community of Hydrocarbon-Oxidizing Bacteria in Petroleum Products on the Example of TS-1 Jet Fuel and AI-95 Gasoline. APPL BIOCHEM MICRO+ 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s0003683821090076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Barbato M, Scoma A. Mild hydrostatic-pressure (15 MPa) affects the assembly, but not the growth, of oil-degrading coastal microbial communities tested under limiting conditions (5°C, no added nutrients). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:5894919. [PMID: 32816016 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Hydrostatic pressures (HP) <30-40 MPa are often considered mild, and their impact on petroleum biodegradation seldom considered. However, the frequent use of nutrient-rich media in lab-scale high-pressure reactors may exaggerate HP importance by resulting in a strong growth stimulation as compared to oligotrophic marine environments. Here, we tested coastal seawater microbial communities, presumably enriched in pressure-sensitive microorganisms. Limiting environmental conditions for growth were applied (i.e. low temperature [5°C], no added nutrients) and HP tested at 0.1 and 15 MPa, using crude oils from three different reservoirs. The cell number was not affected by HP contrary to the microbial community composition (based on 16S rRNA gene and 16S rRNA sequences). The most predominant genera were Zhongshania, Pseudomonas and Colwellia. The enrichment of Zhongshania was crude-oil dependent and comparable at 0.1 and 15 MPa, thus showing a piezotolerant phenotype under the present conditions; Pseudomonas' was crude-oil dependent at 0.1 MPa but unclear at 15 MPa. Colwellia was selectively enriched in the absence of crude oil and suppressed at 15 MPa. HP shaped the assemblage of oil-degrading communities even at mild levels (i.e. 15 MPa), and should thus be considered as a fundamental factor to assess oil bioremediation along the water column.
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- Marta Barbato
- Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ny munkegade 116, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.,Biological and Chemical Engineering Section (BCE), Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Hangøvej 2, 8200, Aarhus N, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ny munkegade 116, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.,Biological and Chemical Engineering Section (BCE), Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Hangøvej 2, 8200, Aarhus N, Denmark
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Van Landuyt J, Cimmino L, Dumolin C, Chatzigiannidou I, Taveirne F, Mattelin V, Zhang Y, Vandamme P, Scoma A, Williamson A, Boon N. Microbial enrichment, functional characterization and isolation from a cold seep yield piezotolerant obligate hydrocarbon degraders. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:5841521. [PMID: 32436568 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Deep-sea environments can become contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. The effects of hydrostatic pressure (HP) in the deep sea on microbial oil degradation are poorly understood. Here, we performed long-term enrichments (100 days) from a natural cold seep while providing optimal conditions to sustain high hydrocarbon degradation rates. Through enrichments performed at increased HP and ambient pressure (AP) and by using control enrichments with marine broth, we demonstrated that both pressure and carbon source can have a big impact on the community structure. In contrast to previous studies, hydrocarbonoclastic operational taxonomic units (OTUs) remained dominant at both AP and increased HP, suggesting piezotolerance of these OTUs over the tested pressure range. Twenty-three isolates were obtained after isolation and dereplication. After recultivation at increased HP, an Alcanivorax sp. showed promising piezotolerance in axenic culture. Furthermore, preliminary co-cultivation tests indicated synergistic growth between some isolates, which shows promise for future synthetic community construction. Overall, more insights into the effect of increased HP on oil-degrading communities were obtained as well as several interesting isolates, e.g. a piezotolerant hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium for future deep-sea bioaugmentation investigation.
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- Josefien Van Landuyt
- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, ENAC-IIE, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, 200240 Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Engineered Microbial Systems (EMS) Laboratory, Section of Biological and Chemical Engineering (BCE), Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Hangøvej 2, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Lelchat F, Dussauze M, Lemaire P, Theron M, Toffin L, Le Floch S. Measuring the biological impact of drilling waste on the deep seafloor: An experimental challenge. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2020; 389:122132. [PMID: 32062395 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Revised: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The depletion of traditional oil fields is driving the oil & gas industry to explore new exploitation sites previously considered as unprofitable. Deep-sea oil fields represent one of these new areas of exploitation. Well drilling during exploration and production operations generate large quantities of drilling waste whose biological impact on the deep-sea floor remains largely unknown. Because of the harsh abiotic factors characterizing this environment, the evaluation of this impact remains challenging. High hydrostatic pressure is the prominent factor which will affect in-situ biological processes. This review will examine the feedback on the various strategies used to evaluate the biological impact of deep-sea drilling waste deposition as well as the current technological limitations. Given the complexity of this issue, a good perspective strategy would be to trend towards the research and development of more relevant bioassays, especially considering the crucial factor of hydrostatic pressure.
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- F Lelchat
- Cedre, 715 rue Alain Colas - CS 41836, 29218 Brest Cedex 2, France; Leo viridis, 140 Avenue Graham Bell, 29280 Plouzané, France.
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- EA 4324 ORPHY, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Université de Brest, 6 avenue LE GORGEU, CS 93837, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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- TOTAL FLUIDES SAS, 24 cours Michelet - 92800 Puteaux, 342 241 908 RCS Nanterre, France
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- EA 4324 ORPHY, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Université de Brest, 6 avenue LE GORGEU, CS 93837, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, UMR6197, Ifremer Centre de Bretagne, ZI de la pointe du diable, CS 10070, 29280 Plouzané, France
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- Cedre, 715 rue Alain Colas - CS 41836, 29218 Brest Cedex 2, France
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Varrella S, Tangherlini M, Corinaldesi C. Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins as Untapped Reservoir of Polyextremophilic Prokaryotes of Biotechnological Interest. Mar Drugs 2020; 18:md18020091. [PMID: 32019162 PMCID: PMC7074082 DOI: 10.3390/md18020091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins (DHABs) are considered to be among the most extreme ecosystems on our planet, allowing only the life of polyextremophilic organisms. DHABs’ prokaryotes exhibit extraordinary metabolic capabilities, representing a hot topic for microbiologists and biotechnologists. These are a source of enzymes and new secondary metabolites with valuable applications in different biotechnological fields. Here, we review the current knowledge on prokaryotic diversity in DHABs, highlighting the biotechnological applications of identified taxa and isolated species. The discovery of new species and molecules from these ecosystems is expanding our understanding of life limits and is expected to have a strong impact on biotechnological applications.
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- Stefano Varrella
- Department of Materials, Environmental Sciences and Urban Planning, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy;
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- Department of Materials, Environmental Sciences and Urban Planning, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy;
- Correspondence:
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Hackbusch S, Noirungsee N, Viamonte J, Sun X, Bubenheim P, Kostka JE, Müller R, Liese A. Influence of pressure and dispersant on oil biodegradation by a newly isolated Rhodococcus strain from deep-sea sediments of the gulf of Mexico. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2020; 150:110683. [PMID: 31753565 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 09/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A new Rhodococcus strain, capable of degrading crude oil, was isolated from the Gulf of Mexico deep-sea sediment and was investigated for its biodegradation characteristics under atmospheric as well as under deep-sea pressure (1500 m = 15 MPa). Additionally, the effect of dispersant (Corexit EC9500A) addition was studied. Rhodococcus sp. PC20 was shown to degrade 60.5 ± 10.7% of the saturated and aromatic fraction of crude oil at atmospheric pressure and 74.2 ± 9.1% at deep-sea level pressure within 96 h. Degradation rates, especially for monoaromatic hydrocarbons, were significantly higher at elevated pressure compared to atmospheric pressure. This study found a growth inhibiting effect at a dispersant to oil ratio of 1:100 and higher. This effect of the dispersant was enhanced when elevated pressure was applied.
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- Steffen Hackbusch
- Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany.
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- Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany.
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- Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany.
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- Georgia Institute of Technology School of Biology and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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- Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany.
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- Georgia Institute of Technology School of Biology and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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- Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany.
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- Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany.
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Potts LD, Perez Calderon LJ, Gontikaki E, Keith L, Gubry-Rangin C, Anderson JA, Witte U. Effect of spatial origin and hydrocarbon composition on bacterial consortia community structure and hydrocarbon biodegradation rates. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2019; 94:5047303. [PMID: 29982504 PMCID: PMC6166136 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Oil reserves in deep-sea sediments are currently subject to intense exploration, with associated risks of oil spills. Previous research suggests that microbial communities from deep-sea sediment (>1000m) can degrade hydrocarbons (HCs), but have a lower degradation ability than shallow (<200m) communities, probably due to in situ temperature. This study aimed to assess the effect of marine origin on microbial HC degradation potential while separating the influence of temperature, and to characterise associated HC-degrading bacterial communities. Microbial communities from 135 and 1000 m deep sediments were selectively enriched on crude oil at in situ temperatures and both consortia were subsequently incubated for 42 days at 20°C with two HC mixtures: diesel fuel or model oil. Significant HC biodegradation occurred rapidly in the presence of both consortia, especially of low molecular weight HCs and was concomitant with microbial community changes. Further, oil degradation was higher with the shallow consortium than with the deep one. Dominant HC-degrading bacteria differed based on both spatial origin of the consortia and supplemented HC types. This study provides evidence for influence of sediment spatial origin and HC composition on the selection and activity of marine HC-degrading bacterial communities and is relevant for future bioremediationdevelopments.
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- Lloyd D Potts
- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UL, United Kingdom.,Materials and Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Fraser Noble Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UL, United Kingdom.,Materials and Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Fraser Noble Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UL, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UL, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UL, United Kingdom
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- Materials and Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Fraser Noble Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UL, United Kingdom
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Reduced TCA cycle rates at high hydrostatic pressure hinder hydrocarbon degradation and obligate oil degraders in natural, deep-sea microbial communities. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 13:1004-1018. [PMID: 30542078 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0324-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Revised: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Petroleum hydrocarbons reach the deep-sea following natural and anthropogenic factors. The process by which they enter deep-sea microbial food webs and impact the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and other elements is unclear. Hydrostatic pressure (HP) is a distinctive parameter of the deep sea, although rarely investigated. Whether HP alone affects the assembly and activity of oil-degrading communities remains to be resolved. Here we have demonstrated that hydrocarbon degradation in deep-sea microbial communities is lower at native HP (10 MPa, about 1000 m below sea surface level) than at ambient pressure. In long-term enrichments, increased HP selectively inhibited obligate hydrocarbon-degraders and downregulated the expression of beta-oxidation-related proteins (i.e., the main hydrocarbon-degradation pathway) resulting in low cell growth and CO2 production. Short-term experiments with HP-adapted synthetic communities confirmed this data, revealing a HP-dependent accumulation of citrate and dihydroxyacetone. Citrate accumulation suggests rates of aerobic oxidation of fatty acids in the TCA cycle were reduced. Dihydroxyacetone is connected to citrate through glycerol metabolism and glycolysis, both upregulated with increased HP. High degradation rates by obligate hydrocarbon-degraders may thus be unfavourable at increased HP, explaining their selective suppression. Through lab-scale cultivation, the present study is the first to highlight a link between impaired cell metabolism and microbial community assembly in hydrocarbon degradation at high HP. Overall, this data indicate that hydrocarbons fate differs substantially in surface waters as compared to deep-sea environments, with in situ low temperature and limited nutrients availability expected to further prolong hydrocarbons persistence at deep sea.
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Perez Calderon LJ, Gontikaki E, Potts LD, Shaw S, Gallego A, Anderson JA, Witte U. Pressure and temperature effects on deep-sea hydrocarbon-degrading microbial communities in subarctic sediments. Microbiologyopen 2018; 8:e00768. [PMID: 30444300 PMCID: PMC6562134 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Revised: 10/20/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The Hatton-Rockall Basin (North-East Atlantic) is an area with potential for deep-sea (2,900 m) hydrocarbon exploration. Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, many investigations into the responses of sediment microbial communities to oil pollution have been undertaken. However, hydrostatic pressure is a parameter that is often omitted due to the technical difficulties associated with conducting experiments at high pressure (>10 MPa). In this study, sediments from 2,900 m in the Hatton-Rockall Basin, following a one-week decompression period in a temperature-controlled room at 5°C, were incubated in factorial combinations of 0.1 and 30 MPa, 5 and 20°C, and contamination with a hydrocarbon mixture or uncontaminated controls to evaluate the effect of these environmental variables on the bacterial community composition. Our results revealed varying effects of pressure, temperature, and oil contamination on the composition of the bacterial community within the sediment. Temperature was the strongest determinant of differences in the bacterial community structure between samples followed by pressure. Oil contamination did not exert a strong change in the sediment bacterial community structure when pressure and temperature conditions were held at in situ levels (30 MPa and 5°C). The γ-proteobacteria Pseudomonas and Colwellia, and several Bacteroidetes dominated communities at 30 MPa. In contrast, hydrocarbon degraders such as Halomonas, Alcanivorax, and Marinobacter decreased in relative abundance at the same pressure. This study highlights the importance of considering hydrostatic pressure in ex situ investigations into hydrocarbon-degrading deepwater microbial communities.
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- Luis J Perez Calderon
- Institute of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Group, Materials and Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, Marine Scotland Science, Aberdeen, UK
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Group, Materials and Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Group, Materials and Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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Kadri T, Magdouli S, Rouissi T, Brar SK, Daghrir R, Lauzon JM. Bench-scale production of enzymes from the hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria Alcanivorax borkumensis and biodegradation tests. J Biotechnol 2018; 283:105-114. [PMID: 30071247 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2018.07.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Revised: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This study investigates motor oil (3, 5, 7.5 and 10% (v v-1)) as a sole carbon source for the production of Alcanivorax borkumensis in shake flasks and a 5 L bench-scale fermenter in comparison to the standard media. Shake flask studies showed a significant and higher cell growth (p=0.000038), lipase (p = 0.006900) and alkane hydroxylase production (p = 0.000921) by Alcanivorax borkumensis when motor oil was used as the substrate. Based on Tukey post-hoc tests, 5% motor oil concentration was selected as the optimal substrate concentration. The 5 L fermenter experiments conducted using motor oil at 5% (v v-1) concentration, under controlled conditions exhibited significant and higher alkane hydroxylase and lipase activities (55.6 U mL-1 (p = 0.018418) and 208.30 U mL-1 (p = 0.020087), respectively) as compared with those of motor oil at 3% (v v-1) and n-hexadecane at 3% (v v-1) concentration which was used as control. Cell growth was significantly higher when motor oil (3 or 5%) was used as a substrate (p = 0.024705). Enzymatic degradation tested on two different polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminated groundwaters showed 37.4% removal after 5 days with a degradation rate of 196.6 ppb day-1 and 82.8% removal after 10 days with a degradation rate of 217.54 ppb day-1 for the 1st site and an almost complete biodegradation with 95% removal and 499.02 ppb day-1 removal rate after only 5 days for the 2nd site.
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- Tayssir Kadri
- INRS-ETE, Université du Québec, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec, G1K 9A9, Canada
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- INRS-ETE, Université du Québec, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec, G1K 9A9, Canada
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- INRS-ETE, Université du Québec, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec, G1K 9A9, Canada
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- INRS-ETE, Université du Québec, 490, Rue de la Couronne, Québec, G1K 9A9, Canada.
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- 696, avenue Sainte Croix, Montréal, Québec, H4L 3Y2, Canada
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- TechnoRem Inc., 4701, rue Louis-B.-Mayer, Laval, Québec, H7P 6G5, Canada
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Gontikaki E, Potts L, Anderson J, Witte U. Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in deep-water subarctic sediments (Faroe-Shetland Channel). J Appl Microbiol 2018; 125:1040-1053. [PMID: 29928773 PMCID: PMC6849767 DOI: 10.1111/jam.14030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2017] [Revised: 05/16/2018] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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AIMS The aim of this study was the baseline description of oil-degrading sediment bacteria along a depth transect in the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) and the identification of biomarker taxa for the detection of oil contamination in FSC sediments. METHODS AND RESULTS Oil-degrading sediment bacteria from 135, 500 and 1000 m were enriched in cultures with crude oil as the sole carbon source (at 12, 5 and 0°C respectively). The enriched communities were studied using culture-dependent and culture-independent (clone libraries) techniques. Isolated bacterial strains were tested for hydrocarbon degradation capability. Bacterial isolates included well-known oil-degrading taxa and several that are reported in that capacity for the first time (Sulfitobacter, Ahrensia, Belliella, Chryseobacterium). The orders Oceanospirillales and Alteromonadales dominated clone libraries in all stations but significant differences occurred at genus level particularly between the shallow and the deep, cold-water stations. Alcanivorax constituted 64% of clones at FSC135 but was absent at deeper stations. Pseudoalteromonas and Oleispira dominated the bacterial community at 500 and 1000 m. CONCLUSIONS The genus Oleispira emerged as a major player in the early stages of crude oil degradation in deep-sea sediments of the FSC particularly at subzero temperatures. This finding is offering a direction for future research into biomonitoring tools for the detection of low levels of crude oil contamination in the deep FSC, and possibly high latitude cold waters in general. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Oil and gas exploration in the FSC occurs at depths >1000 m but baseline environmental data necessary for the assessment of ecosystem recovery to prespill conditions in the event of an oil spill are lacking. This study will contribute to our ability to assess the impact of oil release in the FSC and guide the direction of bioremediation strategies tailored to the area.
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- E. Gontikaki
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Group, Materials and Chemical Engineering, School of EngineeringUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
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Tripathi L, Irorere VU, Marchant R, Banat IM. Marine derived biosurfactants: a vast potential future resource. Biotechnol Lett 2018; 40:1441-1457. [PMID: 30145666 PMCID: PMC6223728 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-018-2602-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Surfactants and emulsifiers are surface-active compounds (SACs) which play an important role in various industrial processes and products due to their interfacial properties. Many of the chemical surfactants in use today are produced from non-renewable petrochemical feedstocks, while biosurfactants (BS) produced by microorganisms from renewable feedstocks are considered viable alternatives to petroleum based surfactants, due to their biodegradability and eco-friendly nature. However, some well-characterised BS producers are pathogenic and therefore, not appropriate for scaled-up production. Marine-derived BS have been found to be produced by non-pathogenic organisms making them attractive possibilities for exploitation in commercial products. Additionally, BS produced from marine bacteria may show excellent activity at extreme conditions (temperature, pH and salinity). Despite being non-pathogenic, marine-derived BS have not been exploited commercially due to their low yields, insufficient structural elucidation and uncharacterised genes. Therefore, optimization of BS production conditions in marine bacteria, characterization of the compounds produced as well as the genes involved in the biosynthesis are necessary to improve cost-efficiency and realise the industrial demands of SACs.
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- Lakshmi Tripathi
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, UK.
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Marietou A, Chastain R, Beulig F, Scoma A, Hazen TC, Bartlett DH. The Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Enrichments of Hydrocarbon Degrading Microbes From the Gulf of Mexico Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:808. [PMID: 29755436 PMCID: PMC5932198 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was one of the largest and deepest oil spills recorded. The wellhead was located at approximately 1500 m below the sea where low temperature and high pressure are key environmental characteristics. Using cells collected 4 months following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill at the Gulf of Mexico, we set up Macondo crude oil enrichments at wellhead temperature and different pressures to determine the effect of increasing depth/pressure to the in situ microbial community and their ability to degrade oil. We observed oil degradation under all pressure conditions tested [0.1, 15, and 30 megapascals (MPa)], although oil degradation profiles, cell numbers, and hydrocarbon degradation gene abundances indicated greatest activity at atmospheric pressure. Under all incubations the growth of psychrophilic bacteria was promoted. Bacteria closely related to Oleispira antarctica RB-8 dominated the communities at all pressures. At 30 MPa we observed a shift toward Photobacterium, a genus that includes piezophiles. Alphaproteobacterial members of the Sulfitobacter, previously associated with oil-degradation, were also highly abundant at 0.1 MPa. Our results suggest that pressure acts synergistically with low temperature to slow microbial growth and thus oil degradation in deep-sea environments.
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- Angeliki Marietou
- Marine Biology Research Division, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.,Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Marine Biology Research Division, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States.,Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States.,Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States.,Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States.,Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States
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- Marine Biology Research Division, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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Lewandowski KK, Cieślikiewicz W, Kobusińska ME, Niemirycz E. Sorption of pentachlorophenol (PCP) in the marine bottom sediments-batch sorption experiment at varying pressure. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 25:10799-10807. [PMID: 29396827 PMCID: PMC5895666 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-1076-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Study was undertaken to determine the effect of hydrostatic pressure on the sorption of pentachlorophenol (PCP). The experiment was conducted at atmospheric pressure (1000 hPa) and at increased pressure (6000 hPa) simulating conditions at the water depth of 50 m. The sorption of PCP was examined in an artificial environment (microcosm) consisting of the marine water and the bottom sediments from a Polish harbor and the southern Baltic Sea. The first part of the experiment comprised the determination of PCP sorption parameters in the microcosms and parameters of the sediments (organic matter content, conductivity) and of the overlying water (pH, ion concentration) at 1000 hPa. The second part of the experiment was conducted at 6000 hPa inside the hyperbaric chamber. The hyperbaric exposure affected parameters of the harbor sediments and the overlying water but had little influence on the concentration of PCP in the microcosms containing the southern Baltic Sea sediments. Considering the specific characteristics of the harbor sediments, it can be assumed that the impact of hydrostatic pressure on the sorption process of PCP at 50-m depth appears to be negligible.
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- Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, Al. Piłsudskiego 46, 81-378, Gdynia, Poland
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- Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, Al. Piłsudskiego 46, 81-378, Gdynia, Poland.
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Fasca H, de Castilho LVA, de Castilho JFM, Pasqualino IP, Alvarez VM, de Azevedo Jurelevicius D, Seldin L. Response of marine bacteria to oil contamination and to high pressure and low temperature deep sea conditions. Microbiologyopen 2018; 7:e00550. [PMID: 29057585 PMCID: PMC5912000 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Revised: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The effect of pressure and temperature on microbial communities of marine environments contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons is understudied. This study aims to reveal the responses of marine bacterial communities to low temperature, high pressure, and contamination with petroleum hydrocarbons using seawater samples collected near an offshore Brazilian platform. Microcosms containing only seawater and those containing seawater contaminated with 1% crude oil were subjected to three different treatments of temperature and pressure as follows: (1) 22°C/0.1 MPa; (2) 4°C/0.1 MPa; and (3) 4°C/22 MPa. The effect of depressurization followed by repressurization on bacterial communities was also evaluated (4°C/22 MPaD). The structure and composition of the bacterial communities in the different microcosms were analyzed by PCR-DGGE and DNA sequencing, respectively. Contamination with oil influenced the structure of the bacterial communities in microcosms incubated either at 4°C or 22°C and at low pressure. Incubation at low temperature and high pressure greatly influenced the structure of bacterial communities even in the absence of oil contamination. The 4°C/22 MPa and 4°C/22 MPaD treatments resulted in similar DGGE profiles. DNA sequencing (after 40 days of incubation) revealed that the diversity and relative abundance of bacterial genera were related to the presence or absence of oil contamination in the nonpressurized treatments. In contrast, the variation in the relative abundances of bacterial genera in the 4°C/22 MPa-microcosms either contaminated or not with crude oil was less evident. The highest relative abundance of the phylum Bacteroidetes was observed in the 4°C/22 MPa treatment.
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- Hanna Fasca
- Laboratório de Genética MicrobianaInstituto de Microbiologia Paulo de GóesUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratório de Tecnologia Submarina/PENO/COPPEUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratório de Tecnologia Submarina/PENO/COPPEUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratório de Genética MicrobianaInstituto de Microbiologia Paulo de GóesUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratório de Genética MicrobianaInstituto de Microbiologia Paulo de GóesUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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- Laboratório de Genética MicrobianaInstituto de Microbiologia Paulo de GóesUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroBrazil
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Terrisse F, Cravo-Laureau C, Noël C, Cagnon C, Dumbrell AJ, McGenity TJ, Duran R. Variation of Oxygenation Conditions on a Hydrocarbonoclastic Microbial Community Reveals Alcanivorax and Cycloclasticus Ecotypes. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1549. [PMID: 28861063 PMCID: PMC5562018 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Deciphering the ecology of marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (MOHCB) is of crucial importance for understanding their success in occupying distinct niches in hydrocarbon-contaminated marine environments after oil spills. In marine coastal sediments, MOHCB are particularly subjected to extreme fluctuating conditions due to redox oscillations several times a day as a result of mechanical (tide, waves and currents) and biological (bioturbation) reworking of the sediment. The adaptation of MOHCB to the redox oscillations was investigated by an experimental ecology approach, subjecting a hydrocarbon-degrading microbial community to contrasting oxygenation regimes including permanent anoxic conditions, anoxic/oxic oscillations and permanent oxic conditions. The most ubiquitous MOHCB, Alcanivorax and Cycloclasticus, showed different behaviors, especially under anoxic/oxic oscillation conditions, which were more favorable for Alcanivorax than for Cycloclasticus. The micro-diversity of 16S rRNA gene transcripts from these genera revealed specific ecotypes for different oxygenation conditions and their dynamics. It is likely that such ecotypes allow the colonization of distinct ecological niches that may explain the success of Alcanivorax and Cycloclasticus in hydrocarbon-contaminated coastal sediments during oil-spills.
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- Fanny Terrisse
- IPREM UMR CNRS 5254, Equipe Environnement et Microbiologie, MELODY Group, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'AdourPau, France
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- IPREM UMR CNRS 5254, Equipe Environnement et Microbiologie, MELODY Group, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'AdourPau, France
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- IPREM UMR CNRS 5254, Equipe Environnement et Microbiologie, MELODY Group, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'AdourPau, France
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- IPREM UMR CNRS 5254, Equipe Environnement et Microbiologie, MELODY Group, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'AdourPau, France
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of EssexColchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of EssexColchester, United Kingdom
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- IPREM UMR CNRS 5254, Equipe Environnement et Microbiologie, MELODY Group, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'AdourPau, France
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Mapelli F, Scoma A, Michoud G, Aulenta F, Boon N, Borin S, Kalogerakis N, Daffonchio D. Biotechnologies for Marine Oil Spill Cleanup: Indissoluble Ties with Microorganisms. Trends Biotechnol 2017; 35:860-870. [PMID: 28511936 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2017] [Revised: 04/09/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The ubiquitous exploitation of petroleum hydrocarbons (HCs) has been accompanied by accidental spills and chronic pollution in marine ecosystems, including the deep ocean. Physicochemical technologies are available for oil spill cleanup, but HCs must ultimately be mineralized by microorganisms. How environmental factors drive the assembly and activity of HC-degrading microbial communities remains unknown, limiting our capacity to integrate microorganism-based cleanup strategies with current physicochemical remediation technologies. In this review, we summarize recent findings about microbial physiology, metabolism and ecology and describe how microbes can be exploited to create improved biotechnological solutions to clean up marine surface and deep waters, sediments and beaches.
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- Francesca Mapelli
- Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), University of Gent, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, 23955-6900 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), 00015 Monterotondo, Italy
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), University of Gent, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, 23955-6900 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
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Liu J, Bacosa HP, Liu Z. Potential Environmental Factors Affecting Oil-Degrading Bacterial Populations in Deep and Surface Waters of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Front Microbiol 2017; 7:2131. [PMID: 28119669 PMCID: PMC5222892 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Understanding bacterial community dynamics as a result of an oil spill is important for predicting the fate of oil released to the environment and developing bioremediation strategies in the Gulf of Mexico. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the roles of temperature, water chemistry (nutrients), and initial bacterial community in selecting oil degraders through a series of incubation experiments. Surface (2 m) and bottom (1537 m) waters, collected near the Deepwater Horizon site, were amended with 200 ppm light Louisiana sweet crude oil and bacterial inoculums from surface or bottom water, and incubated at 4 or 24°C for 50 days. Bacterial community and residual oil were analyzed by pyrosequencing and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), respectively. The results showed that temperature played a key role in selecting oil-degrading bacteria. Incubation at 4°C favored the development of Cycloclasticus, Pseudoalteromonas, Sulfitobacter, and Reinekea, while 24°C incubations enhanced Oleibacter, Thalassobius, Phaeobacter, and Roseobacter. Water chemistry and the initial community also had potential roles in the development of hydrocarbon-degrading bacterial communities. Pseudoalteromonas, Oleibacter, and Winogradskyella developed well in the nutrient-enriched bottom water, while Reinekea and Thalassobius were favored by low-nutrient surface water. We revealed that the combination of 4°C, crude oil and bottom inoculum was a key factor for the growth of Cycloclasticus, while the combination of surface inoculum and bottom water chemistry was important for the growth of Pseudoalteromonas. Moreover, regardless of the source of inoculum, bottom water at 24°C was a favorable condition for Oleibacter. Redundancy analysis further showed that temperature and initial community explained 57 and 19% of the variation observed, while oil and water chemistry contributed 14 and 10%, respectively. Overall, this study revealed the relative roles of temperature, water chemistry, and initial bacterial community in selecting oil degraders and regulating their evolution in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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- Jiqing Liu
- Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas TX, USA
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- Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas TX, USA
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- Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas TX, USA
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Barbato M, Scoma A, Mapelli F, De Smet R, Banat IM, Daffonchio D, Boon N, Borin S. Hydrocarbonoclastic Alcanivorax Isolates Exhibit Different Physiological and Expression Responses to n-dodecane. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2056. [PMID: 28066376 PMCID: PMC5174103 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Autochthonous microorganisms inhabiting hydrocarbon polluted marine environments play a fundamental role in natural attenuation and constitute promising resources for bioremediation approaches. Alcanivorax spp. members are ubiquitous in contaminated surface waters and are the first to flourish on a wide range of alkanes after an oil-spill. Following oil contamination, a transient community of different Alcanivorax spp. develop, but whether they use a similar physiological, cellular and transcriptomic response to hydrocarbon substrates is unknown. In order to identify which cellular mechanisms are implicated in alkane degradation, we investigated the response of two isolates belonging to different Alcanivorax species, A. dieselolei KS 293 and A. borkumensis SK2 growing on n-dodecane (C12) or on pyruvate. Both strains were equally able to grow on C12 but they activated different strategies to exploit it as carbon and energy source. The membrane morphology and hydrophobicity of SK2 changed remarkably, from neat and hydrophilic on pyruvate to indented and hydrophobic on C12, while no changes were observed in KS 293. In addition, SK2 accumulated a massive amount of intracellular grains when growing on pyruvate, which might constitute a carbon reservoir. Furthermore, SK2 significantly decreased medium surface tension with respect to KS 293 when growing on C12, as a putative result of higher production of biosurfactants. The transcriptomic responses of the two isolates were also highly different. KS 293 changes were relatively balanced when growing on C12 with respect to pyruvate, giving almost the same amount of upregulated (28%), downregulated (37%) and equally regulated (36%) genes, while SK2 transcription was upregulated for most of the genes (81%) when growing on pyruvate when compared to C12. While both strains, having similar genomic background in genes related to hydrocarbon metabolism, retained the same capability to grow on C12, they nevertheless presented very different physiological, cellular and transcriptomic landscapes.
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- Marta Barbato
- Centre for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium; Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of MilanMilan, Italy
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- Centre for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Forensic Pathology, University of Ghent Ghent, Belgium
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster Coleraine, UK
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- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of MilanMilan, Italy; Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Centre for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan Milan, Italy
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An impaired metabolic response to hydrostatic pressure explains Alcanivorax borkumensis recorded distribution in the deep marine water column. Sci Rep 2016; 6:31316. [PMID: 27515484 PMCID: PMC4981847 DOI: 10.1038/srep31316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Alcanivorax borkumensis is an ubiquitous model organism for hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria, which dominates polluted surface waters. Its negligible presence in oil-contaminated deep waters (as observed during the Deepwater Horizon accident) raises the hypothesis that it may lack adaptive mechanisms to hydrostatic pressure (HP). The type strain SK2 was tested under 0.1, 5 and 10 MPa (corresponding to surface water, 500 and 1000 m depth, respectively). While 5 MPa essentially inactivated SK2, further increase to 10 MPa triggered some resistance mechanism, as indicated by higher total and intact cell numbers. Under 10 MPa, SK2 upregulated the synthetic pathway of the osmolyte ectoine, whose concentration increased from 0.45 to 4.71 fmoles cell−1. Central biosynthetic pathways such as cell replication, glyoxylate and Krebs cycles, amino acids metabolism and fatty acids biosynthesis, but not β-oxidation, were upregulated or unaffected at 10 MPa, although total cell number was remarkably lower with respect to 0.1 MPa. Concomitantly, expression of more than 50% of SK2 genes was downregulated, including genes related to ATP generation, respiration and protein translation. Thus, A. borkumensis lacks proper adaptation to HP but activates resistance mechanisms. These consist in poorly efficient biosynthetic rather than energy-yielding degradation-related pathways, and suggest that HP does represent a major driver for its distribution at deep-sea.
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Scoma A, Yakimov MM, Boon N. Challenging Oil Bioremediation at Deep-Sea Hydrostatic Pressure. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1203. [PMID: 27536290 PMCID: PMC4971052 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The Deepwater Horizon accident has brought oil contamination of deep-sea environments to worldwide attention. The risk for new deep-sea spills is not expected to decrease in the future, as political pressure mounts to access deep-water fossil reserves, and poorly tested technologies are used to access oil. This also applies to the response to oil-contamination events, with bioremediation the only (bio)technology presently available to combat deep-sea spills. Many questions about the fate of petroleum-hydrocarbons within deep-sea environments remain unanswered, as well as the main constraints limiting bioremediation under increased hydrostatic pressures and low temperatures. The microbial pathways fueling oil bioassimilation are unclear, and the mild upregulation observed for beta-oxidation-related genes in both water and sediments contrasts with the high amount of alkanes present in the spilled oil. The fate of solid alkanes (tar), hydrocarbon degradation rates and the reason why the most predominant hydrocarbonoclastic genera were not enriched at deep-sea despite being present at hydrocarbon seeps at the Gulf of Mexico have been largely overlooked. This mini-review aims at highlighting the missing information in the field, proposing a holistic approach where in situ and ex situ studies are integrated to reveal the principal mechanisms accounting for deep-sea oil bioremediation.
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- Alberto Scoma
- Center of Microbial Ecology and Technology, University of Gent Gent, Belgium
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment - National Council of ResearchMessina, Italy; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityKaliningrad, Russia
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- Center of Microbial Ecology and Technology, University of Gent Gent, Belgium
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Scoma A, Boon N. Osmotic Stress Confers Enhanced Cell Integrity to Hydrostatic Pressure but Impairs Growth in Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:729. [PMID: 27242746 PMCID: PMC4870253 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2016] [Accepted: 05/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Alcanivorax is a hydrocarbonoclastic genus dominating oil spills worldwide. While its presence has been detected in oil-polluted seawaters, marine sediment and salt marshes under ambient pressure, its presence in deep-sea oil-contaminated environments is negligible. Recent laboratory studies highlighted the piezosensitive nature of some Alcanivorax species, whose growth yields are highly impacted by mild hydrostatic pressures (HPs). In the present study, osmotic stress was used as a tool to increase HP resistance in the type strain Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2. Control cultures grown under standard conditions of salinity and osmotic pressure with respect to seawater (35.6 ppt or 1136 mOsm kg-1, respectively) were compared with cultures subjected to hypo- and hyperosmosis (330 and 1720 mOsm kg-1, or 18 and 62 ppt in salinity, equivalent to brackish and brine waters, respectively), under atmospheric or increased HP (0.1 and 10 MPa). Osmotic stress had a remarkably positive impact on cell metabolic activity in terms of CO2 production (thus, oil bioremediation) and O2 respiration under hyperosmosis, as acclimation to high salinity enhanced cell activity under 10 MPa by a factor of 10. Both osmotic shocks significantly enhanced cell protection by reducing membrane damage under HP, with cell integrities close to 100% under hyposmosis. The latter was likely due to intracellular water-reclamation as no trace of the piezolyte ectoine was found, contrary to hyperosmosis. Notably, ectoine production was equivalent at 0.1 MPa in hyperosmosis-acclimated cells and at 10 MPa under isosmotic conditions. While stimulating cell metabolism and enhancing cell integrity, osmotic stress had always a negative impact on culture growth and performance. No net growth was observed during 4-days incubation tests, and CO2:O2 ratios and pH values indicated that culture performance in terms of hydrocarbon degradation was lowered by the effects of osmotic stress alone or combined with increased HP. These findings confirm the piezosensitive nature of A. borkumensis, which lacks proper resistance mechanisms to improve its metabolic efficiency under increased HP, thus explaining its limited role in oil-polluted deep-sea environments.
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- Alberto Scoma
- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Department of Biochemical and Microbial Technology, University of Ghent Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Department of Biochemical and Microbial Technology, University of Ghent Ghent, Belgium
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