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Grabowski S, Apolinario EA, Schneider NO, Marshall CW, Sowers K. Dethiosulfovibrio faecalis sp. nov., a novel proteolytic, non-sulphur-reducing bacterium isolated from a marine aquaculture solid waste bioreactor. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72. [DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
A new
Dethiosulfovibrio
strain, designated F2BT, was isolated from an anaerobic digester for treating solid waste from a marine recirculating aquaculture system. The motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming curved rods were 2–7 µm long and 1 µm in diameter. Growth occurred at temperatures ranging from 20 to 40 °C with a maximum rate of growth at 30 °C. The pH range for growth was pH 6.0–8.0, with a maximum rate of growth at pH 7.5. This isolate was halotolerant growing in NaCl concentrations ranging from 0 to 1.6 M with a maximum rate of growth at 0.4 M. Similarly to the five described
Dethiosulfovibrio
species, this obligate anaerobe isolate was fermentative, capable of utilizing peptides, amino acids and some organic acids for growth, but unlike described strains in the genus did not reduce thiosulphate or elemental sulphur to hydrogen sulphide during fermentation of organic substrates. The G+C content of 55 mol% is similar to the described
Dethiosulfovibrio
species. The average nucleotide identity analysis between whole genome sequences showed less than 93.15% sequence similarity between strain F2BT and the five other described
Dethiosulfovibrio
species. Differences in the physiological and phylogenetic characteristics between the new strain and other
Dethiosulfovibrio
specied indicate that F2BT represents a novel species of this genus and the epithet Dethiosulfovibrio faecalis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is F2BT (=DSM 112078T=KCTC25378T).
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- Stephen Grabowski
- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
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Xu G, Zhang N, Zhao X, Chen C, Zhang C, He J. Offshore Marine Sediment Microbiota Respire Structurally Distinct Organohalide Pollutants. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:3065-3075. [PMID: 35187933 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c06680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Marine sediments are a major sink of organohalide pollutants, but the potential for offshore marine microbiota to transform these pollutants remains underexplored. Here, we report dehalogenation of diverse organohalide pollutants by offshore marine microbiota. Dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) was observed in four marine sediment microcosms, which was positively correlated with in situ PCB contamination. Three distinct enrichment cultures were enriched from these PCB-dechlorinating microcosms using tetrachloroethene (PCE) as the sole organohalide. All enrichment cultures also dehalogenated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), and 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP). Particularly, two enrichments completely debrominated penta-BDEs, the first observation of complete debromination of penta-BDEs in marine cultures. Multiple Dehalococcoides and uncultivated Dehalococcoidia were identified in the initial sediment microcosms, but only Dehalococcoides was dominant in all enrichments. Transcription of a gene encoding a PcbA5-like reductive dehalogenase (RDase) was observed during dehalogenation of different organohalides in each enrichment culture. When induced by a single organohalide substrate, the PcbA5-like RDase dehalogenated all tested organohalides (PCE, PCBs, PBDEs, TBBPA, and 2,4,6-TCP) in in vitro tests, suggesting its involvement in dehalogenation of structurally distinct organohalides. Our results demonstrate the versatile dehalogenation capacity of marine Dehalococcoidia and contribute to a better understanding of the fate of these pollutants in marine systems.
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- Guofang Xu
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Block E2-02-13, 1 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Singapore
- NUS Graduate School─Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme (ISEP), National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Block E2-02-13, 1 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Singapore
- Institute of Marine Biology and Pharmacology, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316021, China
- College of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471003, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Block E2-02-13, 1 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Singapore
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Block E2-02-13, 1 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Singapore
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- Institute of Marine Biology and Pharmacology, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316021, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Block E2-02-13, 1 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Singapore
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Chitsaz M, Fennell DE, Rodenburg LA. Sources of polychlorinated biphenyls to Upper Hudson River sediment post-dredging. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 259:127438. [PMID: 32585460 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Revised: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The Upper Hudson River (UHR) has been contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) since the 1940s due to the manufacture of capacitors at two plants near Hudson Falls and Fort Edward, NY by General Electric (GE). Dredging of portions of the UHR was conducted from 2009 to 2015 as a partial remedy for this contamination. In 2017, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation undertook a comprehensive post-dredging survey of sediment contamination in the UHR. Thousands of samples were collected, and 130 of these were analyzed for PCBs using EPA method 1668A. This data set was analyzed using Positive Matrix Factorization. Six factors were observed. One factor resembled the dominant Aroclors used by GE with little alteration. Three factors represented different pathways and/or extents of microbial dechlorination. One factor resembled a mixture of microbial dechlorination products and a higher molecular weight Aroclor used by GE. The congener patterns of the dechlorination factors suggest that removal of chlorines at the ortho position does occur in the UHR sediment, in agreement with several laboratory studies showing that such ortho dechlorination is possible. This ortho dechlorination could theoretically lead to complete dechlorination of PCBs to biphenyl in UHR sediment. Only one factor was not attributable to GE. It represents inputs of PCBs from tributaries and urban areas and explains 1.7% of the PCB mass in the sediments. The small contribution from the non-GE PCB source suggests that recontamination of the sediment after dredging was minor.
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- Mahdi Chitsaz
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA.
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Knossow N, Siebner H, Bernstein A. Isotope Fractionation (δ 13C, δ 15N) in the Microbial Degradation of Bromoxynil by Aerobic and Anaerobic Soil Enrichment Cultures. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2020; 68:1546-1554. [PMID: 31986047 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b07653] [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] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Bromoxynil is an increasingly applied nitrile herbicide. Under aerobic conditions, hydration, nitrilation, or hydroxylation of the nitrile group commonly occurs, whereas under anaerobic conditions reductive dehalogenation is common. This work studied the isotope effects associated with these processes by soil cultures. The aerobic soil enrichment culture presented a significant increase in Stenotrophomonas, Pseudomonas, Chryseobacterium, Achromobacter, Azospirillum, and Arcticibacter, and degradation products indicated that nitrile hydratase was the dominant degradation route. The anaerobic culture was dominated by Proteobacteria and Firmicutes phyla with a significant increase in Dethiosulfatibacter, and degradation products indicated reductive debromination as a major degradation route. Distinct dual-isotope trends (δ13C, δ15N) were determined for the two routes: a strong inverse nitrogen isotope effect (εN = 10.56 ± 0.36‰) and an insignificant carbon isotope effect (εC = 0.37 ± 0.36‰) for the aerobic process versus a negligible effect for both elements in the anaerobic process. These trends differ from formerly reported trends for the photodegradation of bromoxynil and enable one to distinguish between the processes in the field.
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- Nadav Knossow
- Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Sede Boqer Campus , Sede Boqer 8499000 , Israel
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- Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Sede Boqer Campus , Sede Boqer 8499000 , Israel
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- Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Sede Boqer Campus , Sede Boqer 8499000 , Israel
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Xu Y, Gregory KB, VanBriesen JM. Reduction in sulfate inhibition of microbial dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls in Hudson and Grasse River sediments through fatty acid supplementation. CHEMOSPHERE 2019; 233:81-91. [PMID: 31170587 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.05.211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2018] [Revised: 05/22/2019] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Microbial dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in aquatic sediments may reduce the need for dredging for remediation. To better understand this biotransformation route under different geochemical conditions, the influence of sulfate on dechlorination in sediments from the Hudson River and the Grasse River spiked with two PCB mixtures (PCB 5/12, 64/71, 105/114 and 149/153/170 in Mixture 1 and PCB 5/12, 64/71, 82/97/99, 144/170 in Mixture 2) was investigated. The results showed that PCB dechlorination was partially inhibited in the sulfate-amended sediment microcosms. The rate, extent and preference of dechlorination were mainly controlled by the indigenous differences (sulfate, carbon content etc.) in sediment, but also affected by the PCB mixture composition. An increase of Dehalococcoides 16S rRNA genes coincided with the resumption of dechlorination. Dechlorination preferences were identified using a modified dechlorination pathway analysis approach. The low carbon content and high background sulfate Hudson sediment exhibited more para dechlorination targeting flanked para chlorines. The high carbon content and low background sulfate Grasse sediment preferentially removed more para-flanked meta chlorines than flanked para chlorines. The supplementation of fatty acids (acetate or a mixture of acetate, propionate and butyrate) dramatically increased PCB dechlorination in the Grasse sediment by resuming ortho-flanked meta dechlorination. Rare ortho removals were found in the Grasse sediment after adding fatty acids. This study suggests that supplementary fatty acids might be used to stimulate PCB dechlorination under sulfate reducing conditions, but the effectiveness largely depends on sediment geochemistry.
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- Yan Xu
- Department of Municipal Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210096, China; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213-3890, PA, United States.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213-3890, PA, United States.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213-3890, PA, United States.
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Kaya D, Sowers KR, Demirtepe H, Stiell B, Baker JE, Imamoglu I, Kjellerup BV. Assessment of PCB contamination, the potential for in situ microbial dechlorination and natural attenuation in an urban watershed at the East Coast of the United States. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 683:154-165. [PMID: 31129325 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Sediment contamination is a major environmental issue in many urban watersheds and coastal areas due to the potential toxic effects of contaminants on biota and human health. Characterizing and delineating areas of sediment contamination and toxicity are important goals of coastal resource management in terms of ecological and economical perspectives. Core and surficial sediment samples were collected from an industrialized urban watershed at the East Coast of the United Stated and analyzed to evaluate the PCB contamination profile and toxicity resulting from dioxin-like PCBs as well as reductive dechlorination potential of indigenous PCB halorespiring bacteria through dechlorination activity assays. To support the experimental results an anaerobic dechlorination model was applied to identify microbial dechlorination pathways. The total PCB concentration in core samples ranged from 3.9 to 225.6 ng/g·dry weight (dw) decreasing with depth compared to 353.2 to 1213.7 ng/g·dw in surficial samples. The results of this study indicated an increase in PCB contamination over the last century as the industrial activity intensified. The toxicity resulting from dioxin-like PCBs was reduced up to 94% in core samples via 21 pathways resulting from the dechlorination model. Dechlorination rates in surficial sediment were between 1.8 and 13.2 · 10-3 mol% PCB116/day, while lower rates occurred in the core sediment samples. Dechlorination was achieved mainly through meta followed by para dechlorination. However, the rarer ortho dechlorination was also observed. Detection of indigenous PCB dechlorinating bacteria in the sediments and reduction of toxicity indicated potential for natural attenuation when point and nonpoint source PCBs in the urban watershed are controlled and PCB loading reduced.
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- Devrim Kaya
- University of Maryland College Park, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1146 Glenn L. Martin Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- University of Maryland Baltimore County, Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology, 701 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
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- Middle East Technical University, Department of Environmental Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
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- University of Washington Tacoma, The Center for Urban Waters, 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402-3100, USA
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- Middle East Technical University, Department of Environmental Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
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- University of Maryland College Park, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1146 Glenn L. Martin Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Needham TP, Payne RB, Sowers KR, Ghosh U. Kinetics of PCB Microbial Dechlorination Explained by Freely Dissolved Concentration in Sediment Microcosms. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2019; 53:7432-7441. [PMID: 31132852 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b01088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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While microbial dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) has been observed in sediments over the last 3 decades, translation to the field has been difficult due to a lack of a clear understanding of the kinetic limitations. To address this issue, the present study used passive dosing/sampling to accurately measure the biological rate of dechlorination of 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB 61) to 2,3,5-trichlorobiphenyl (PCB 23) by an organohalide-respiring bacterium, Dehalobium chlorocoercia (DF-1). The biological rates were measured over an environmentally relevant concentration range of 1-50 ng/L of freely dissolved concentrations with and without the presence of sediment in bench-scale microcosm studies. The rate of dechlorination was found to be linearly dependent on the freely dissolved concentration of PCB 61 both in sediment and in sediment-free microcosms. The observed rate of dechlorination in sediment microcosms could be predicted within a factor of 2 based on the kinetics measured in sediment-free microcosms. A threshold for dechlorination was not observed down to an aqueous concentration of about 1 ng/L PCB 61. We demonstrate that with the combination of an accurate measurement of the aqueous-phase dechlorination kinetics and an understanding of the site-specific partitioning characteristics, it is possible to predict PCB microbial dechlorination in sediments.
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Demirtepe H, Imamoglu I. Degradation of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) in microcosms mimicking sediment environment subjected to comparative bioremediation strategies. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 233:120-130. [PMID: 30576959 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.11.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Revised: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The aim of this study was to examine bioremediation strategies for BDE-209 contaminated sediments. Sediment microcosms were established to observe anaerobic debromination of BDE-209 under conditions representing three bioremediation strategies: biostimulation, bioaugmentation and natural attenuation. To simulate biostimulation, a defined mineral medium containing both a carbon source (sodium formate) and electron donor (ethanol) was added into sediments. Bioaugmentation was established by enrichment of the sediments using a culture of Dehalobium chlorocoercia strain DF-1, previously shown to dechlorinate polychlorinated biphenyls, to sediments. No amendments were made to the third set in order to represent natural attenuation. The biostimulation, bioaugmentation and natural attenuation strategies resulted in 55.3%, 40.2% and 30.9% reductions in BDE-209, respectively, after 180 days. Nona- through tri-BDEs were observed as products, with 17 PBDE congeners detected in 25 different proposed debromination pathways. At the end of the 180 day incubation period, the products for bioaugmentation, biostimulation and natural attenuation were tri-BDEs, tetra-BDEs and penta-BDEs, respectively. The proposed pathways revealed that meta- and ortho-Br removal were favored in sediments, and that debromination regiospecificity varied with each bioremediation strategy applied. Lastly, pseudo-first-order rate constants for BDE-209 reduction were calculated as 0.0049 d-1, 0.0028 d-1, 0.0025 d-1 for biostimulation, bioaugmentation and natural attenuation, respectively.
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- Hale Demirtepe
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey.
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): Environmental Fate, Challenges and Bioremediation. MICROORGANISMS FOR SUSTAINABILITY 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-7462-3_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Capozzi SL, Bodenreider C, Prieto A, Payne RB, Sowers KR, Kjellerup BV. Colonization and growth of dehalorespiring biofilms on carbonaceous sorptive amendments. BIOFOULING 2019; 35:50-58. [PMID: 30786761 DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2018.1563892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Removal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from contaminated sediments is a priority due to accumulation in the food chain. Recent success with reduction of PCB bioavailability due to adsorption onto activated carbon led to the recognition of in situ treatment as a remediation approach. In this study, reduced bioavailability and subsequent break-down of PCBs in dehalorespiring biofilms was investigated using Dehalobium chlorocoercia DF1. DF1 formed a patchy biofilm ranging in thickness from 3.9 to 6.7 µm (average 4.6 ± 0.87 µm), while the biofilm coverage varied from 5.5% (sand) to 20.2% (activated carbon), indicating a preference for sorptive materials. Quantification of DF1 biofilm bacteria showed 1.2-15.3 × 109 bacteria per gram of material. After 22 days, coal activated carbon, bone biochar, polyoxymethylene, and sand microcosms had dechlorinated 73%, 93%, 100%, and 83%, respectively. These results show that a biofilm-based inoculum for bioaugmentation of PCBs in sediment can be an efficient approach.
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- Staci L Capozzi
- a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Maryland , College Park , MD , USA
- b Geosyntec Consultants , Columbia , MD , USA
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- a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Maryland , College Park , MD , USA
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- c Department of Civil Engineering , Universidad de Chile , Santiago , Chile
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- d Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology , University of Maryland Baltimore County , Baltimore , MD , USA
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- d Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology , University of Maryland Baltimore County , Baltimore , MD , USA
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- a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Maryland , College Park , MD , USA
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Matturro B, Frascadore E, Rossetti S. High-throughput sequencing revealed novel Dehalococcoidia in dechlorinating microbial enrichments from PCB-contaminated marine sediments. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2018; 93:4443194. [PMID: 29040506 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fix134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2017] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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In this study, six PCE-to-ethene dechlorinating cultures, fed with a fermentable substrate (lactate) or hydrogen as electron donor, were obtained from PCB and PCE dechlorinating microcosms constructed with PCB-contaminated marine sediments. A novel Chloroflexi member (OTU-DIS1) affiliated to Dehalococcoidales Incertae Sedis, only distantly related to known dechlorinating bacteria, dominated the enrichment cultures (up to 86% of total OTUs). Sulfate-, thiosulfate- and sulfur-reducing bacteria affiliated to genera Desulfobacter, Dethiosulfatibacter and Desulfuromusa were also found to lesser extent. Remarkably, tceA, vcrA and the bifunctional PCE/PCB dehalogenase genes pcbA1, pcbA4 and pcbA5 were found in all dechlorinating microbial enrichments indicating the coexistence of different Dehalococcoides mccartyi strains. The reductive dechlorination rate in each culture remained unvaried over long-term operation (≈ 30 months) and ranged between 0.85 and 0.97 mmol Cl-1 released L-1 d-1 in the lactate-fed microbial enrichments and between 0.66 and 0.85 mmol Cl-1 released L-1 d-1 in the H2-fed microbial enrichments. Overall, this study highlights the presence of yet unexplored biodiversity in PCBs contaminated marine sediments and indicates these environments as promising sources of novel organohalide-respiring bacteria.
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- Bruna Matturro
- Water Research Institute, IRSA-CNR, Via Salaria km 29,300, 00015 Monterotondo (RM), Italy
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- Water Research Institute, IRSA-CNR, Via Salaria km 29,300, 00015 Monterotondo (RM), Italy
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- Water Research Institute, IRSA-CNR, Via Salaria km 29,300, 00015 Monterotondo (RM), Italy
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Kaya D, Imamoglu I, Sanin FD, Sowers KR. A comparative evaluation of anaerobic dechlorination of PCB-118 and Aroclor 1254 in sediment microcosms from three PCB-impacted environments. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2018; 341:328-335. [PMID: 28800567 PMCID: PMC5593791 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Aroclor 1254 (A1254) is the most toxic commercial PCB mixture produced, primarily due to its relatively high concentrations of dioxin-like congeners. This study demonstrates a comparative evaluation of dechlorination of A1254 and PCB-118 by indigenous organohalide respiring bacteria enriched from three PCB impacted sites: Grasse River (GR), NY; Fox River (FR), WI; and Baltimore Harbor (BH), MD. PCB-118 dechlorination rates in GR, BH, and FR was 0.0308, 0.015, and 0.0006 Cl-/biphenyl/day, respectively. A1254 dechlorination rates in GR, FR, and BH were 0.0153, 0.0144, and 0.0048 Cl-/biphenyl/day, respectively. A1254 dechlorination was achieved through the removal of doubly-/singly-flanked chlorines in meta and para positions of mostly penta- followed by hexa- and hepta-chlorinated congeners by 88%, 69%, and 51% in GR, and 88%, 87%, and 83% in FR, respectively, while in BH mostly hepta- (70%) followed by hexa-chlorinated congeners (66%) were dechlorinated. A previously developed Anaerobic Dechlorination Model (ADM) quantified a total of 17 toxicity-related dechlorination pathways in all three sediment microcosms. The toxic equivalency of A1254 based on seven dioxin-like congeners decreased by about 53%, 45% and 21%, in GR, FR and BH microcosms, respectively. The dechlorination products were generally tetra- and tri-chlorinated congeners with unflanked chlorines, all of which is susceptible to further degradation by aerobic bacteria. Concerning the toxic congeners, ADM can be useful to initiate further research focusing on the stimulation of the toxicity reducing pathways for risk assessment and effective remediation strategies.
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- Devrim Kaya
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Rosińska A, Karwowska B. Dynamics of changes in coplanar and indicator PCB in sewage sludge during mesophilic methane digestion. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2017; 323:341-349. [PMID: 27166779 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Revised: 04/07/2016] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Research was conducted, which aim was to evaluate the influence of mesophilic methane digestion on degradation of coplanar and indicator PCB in sewage sludge, and on dynamics of changes of these congeners during the process. For the research, sewage sludge from a municipal wastewater treatment plant were used. Mesophilic digestion was conducted at the temperature of 36°C±1°C. The anaerobic stabilization processes of sewage sludge occurred correctly what was confirmed by appropriate values of pH, content of volatile fatty acids (VFA) and ratio of VFA to alkalinity. Biodegradation of organic compounds in sewage sludge was confirmed by the decrease in total solids (by 26%) and volatile solids (by 36%). Up to the 3rd day of the digestion process no statistically significant differences in concentration of both coplanar and indicator PCB was observed. During the following days of the process, an increase in lower chlorinated PCB concentration was demonstrated and a decrease in concentration of higher chlorinated congeners (penta-, hexa-, and heptachlorobiphenyls). After the digestion, a decrease in higher chlorinated congener concentration was found. Significant degradation was demonstrated for coplanar PCB 169 (from 77.8 to 80.5%), and indicator PCB 180 (from 57.1 to 90.3%) and PCB 153 (from 60.4 to 79.2%).
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- A Rosińska
- Department of Chemistry, Water and Wastewater Technology, Czestochowa University of Technology, Dąbrowskiego 69 Str, 42-200 Częstochowa, Poland.
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- Department of Chemistry, Water and Wastewater Technology, Czestochowa University of Technology, Dąbrowskiego 69 Str, 42-200 Częstochowa, Poland
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Dam HT, Häggblom MM. Impact of estuarine gradients on reductive dechlorination of 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in river sediment enrichment cultures. CHEMOSPHERE 2017; 168:1177-1185. [PMID: 27817900 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.10.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2016] [Revised: 09/17/2016] [Accepted: 10/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) are among the most persistent organic pollutants. Although the total input of PCDDs into the environment has decreased substantially over the past four decades, their input via non-point sources is still increasing, especially in estuarine metropolitan areas. Here we report on the microbially mediated reductive dechlorination of PCDDs in anaerobic enrichment cultures established from sediments collected from five locations along the Hackensack River, NJ and investigate the impacts of sediment physicochemical characteristics on dechlorination activity. Dechlorination of 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (1,2,3,4-TeCDD) and abundance of Dehalococcoides spp. negatively correlated with salinity and sulfate concentration in sediments used to establish the cultures. 1,2,3,4-TeCDD was dechlorinated to a lesser extent in cultures established from sediments from the tidally influenced estuarine mouth of the river. In cultures established from low salinity sediments, 1,2,3,4-TeCDD was reductively dechlorinated with the accumulation of 2-monochlorodibenzo-p-dioxin as the major product. Sulfate concentrations above 2 mM inhibited 1,2,3,4-TecDD dechlorination activity. Consecutive lateral- and peri- dechlorination took place in enrichment cultures with a minimal accumulation of 2,3-dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in active cultures. A Dehalococcoides spp. community was enriched and accounted for up to 64% of Chloroflexi detected in these sediment cultures.
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- Hang T Dam
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 76 Lipman Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 76 Lipman Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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Kaya D, Imamoglu I, Sanin FD, Payne RB, Sowers KR. Potential risk reduction of Aroclor 1254 by microbial dechlorination in anaerobic Grasse River sediment microcosms. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2017; 321:879-887. [PMID: 27745958 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Revised: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Aroclor 1254 was the second most produced commercial PCB mixture and is found in soils, sediments and sewage throughout the globe. This commercial PCB mixture is considered particularly toxic because of the relatively high concentrations of congeners with dioxin-like properties. The potential for risk reduction by microbial reductive dechlorination of Aroclor 1254 (A1254) was investigated in sediment microcosms from Grasse River (GR), Massena, NY. The specificity of A1254 dechlorination was doubly- and singly-flanked chlorines in meta positions and to a less extent doubly-flanked para chlorines of 2345-substituted chlorobiphenyl rings. The average dechlorination rate of A1254 was 0.0153 Cl-/biphenyl/day, and dechlorination rates of single congeners ranged between 0.001 and 0.0074 Cl-/biphenyl/day. Potential risk associated with A1254 based on the toxic equivalency factors of the dioxin-like congeners was reduced by 83%. Additional potential risk associated with bioaccumulation in fish was reduced by 35% based on biota-sediment accumulation factor estimates for all detected congeners. Finally, the dechlorination end-products were tri- and tetra-chlorobiphenyls with unflanked chlorines, all of which are susceptible to further degradation by aerobic microorganisms. The combined results indicate that microbial reductive dechlorination has the potential for reducing risk associated with toxicity and bioaccumulation in fish in sites contaminated with A1254.
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- Devrim Kaya
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Environmental Engineering, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Xu Y, Gregory KB, VanBriesen JM. Microbial-Catalyzed Reductive Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Hudson and Grasse River Sediment Microcosms: Determination of Dechlorination Preferences and Identification of Rare Ortho Removal Pathways. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:12767-12778. [PMID: 27786438 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is an important transformation and detoxification route in the environment. To better understand the influence of PCB congener compositions on dechlorination, sediments from two rivers, Hudson and Grasse, and two PCB mixtures (PCB 5/12, 64/71, 105/114, and 149/153/170 in Mixture 1 and PCB 5/12, 64/71, 82/97/99, and 144/170 in Mixture 2) were used for this microcosm study. The Grasse River sediment microcosms exhibited more extensive dechlorination than the Hudson River sediment microcosms. The extent of dechlorination was predominantly controlled by sediment itself, not by the PCB compositions. Rare ortho dechlorination, targeting mono-ortho PCB congeners was observed in Grasse sediment, indicating a potential for full dechlorination of some PCBs in this sediment. The identified ortho dechlorination pathways were PCB 28 (24-4-CB) to PCB 15 (4-4-CB) and PCB 25 (24-3-CB) to PCB 13(3-4-CB). The relative abundances of Dehalococcoides were much higher in both sediments spiked with PCBs. An apparent increase of Dehalococcoides 16S rRNA genes coincided with the commencement of dechlorination. The dechlorination preferences were identified using a modified data analysis approach focusing on chlorine neighboring conditions. In both sediments, the overall dechlorination preferred meta > para > ortho. Specially, ortho-/double-flanked meta-chlorines were primarily targeted followed by single-/double-flanked para-chlorines.
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- Yan Xu
- Department of Municipal Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University , Nanjing, Jiangsu China , 210096
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890, United States
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Yu H, Feng C, Liu X, Yi X, Ren Y, Wei C. Enhanced anaerobic dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyl in sediments by bioanode stimulation. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2016; 211:81-9. [PMID: 26745393 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.12.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Revised: 12/17/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The application of a low-voltage electric field as an electron donor or acceptor to promote the bioremediation of chlorinated organic compounds represents a promising technology meeting the demand of developing an efficient and cost-effective strategy for in situ treatment of PCB-contaminated sediments. Here, we reported that bioanode stimulation with an anodic potential markedly enhanced dechlorination of 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB 61) contained in the sediment at an electronic waste recycling site of Qingyuan, Guangdong, China. The 110-day incubation of the bioanode with a potential poised at 0.2 V relative to saturated calomel electrode enabled 58% transformation of the total PCB 61 at the initial concentration of 100 μmol kg(-1), while only 23% was reduced in the open-circuit reference experiment. The introduction of acetate to the bioelectrochemical reactor (BER) further improved PCB 61 transformation to 82%. Analysis of the bacterial composition showed significant community shifts in response to variations in treatment. At phylum level, the bioanode stimulation resulted in substantially increased abundance of Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Chloroflexi either capable of PCB dechlorination, or detected in the PCB-contaminated environment. At genus level, the BER contained two types of microorganisms: electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) represented by Geobacter, Ignavibacterium, and Dysgonomonas, and dechlorinating bacteria including Hydrogenophaga, Alcanivorax, Sedimentibacter, Dehalogenimonas, Comamonas and Vibrio. These results suggest that the presence of EAB can promote the population of dechlorinating bacteria which are responsible for PCB 61 transformation.
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- Hui Yu
- The Key Lab of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- The Key Lab of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China.
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- The Key Lab of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- The Key Lab of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- The Key Lab of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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- The Key Lab of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
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Demirtepe H, Kjellerup B, Sowers KR, Imamoglu I. Evaluation of PCB dechlorination pathways in anaerobic sediment microcosms using an anaerobic dechlorination model. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2015; 296:120-127. [PMID: 25913678 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.04.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2014] [Revised: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 04/11/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A detailed quantitative analysis of anaerobic dechlorination (AD) pathways of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sediment microcosms was performed by applying an anaerobic dechlorination model (ADM). The purpose of ADM is to systematically analyze changes in a contaminant profile that result from microbial reductive dechlorination according to empirically determined dechlorination pathways. In contrast to prior studies that utilized modeling tools to predict dechlorination pathways, ADM also provides quantification of individual pathways. As only microbial reductive dechlorination of PCBs occurred in the modeled laboratory microcosms, extensive analysis of AD pathways was possible without the complicating effect of concurrent physico-chemical or other weathering mechanisms. The results from this study showed: (1) ninety three AD pathways are active; (2) tetra- to hepta-chlorobiphenyl (CB) congeners were common intermediates in several AD pathways, penta-CBs being the most frequently observed; (3) the highest rates of dechlorination were for penta-CB homologs during the initial 185 days; (4) the dominant terminal products of AD were PCB 32(26-4), 49(24-25), 51(24-26), 52(25-25), 72(25-35), 73(26-35) and 100(246-24), (5) potential toxicity of the sediment was reduced. ADM serves as a powerful tool not only for a thorough analysis of AD pathways, but also for providing necessary input for numerical fate models (as a degradation term) that investigate dechlorination products or outcome of natural attenuation, or bioremediation/bioaugmentation of PCB-impacted sediments.
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- Hale Demirtepe
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- A. James Clark School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, Department of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
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Microbial dehalogenation of organohalides in marine and estuarine environments. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2015; 33:287-95. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2015.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2014] [Revised: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Lombard N, Ghosh U, Kjellerup BV, Sowers KR. Kinetics and threshold level of 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobiphenyl dechlorination by an organohalide respiring bacterium. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2014; 48:4353-60. [PMID: 24625226 PMCID: PMC3993611 DOI: 10.1021/es404265d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2013] [Revised: 02/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The time required for a PCB-contaminated site to recover cannot yet be predicted due in part to lack of quantitative information on rates of PCB dechlorination in the porewater phase. We developed a method to measure rate of dechlorination in the aqueous phase at very low PCB concentrations. This approach utilizes a polymer functioning concurrently as a passive dosing system for maintaining a steady-state PCB substrate concentration in the water phase and as a passive equilibrium sampler to monitor the dechlorination product. Rates of dechlorination of 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB 61) to 2,3,5-trichlorobiphenyl (PCB 23) by an organohalide respiring bacterium, Dehalobium chlorocoercia DF-1, were measured over an environmentally relevant range of 1 to 500 ng L(-1) in sediment-free medium using a high concentration of cells (>10(6) cells mL(-1)). The results indicate that rate of dechlorination is a linear function of PCB substrate concentration below the maximum aqueous solubility of PCB 61 and occurs at concentrations as low as 1 ng L(-1). Demonstration of PCB 61 dechlorination at environmentally relevant concentrations suggests that low numbers of organohalide respiring bacteria rather than bioavailability accounts for low rates of dechlorination typically observed in sediments. Using passive samplers to measure the concentration of dissolved PCBs in the porewater combined with knowledge of congener-specific rates for organohalide respirer(s), it will be possible to project the in situ rate and final concentration of PCBs for a specific site after treatment by bioaugmentation.
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- Nathalie
J. Lombard
- Department of Marine Biotechnology,
Institute of Marine Environmental
Technology, and Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21204, United States
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology,
Institute of Marine Environmental
Technology, and Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21204, United States
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- Department
of Biological Sciences, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21204, United States
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology,
Institute of Marine Environmental
Technology, and Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21204, United States
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Kjellerup BV, Naff C, Edwards SJ, Ghosh U, Baker JE, Sowers KR. Effects of activated carbon on reductive dechlorination of PCBs by organohalide respiring bacteria indigenous to sediments. WATER RESEARCH 2014; 52:1-10. [PMID: 24440760 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Revised: 12/11/2013] [Accepted: 12/23/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have accumulated in aquatic sediments due to their inherent chemical stability and their presence poses a risk due to their potential toxicity in humans and animals. Granular activated carbon (GAC) has been applied to PCB contaminated sediment sites to reduce the aqueous concentration by sequestration thus reducing the PCB exposure and toxicity to both benthic and aquatic organisms. However, it is not known how the reduction of PCB bioavailability by adsorption to GAC affects bacterial transformation of PCBs by indigenous organohalide respiring bacteria. In this study, the impact of GAC on anaerobic dechlorination by putative organohalide respiring bacteria indigenous to sediment from Baltimore Harbor was examined. It was shown that the average Cl/biphenyl after dehalogenation of Aroclor 1260 was similar between treatments with and without GAC amendment. However, GAC caused a substantial shift in the congener distribution whereby a smaller fraction of highly chlorinated congeners was more extensively dechlorinated to mono- through tri-chlorinated congeners compared to the formation of tri- through penta-chlorinated congeners in unamended sediment. The results combined with comparative sequence analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences suggest that GAC caused a community shift to putative organohalide respiring phylotypes that coincided with more extensive dechlorination of ortho and unflanked chlorines. This shift in activity by GAC shown here for the first time has the potential to promote greater degradation in situ by promoting accumulation of less chlorinated congeners that are generally more susceptible to complete mineralization by aerobic PCB degrading bacteria.
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- B V Kjellerup
- Goucher College, Department of Biological Sciences, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204, USA.
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, Columbus Center, University of Maryland, 701 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
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- Goucher College, Department of Biological Sciences, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204, USA
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- University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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- Center for Urban Waters, University of Washington-Tacoma, 326 East D Street, Tacoma, WA 98421, USA
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, Columbus Center, University of Maryland, 701 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
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Kaya D, Imamoglu I, Dilek Sanin F. Impact of PCB-118 and transformer oil toxicity on anaerobic digestion of sludge: anaerobic toxicity assay results. CHEMOSPHERE 2013; 92:821-827. [PMID: 23683868 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.04.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2012] [Revised: 02/18/2013] [Accepted: 04/18/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In this study, possible toxicity of increasing doses of PCB-118 and transformer oil (TO) on anaerobic sludge digestion was investigated. For this purpose, five different sets of reactors were prepared in which four different PCB-118 concentration (1, 10, 20, and 30mgL(-1)) and three different TO concentration (0.38, 0.76, and 1.52gL(-1)) were applied. Throughout the study, biogas production and composition, pH, TS, VS, and COD as well as PCB concentration were monitored. Toxicity was investigated by anaerobic toxicity assay (ATA) evaluating the reduction in methane production. A notable inhibition was observed mostly in 30mgL(-1) PCB reactors. A negative influence of PCB-118 and TO was observed on COD and solids removal. A maximum of 26.5% PCB-118 removal was attained.
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- Devrim Kaya
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey.
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Wang S, He J. Phylogenetically distinct bacteria involve extensive dechlorination of aroclor 1260 in sediment-free cultures. PLoS One 2013; 8:e59178. [PMID: 23554991 PMCID: PMC3598663 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 02/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Microbial reductive dechlorination of the persistent polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is attracting much attention in cleanup of the contaminated environment. Nevertheless, most PCB dechlorinating cultures require presence of sediment or sediment substitutes to maintain their dechlorination activities which hinders subsequent bacterial enrichment and isolation processes. The information on enriching sediment-free PCB dechlorinating cultures is still limited. In this study, 18 microcosms established with soils and sediments were screened for their dechlorination activities on a PCB mixture – Aroclor 1260. After one year of incubation, 10 out of 18 microcosms showed significant PCB dechlorination with distinct dechlorination patterns (e.g., Process H, N and T classified based on profiles of PCB congeners loss and new congeners formation). Through serial transfers in defined medium, six sediment-free PCB dechlorinating cultures (i.e., CW-4, CG-1, CG-3, CG-4, CG-5 and SG-1) were obtained without amending any sediment or sediment-substitutes. PCB dechlorination Process H was the most frequently observed dechlorination pattern, which was found in four sediment-free cultures (CW-4, CG-3, CG-4 and SG-1). Sediment-free culture CG-5 showed the most extensive PCB dechlorination among the six cultures, which was mediated by Process N, resulting in the accumulation of penta- (e.g., 236-24-CB) and tetra-chlorobiphenyls (tetra-CBs) (e.g., 24-24-CB, 24-25-CB, 24-26-CB and 25-26-CB) via dechlorinating 30.44% hepta-CBs and 59.12% hexa-CBs after three months of incubation. For culture CG-1, dechlorinators mainly attacked double flanked meta-chlorines and partially ortho-chlorines, which might represent a novel dechlorination pattern. Phylogenetic analysis showed distinct affiliation of PCB dechlorinators in the microcosms, including Dehalogenimonas and Dehalococcoides species. This study broadens our knowledge in microbial reductive dechlorination of PCBs, and provides essential information for culturing and stimulating PCB dechlorinators for in situ bioremediation applications.
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- Shanquan Wang
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Gomes HI, Dias-Ferreira C, Ribeiro AB. Overview of in situ and ex situ remediation technologies for PCB-contaminated soils and sediments and obstacles for full-scale application. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2013; 445-446:237-60. [PMID: 23334318 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2012] [Revised: 11/28/2012] [Accepted: 11/28/2012] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) are persistent organic pollutants used worldwide between the 1930s and 1980s. Although their use has been heavily restricted, PCB can be found in contaminated soils and sediments. The most frequent remediation solutions adopted are "dig and dump" and "dig and incinerate", but there are currently new methods that could be more sustainable alternatives. This paper takes a look into the remediation options available for PCB-contaminated soils and sediments, differentiating between biological, chemical, physical and thermal methods. The use of combined technologies was also reviewed. Most of them are still in an initial development stage and further research in different implementation issues is needed. There is no single technology that is the solution for PCB contamination problem. The successful remediation of a site will depend on proper selection, design and adjustment of the technology or combined technologies to the site characteristics.
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- Helena I Gomes
- CENSE - Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
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Payne RB, May HD, Sowers KR. Enhanced reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyl impacted sediment by bioaugmentation with a dehalorespiring bacterium. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2011; 45:8772-9. [PMID: 21902247 PMCID: PMC3210572 DOI: 10.1021/es201553c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Anaerobic reductive dehalogenation of commercial PCBs such as Aroclor 1260 has a critical role of transforming highly chlorinated congeners to less chlorinated congeners that are then susceptible to aerobic degradation. The efficacy of bioaugmentation with the dehalorespiring bacterium Dehalobium chlorocoercia DF1 was tested in 2-L laboratory mesocosms containing sediment contaminated with weathered Aroclor 1260 (1.3 ppm) from Baltimore Harbor, MD. Total penta- and higher chlorinated PCBs decreased by approximately 56% (by mass) in bioaugmented mesocosms after 120 days compared with no activity observed in unamended controls. Bioaugmentation with DF-1 enhanced the dechlorination of doubly flanked chlorines and stimulated the dechlorination of single flanked chlorines as a result of an apparent synergistic effect on the indigenous population. Addition of granulated activated carbon had a slight stimulatory effect indicating that anaerobic reductive dechlorination of PCBs at low concentrations was not inhibited by a high background of inorganic carbon that could affect bioavailability. The total number of dehalorespiring bacteria was reduced by approximately half after 60 days. However, a steady state level was maintained that was greater than the indigenous population of putative dehalorespiring bacteria in untreated sediments and DF1 was maintained within the indigenous population after 120 days. The results of this study demonstrate that bioaugmentation with dehalorespiring bacteria has a stimulatory effect on the dechlorination of weathered PCBs and supports the feasibility of using in situ bioaugmentation as an environmentally less invasive and lower cost alternate to dredging for treatment of PCB impacted sediments.
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- Rayford B Payne
- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD
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- Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Science Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston SC
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD
- Corresponding author: Kevin Sowers, Department of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, 701 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Telephone: (410) 234-8878/FAX: (410) 234-8896,
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Fagervold SK, Watts JEM, May HD, Sowers KR. Effects of bioaugmentation on indigenous PCB dechlorinating activity in sediment microcosms. WATER RESEARCH 2011; 45:3899-3907. [PMID: 21601905 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.04.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2011] [Revised: 04/27/2011] [Accepted: 04/27/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Bioaugmentation is an attractive mechanism for reducing recalcitrant pollutants in sediments, especially if this technology could be applied in situ. To examine the potential effectiveness of a bioaugmentation strategy for PCB contamination, PCB dehalorespiring populations were inoculated into Baltimore Harbor sediment microcosms. A culture containing the two most predominant indigenous PCB dehalorespiring microorganisms and a culture containing a strain with a rare ortho dechlorination activity and a non-indigenous strain that attacks double-flanked chlorines, were inoculated into sediment microcosms amended with 2,2',3,5,5',6-hexachlorobiphenyl (PCB 151) and Aroclor 1260. Although we observed a similar reduction in the concentration of PCB 151 in all microcosms at day 300, a reduced lag time for dechlorination activity was observed only in the bioaugmented microcosms and the pattern of dechlorination was altered depending on the initial combination of microorganisms added. Dechlorination of Aroclor 1260 was most extensive when dehalorespiring microorganisms were added to sediment. Overall numbers of dehalorespiring microorganisms in both bioaugmented and non-bioaugmented microcosms increased 100- and 1000-fold with PCB 151 and Aroclor 1260, respectively, and they were sustained for the full 300 days of the experiments. The ability of bioaugmentation to redirect dechlorination reactions in the sediment microcosms indicates that the inoculated PCB dehalorespiring microorganisms effectively competed with the indigenous microbial populations and cooperatively enhanced or altered the specific pathways of PCB dechlorination. These observations indicate that bioaugmentation with PCB dehalorespiring microorganisms is a potentially tractable approach for in situ treatment of PCB impacted sites.
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- Sonja K Fagervold
- Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 701 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
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Ho CH, Liu SM. Effect of coplanar PCB concentration on dechlorinating microbial communities and dechlorination in estuarine sediments. CHEMOSPHERE 2011; 82:48-55. [PMID: 21030061 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2010] [Revised: 09/01/2010] [Accepted: 10/03/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The effect of concentration of coplanar PCB on the dechlorinating microbial community and dechlorination were investigated in anoxic estuarine sediment collected from Er-Jen River and enriched with 10 and 50 mg L⁻¹ of 3,4,4',5-tetrachlorobiphenyl, 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl, and 3,3',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobipheny. Dechlorination rates were similar in the cultures enriched with 10 and 50 mg L⁻¹ of 3,4,4',5-tetrachlorobiphenyl, whereas significantly higher dechlorination rates were observed in cultures enriched with 10 mg L⁻¹ of 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl. No dechlorination was observed in sediment slurries enriched with 3,3',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobipheny. Para dechlorination occurred prior to meta dechlorination during reductive dechlorination of 3,4,4',5-tetrachlorobiphenyl and 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl. GC-MS and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) were used to detect dechlorination products and dechlorinating microorganisms in the enriched sediment cultures during the process of degradation. Two Chloroflexi phylotypes observed in DGGE were responsible for para and meta dechlorination respectively. Phylotype Cp-1 has 98% similarity to uncultured bacterium N5-12. Phylotype Cm-1 has 99% similarity to uncultured dechlorinating bacterium m1 or SF1 belonging to the ο-17/DF-1 group of PCB-dechlorinating bacteria.
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- Chuan Hsin Ho
- Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, ROC
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Beyer A, Biziuk M. Environmental fate and global distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls. REVIEWS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 2009; 201:137-58. [PMID: 19484591 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0032-6_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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In recent decades, regulators, academia, and industry have all paid increasing attention to the crucial task of determining how xenobiotic exposures affect biota populations, communities, or entire ecosystems. For decades, PCBs have been recognized as important and potentially harmful environmental contaminants. The intrinsic properties of PCBs, such as high environmental persistence, resistance to metabolism in organisms, and tendency to accumulate in lipids have contributed to their ubiquity in environmental media and have induced concern for their toxic effects after prolonged exposure. PCBs are bioaccumulated mainly by aquatic and terrestrial organisms and thus enter the food web. Humans and wildlife that consume contaminated organisms can also accumulate PCBs in their tissues. Such accumulation is of concern, because it may lead to body burdens of PCBs that could have adverse health effects in humans and wildlife. PCBs may affect not only individual organisms but ultimately whole ecosystems. Moreover, PCBs are slower to biodegrade in the environment than are many other organic chemicals. The low water solubility and the low vapor pressure of PCBs, coupled with air, water, and sediment transport processes, means that they are readily transported from local or regional sites of contamination to remote areas. PCBs are transformed mainly through microbial degradation and particularly reductive dechlorination via organisms that take them up. Metabolism by microorganisms and other animals can cause relative proportions of some congeners to increase while others decrease. Because the susceptibility of PCBs to degradation and bioaccumulation is congener-specific, the composition of PCB congener mixtures that occur in the environment differs substantially from that of the original industrial mixtures released into the environment. Generally, the less-chlorinated congeners are more water soluble, more volatile, and more likely to biodegrade. On the other hand, high-chlorinated PCBs are often more resistant to degradation and volatilization and sorb more strongly to particulate matter. Some more-chlorinated PCBs tend to bioaccumulate to greater concentrations in tissues of animals than do low-molecular-weight ones. The more-heavily chlorinated PCBs can also biomagnify in food webs. Other high-molecular-weight congeners have specific structures that render them susceptible to metabolism by such species as fish, crustacea, birds, and mammals. In recent years, there has been substantial progress made in understanding the human health and ecological effects of PCBs and their environmental dynamics. However, risk assessments based only on the original PCB mixture that entered the environment are not sufficient to determine either (1) the persistence or toxicity of the weathered PCB mixture actually present in the environment, or (2) the risks to humans and the ecosystem posed by the weathered mixture. In this paper, we have reviewed the status of current knowledge on PCBs with regard to environmental inputs, global distribution, and environmental fate. We conclude that to know and understand the critical environmental fate pathways for PCBs, both a combination of field studies in real ecosystems and more controlled laboratory investigations are needed. For the future, both revised and new models on how PCBs behave in the environment are needed. Finally, more information on ow PCBs affect relevant physiological and behavioral characteristics of organisms tha are susceptible to contamination are needed.
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- Angelika Beyer
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Faculty, Gdansk University of Technology, G. Narutowicza Street 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland.
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Field JA, Sierra-Alvarez R. Microbial transformation and degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2008; 155:1-12. [PMID: 18035460 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2007] [Accepted: 10/14/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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This paper reviews the potential of microorganisms to transform polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). In anaerobic environments, higher chlorinated biphenyls can undergo reductive dehalogenation. Meta- and para-chlorines in PCB congeners are more susceptible to dechlorination than ortho-chlorines. Anaerobes catalyzing PCB dechlorination have not been isolated in pure culture but there is strong evidence from enrichment cultures that some Dehalococcoides spp. and other microorganisms within the Chloroflexi phylum can grow by linking the oxidation of H(2) to the reductive dechlorination of PCBs. Lower chlorinated biphenyls can be co-metabolized aerobically. Some aerobes can also grow by utilizing PCB congeners containing only one or two chlorines as sole carbon/energy source. An example is the growth of Burkholderia cepacia by transformation of 4-chlorobiphenyl to chlorobenzoates. The latter compounds are susceptible to aerobic mineralization. Higher chlorinated biphenyls therefore are potentially fully biodegradable in a sequence of reductive dechlorination followed by aerobic mineralization of the lower chlorinated products.
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- Jim A Field
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, PO Box 210011, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
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Kjellerup BV, Sun X, Ghosh U, May HD, Sowers KR. Site-specific microbial communities in three PCB-impacted sediments are associated with different in situ dechlorinating activities. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:1296-309. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01543.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Electricity generation by thermophilic microorganisms from marine sediment. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2008; 78:147-55. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-007-1266-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2007] [Revised: 10/25/2007] [Accepted: 10/26/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Dehalorespiration with polychlorinated biphenyls by an anaerobic ultramicrobacterium. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008; 74:2089-94. [PMID: 18223104 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01450-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Anaerobic microbial dechlorination is an important step in the detoxification and elimination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), but a microorganism capable of coupling its growth to PCB dechlorination has not been isolated. Here we describe the isolation from sediment of an ultramicrobacterium, strain DF-1, which is capable of dechlorinating PCBs containing double-flanked chlorines added as single congeners or as Aroclor 1260 in contaminated soil. The isolate requires Desulfovibrio spp. in coculture or cell extract for growth on hydrogen and PCB in mineral medium. This is the first microorganism in pure culture demonstrated to grow by dehalorespiration with PCBs and the first isolate shown to dechlorinate weathered commercial mixtures of PCBs in historically contaminated sediments. The ability of this isolate to grow on PCBs in contaminated sediments represents a significant breakthrough for the development of in situ treatment strategies for this class of persistent organic pollutants.
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Adebusoye SA, Ilori MO, Picardal FW, Amund OO. Metabolism of chlorinated biphenyls: use of 3,3'- and 3,5-dichlorobiphenyl as sole sources of carbon by natural species of Ralstonia and Pseudomonas. CHEMOSPHERE 2008; 70:656-63. [PMID: 17706746 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.06.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2007] [Revised: 06/26/2007] [Accepted: 06/26/2007] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Ralstonia sp. SA-3, Ralstonia sp. SA-4 and Pseudomonas sp. SA-6 are natural strains with a novel capacity to utilize meta-substituted dichlorobiphenyls (diCBs) hitherto not known to serve as a sole source of carbon and energy for polychlorobiphenyl-degraders. In growth experiments, axenic cultures of isolates grew logarithmically on 3,3'-diCB with generation times that ranged insignificantly (t-test, P>0.05) from 30.4 to 33.8 h. Both 3-chlorobenzoate (3-CBA) and chloride produced as metabolites were recovered in non-stoichiometric quantities. The release of chloride by the cultures lagged substantially, indicating that the initial dioxygenase attack preceded cleavage of carbon-chloride bonds and that chloride must have been released from the chlorinated hydroxypentadienoate. In the case of 3,5-diCB, SA-3 and SA-6 metabolised this substrate primarily to 3,5-CBA. The lack of chloride in the culture media coupled with stoichiometric recovery of 3,5-CBA suggests that growth by these strains occurred predominantly at the expense of the unsubstituted phenyl ring. The unique metabolic properties of these three aerobic isolates point to their potential usefulness as seeds for bioremediation of PCBs polluted environments without the need for repeated inoculation or supplementation by a primary growth substrate such as biphenyl.
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- Sunday A Adebusoye
- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Zanaveskin LN, Aver'yanov VA. Polychlorobiphenyls: problems of the pollution of the environment and technological neutralisation methods. RUSSIAN CHEMICAL REVIEWS 2007. [DOI: 10.1070/rc1998v067n08abeh000412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Baba D, Yasuta T, Yoshida N, Kimura Y, Miyake K, Inoue Y, Toyota K, Katayama A. Anaerobic biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls by a microbial consortium originated from uncontaminated paddy soil. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-007-9409-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Fagervold SK, May HD, Sowers KR. Microbial reductive dechlorination of aroclor 1260 in Baltimore harbor sediment microcosms is catalyzed by three phylotypes within the phylum Chloroflexi. Appl Environ Microbiol 2007; 73:3009-18. [PMID: 17351091 PMCID: PMC1892865 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02958-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The specific dechlorination pathways for Aroclor 1260 were determined in Baltimore Harbor sediment microcosms developed with the 11 most predominant congeners from this commercial mixture and their resulting dechlorination intermediates. Most of the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners were dechlorinated in the meta position, and the major products were tetrachlorobiphenyls with unflanked chlorines. Using PCR primers specific for the 16S rRNA genes of known PCB-dehalogenating bacteria, we detected three phylotypes within the microbial community that had the capability to dechlorinate PCB congeners present in Aroclor 1260 and identified their selective activities. Phylotype DEH10, which has a high level of sequence identity to Dehalococcoides spp., removed the double-flanked chlorine in 234-substituted congeners and exhibited a preference for para-flanked meta-chlorines when no double-flanked chlorines were available. Phylotype SF1 had similarity to the o-17/DF-1 group of PCB-dechlorinating bacteria. Phylotype SF1 dechlorinated all of the 2345-substituted congeners, mostly in the double-flanked meta position and 2356-, 236-, and 235-substituted congeners in the ortho-flanked meta position, with a few exceptions. A phylotype with 100% sequence identity to PCB-dechlorinating bacterium o-17 was responsible for an ortho and a double-flanked meta dechlorination reaction. Most of the dechlorination pathways supported the growth of all three phylotypes based on competitive PCR enumeration assays, which indicates that PCB-impacted environments have the potential to sustain populations of these PCB-dechlorinating microorganisms. The results demonstrate that the variation in dechlorination patterns of congener mixtures typically observed at different PCB impacted sites can potentially be mediated by the synergistic activities of relatively few dechlorinating species.
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- Sonja K Fagervold
- Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 701 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
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May HD, Cutter LA, Miller GS, Milliken CE, Watts JEM, Sowers KR. Stimulatory and inhibitory effects of organohalides on the dehalogenating activities of PCB-dechlorinating bacterium o-17. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2006; 40:5704-9. [PMID: 17007129 DOI: 10.1021/es052521y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Bacterium o-17, a microorganism capable of the ortho dechlorination of 2,3,5,6-polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), is a member of a sediment-free, nonmethanogenic mixed culture. The culture was examined for the ability to dechlorinate 26 PCB congeners, 12 chlorobenzenes (CBZs), and 6 chlorinated ethenes (CEs). Eight of the PCBs and 4 of the CBZs were dechlorinated including single-flanked ortho PCB chlorines, but double-flanked chlorines of PCBs and CBZs were preferentially dechlorinated. The dechlorination of three of the PCBs (2,3,4,5,6-, 2,3,4,6-, and 2,3,5,6-PCB), three of the CBZs (hexa-, penta-, and 1,2,3-CBZ), and PCE could be sustained for three or more sequential transfers of the bacterial community. Two PCBs (2,3,4- and 2,3,5-PCB), two CBZs (1,2,3,5- and 1,2,4,5-CBZ), and trichloroethene were dechlorinated only when a more extensively chlorinated parent compound was present. Aroclor 1260 and 2,4,6-PCB, not dechlorinated by the culture, inhibited the dechlorination of 2,3,5,6-PCB. Within the culture only bacterium o-17 was linked to dechlorination by PCR-DGGE analysis, confirming that this dehalogenating species was the catalyst for the dechlorination of the compounds tested. The microorganism is capable of dechlorinating several different congeners of PCBs, CBZs, and CEs, and it remains a rare example of an ortho-PCB dechlorinator. However, its limited ability to dechlorinate more extensively chlorinated congeners and Aroclor plus the inhibitory effects of some PCB congeners upon the bacterium is consistent with the observed infrequency of this reaction in the environment. An assessment of bioremediation potential of this microorganism in situ will require a greater understanding of the synergistic, cometabolic and competitive interactions of PCB dechlorinating microbial communities.
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- Harold D May
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Science Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA.
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De S, Ghosh S, Dutta SK. Congener specific polychlorinated biphenyl metabolism by human intestinal microbe Clostridium species: Comparison with human liver cell line-HepG2. Indian J Microbiol 2006; 46:199-207. [PMID: 25838614 PMCID: PMC4380240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023] Open
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Polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs), which adversely affect human fetal and infant development, are endocrine disrupter and cause neurological disorders. They may also be carcinogenic. It is not known whether these effects are due to whole PCBs or to its metabolites, produced by the human gastrointestinal system primarily the liver and/or by intestinal microbes such as Clostridium sp. The available data show that Clostridium perfringens, the most prominent species of Clostridium occurs in the human gut. C. beijerinckii is a special type of Clostridium present in the gut of autistic children with late onset autism. Since mixed cultures are better PCB metabolizers than single cultures, mixed cultures of Clostridium were used in this work. The first step in PCB degradation is the removal of the chlorine atoms and then the breaking open of the phenyl ring leading to the final degradation product: CO2. In this study, GC-MS analyses were done to examine the effect of Clostridium sp. on PCB-153 and PCB-77 and the metabolites obtained with Clostridium sp. therein. In this paper, we report that the unlike human liver cells which cannot produce any PCB metabolites. Mixed Clostridium spp. can degrade these PCBs. Clostridium spp. and were able to dechlorinate PCB 153 (hexachlorobiphenyl) to pentachlorobiphenyl and PCB 77 (tetrachlorobiphenyl) to trichlorobiphenyl. Despite considerable absorption of PCB 153 (40%) and PCB 77 (50%) in 30 minutes and 1.5 hours respectively by human liver (HepG2) cells, they can not dechlorinate PCBs. It has been observed that slight differences in chemical structures of PCBs such as coplanar (PCB-77) vs. non-coplanar (PCB-153) has significant metabolic effects.
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- Corresponding author; , Tel: (202) 806-6942; Fax: (202) 806-5832
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De J, Ramaiah N, Sarkar A. Aerobic degradation of highly chlorinated polychlorobiphenyls by a marine bacterium, Pseudomonas CH07. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-006-9179-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Zanaroli G, Pérez-Jiménez JR, Young LY, Marchetti L, Fava F. Microbial reductive dechlorination of weathered and exogenous co-planar polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in an anaerobic sediment of Venice Lagoon. Biodegradation 2006; 17:121-9. [PMID: 16477348 DOI: 10.1007/s10532-005-3752-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The occurrence of reductive dechlorination processes towards pre-existing PCBs and five exogenous coplanar PCBs were investigated in a contaminated sediment of Porto Marghera (Venice Lagoon, Italy) suspended, under strictly anaerobic conditions, in water collected from the same site. PCB dechlorination started after five months of incubation, when sulfate initially occurring in the microcosms was completely depleted and methanogenesis was in progress. It was ascribed to sulfate-reducing bacteria. Several pre-existing hexa-, penta- and tetra-chlorinated biphenyls were slowly bioconverted into tri- and di-, ortho-substituted PCBs from the 5th to the 16th month of experiment. Spiked coplanar PCBs, i.e., 3,3',4,4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl, 3,3',4,4',5- and 2,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyls, 3,3',4,4',5,5'- and 2,3,3',4,4',5-hexachlorobiphenyls, were extensively transformed (by about 90%) into lower chlorinated congeners, such as 3,3',5,5'-/2,3',4,4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl, 3,3',5-, 2,4,4'-, 2,3',4- and 2,3',5-trichlorobiphenyl, 3,4-/3,4'- and 3,3'-dichlorobiphenyl and 2-chlorobiphenyl. The reductive dechlorination of spiked PCBs did not influence significantly the biotransformation rate and extent of pre-existing PCBs.
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- G Zanaroli
- DICASM, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna, viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
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el Fantroussi S, Agathos SN, Pieper DH, Witzig R, Cámara B, Gabriel-Jürgens L, Junca H, Zanaroli G, Fava F, Pérez-Jiménez JR, Young LY, Hamonts K, Lookman R, Maesen M, Diels L, Dejonghe W, Dijk J, Springael D. Biological Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4959-0_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/21/2023]
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Fagervold SK, Watts JEM, May HD, Sowers KR. Sequential reductive dechlorination of meta-chlorinated polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in sediment microcosms by two different Chloroflexi phylotypes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:8085-90. [PMID: 16332789 PMCID: PMC1317378 DOI: 10.1128/aem.71.12.8085-8090.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2005] [Accepted: 09/02/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Three species within a deeply branching cluster of the Chloroflexi are the only microorganisms currently known to anaerobically transform polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by the mechanism of reductive dechlorination. A selective PCR primer set was designed that amplifies the 16S rRNA genes of a monophyletic group within the Chloroflexi including Dehalococcoides spp. and the o-17/DF-1 group. Assays for both qualitative and quantitative analyses by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and most probable number-PCR, respectively, were developed to assess sediment microcosm enrichments that reductively dechlorinated PCBs 101 (2,2',4,5,5'-CB) and 132 (2,2',3,3',4,6'-CB). PCB 101 was reductively dechlorinated at the para-flanked meta position to PCB 49 (2,2',4,5'-CB) by phylotype DEH10, which belongs to the Dehalococcoides group. This same species reductively dechlorinated the para- and ortho-flanked meta-chlorine of PCB 132 to PCB 91 (2,2',3',4,6'-CB). However, another phylotype designated SF1, which is more closely related to the o-17/DF-1 group, was responsible for the subsequent dechlorination of PCB 91 to PCB 51 (2,2',4,6'-CB). Using the selective primer set, an increase in 16S rRNA gene copies was observed only with actively dechlorinating cultures, indicating that PCB-dechlorinating activities by both phylotype DEH10 and SF1 were linked to growth. The results suggest that individual species within the Chloroflexi exhibit a limited range of congener specificities and that a relatively diverse community of species within a deeply branching group of Chloroflexi with complementary congener specificities is likely required for the reductive dechlorination of different PCBs congeners in the environment.
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- Sonja K Fagervold
- Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
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Watts JEM, Fagervold SK, May HD, Sowers KR. A PCR-based specific assay reveals a population of bacteria within the Chloroflexi associated with the reductive dehalogenation of polychlorinated biphenyls. Microbiology (Reading) 2005; 151:2039-2046. [PMID: 15942010 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27819-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) accumulate and persist in sediments posing a risk to human health and the environment. Highly chlorinated PCBs are reductively dechlorinated in anaerobic sediments and two bacteria, designated o-17 and DF-1, from a novel phylogenetic group that reductively dechlorinate PCBs have recently been identified. However, there is a paucity of knowledge about the distribution, diversity and ecology of PCB-dechlorinating bacteria due to difficulty in obtaining pure cultures and the lack of detection by universal PCR 16S rRNA gene primer sets in sediments. A specific PCR primer was developed and optimized for detection of o-17/DF-1 and other closely related bacteria in the environment. Using this primer set it was determined that bacteria of this group were enriched in sediment microcosms from Baltimore Harbour concurrent with active dechlorination of 2,2′,3,4,4′,5′-hexachlorobiphenyl. Additional 16S rRNA gene sequences that had high levels of similarity to described PCB dechlorinators were detected in sediments from the Elizabeth River tributary of Chesapeake Bay, which had confirmed PCB-dechlorinating activities. Phylogenetic comparison of these detected 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed a relatively diverse group of organisms within the dehalogenating Chloroflexi that are distinct from the Dehalococcoides spp. Results from this study indicate that reductive PCB dechlorination activity may be catalysed by a previously undescribed group of micro-organisms that appear to be prevalent in PCB-impacted sites.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Biodegradation, Environmental
- Chloroflexi/classification
- Chloroflexi/genetics
- Chloroflexi/isolation & purification
- Chloroflexi/metabolism
- DNA, Bacterial/analysis
- DNA, Bacterial/chemistry
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- Genes, rRNA
- Geologic Sediments/microbiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Polychlorinated Biphenyls/metabolism
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Water Microbiology
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Affiliation(s)
- Joy E M Watts
- Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Miller GS, Milliken CE, Sowers KR, May HD. Reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene to trans-dichloroethene and cis-dichloroethene by PCB-dechlorinating bacterium DF-1. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2005; 39:2631-5. [PMID: 15884359 DOI: 10.1021/es048849t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and chlorinated ethenes (CEs) are known to pollute sediment, soil, and groundwater. The anaerobic dechlorination of these compounds is an integral part of their biodegradation in polluted environments. We report for the first time the dechlorination of tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE) by bacterium DF-1. This PCB and chlorobenzene dechlorinating bacterium dechlorinated PCE to TCE, which was then converted into trans-1,2-dichloroethene (trans-DCE) and cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE). The ratio of trans-DCE to cis-DCE produced by the culture had a range of 1.2-1.7. Bacterium DF-1 has been enriched in co-culture with a desulfovibrio-like microorganism. PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) analysis of the 16S rRNA genes of the co-culture demonstrated that DF-1 was enriched during the dechlorination of PCE, PCB, and chlorobenzene. DF-1 was not detected in the absence of PCE dechlorination and the desulfovibrio-like organism, isolated in pure culture, did not dechlorinate PCE. This is the first identification of a microorganism capable of producing high amounts of trans-DCE from PCE and indicates that microorganisms such as DF-1 are a possible biological source of trans-DCE in the environment.
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- Gregory S Miller
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425-2230, USA
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Shiang Fu Q, Barkovskii AL, Adriaens P. Microbial dechlorination of dioxins in estuarine enrichment cultures: effects of respiratory conditions and priming compound on community structure and dechlorination patterns. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2005; 59:177-195. [PMID: 15465128 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2004.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 01/22/2004] [Accepted: 04/06/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The effect of respiratory conditions and priming compound on dechlorination patterns of heptachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins (HpCDD) was investigated using estuarine sediment-eluted cultures in the presence and absence of 20 mM sulfate, and 0.2 microM 2-bromodibenzo-p-dioxin (2-BrDD) as a priming compound. Electron balance calculations based on fatty acid turnover, hydrogen production, and electron acceptor depletion/methane formation indicated that whereas fermentative processes dominated in sulfate-free incubations, sulfate-reduction was predominant in the sulfate-amended incubations. The dechlorination of 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDD exhibited the following trends: (i) the relative yields of product formation did not exceed 30% and the presence of 2-BrDD increased the yield by up to 10%; (ii) sulfidogenic conditions resulted in a lower 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) formation, and the presence of 2-BrDD decreased the formation of 2,3,7,8-TCDD by additional 4-5-fold; (iii) the presence of 2-BrDD effected a predominance in lateral (2,3,7,8 positions) over peri (1,4,6,9 positions)-dechlorination. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) banding patterns indicated significant shifts of microbial community structure in response to terminal electron accepting processes as well as to the presence of the priming compound. The latter resulted in a similar community structure independent of dioxin spike, indicating that subsets of populations in the sediment are capable of exploiting the new niche provided by the priming compound.
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- Q Shiang Fu
- Environmental Engineering and Science, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4020, USA.
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Rysavy JP, Yan T, Novak PJ. Enrichment of anaerobic polychlorinated biphenyl dechlorinators from sediment with iron as a hydrogen source. WATER RESEARCH 2005; 39:569-578. [PMID: 15707629 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2004.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2004] [Revised: 11/05/2004] [Accepted: 11/22/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Little is known about anaerobic polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) dechlorination, although it is believed that some microorganisms are capable of respiring PCBs, gaining energy for growth from PCB dechlorination. If this is the case, the amendment of appropriate electron donors to contaminated sediment should stimulate dechlorination. The effect of elemental iron (Fe0) addition, an easily amended electron donor, on the microbial dechlorination of the PCB congeners 3,4,5-trichlorobiphenyl (3,4,5-CB) and 2,2',3,4,4',5,5'-heptachlorobiphenyl (2,2',3,4,4',5,5'-CB) was investigated in microcosms containing estuarine sediment from Baltimore Harbor. Results showed that the addition of 0.1 g Fe0/g sediment reduced the lag time for removal of doubly flanked para chlorines by approximately 100 days. Because Fe0 is a source of cathodic hydrogen (H2), the effect of direct H2 addition to sediment microcosms was also tested. The addition of 0.001 atm H2 in the headspace generated the same dechlorination activity and reduction in lag time as the addition of 0.1g Fe0/g. Higher concentrations of Fe0 or H2 increased the lag prior to dechlorination. Additional results showed that an alkaline pH (> or = 7.5), high [Fe2+] (3.3 g/L), or HS- (0.1 mg/L total sulfide) inhibited dechlorination. Elevated concentrations of Fe2+, OH-, and HS- are products of Fe0 oxidation or increased microbial activity (methanogenesis, homoacetogenesis, and sulfate reduction), both of which would result from the amendment of large quantities of Fe0 or H2 to sediment. This research shows that not only can PCB dechlorination be stimulated through the addition of electron donor, but implies that the dechlorinators are enriched by the continuous addition of low concentrations of H2, similar to other known dechlorinators, such as the dehalorespirer Dehalococcoides ethenogenes. These results suggest that the direct addition of controlled amounts of Fe0 to sediments may be an effective remediation tool to reduce the lag period prior to dechlorination at PCB-impacted sites. They also suggest that PCB dechlorinators may be enriched using techniques similar to those used with known dehalorespirers.
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- Jason P Rysavy
- The Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, 122 Civil Engineering Building, 500 Pillsbury Drive S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0220, USA
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Nollet H, Van de Putte I, Raskin L, Verstraete W. Carbon/electron source dependence of polychlorinated biphenyl dechlorination pathways for anaerobic granules. CHEMOSPHERE 2005; 58:299-310. [PMID: 15581933 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.07.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2003] [Revised: 06/14/2004] [Accepted: 07/13/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The effect of acclimating anaerobic granules from commercial bioreactors with different carbon/electron sources on their ability to reductively dechlorinate a tri-(2,3,4-CB) and heptachlorobiphenyl (2,2',3,3',4,5,6-CB) was studied. The anaerobic granules were first grown in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors fed with two different mixtures of carbon/electron sources, i.e., propionate/butyrate/methanol and formate/methanol. Differences in dechlorination patterns for 2,2',3,3',4,5,6-CB were observed in batch experiments inoculated with granules from these two sets of UASB reactors. Variation of the carbon/electron source, during the dechlorination process, had no effect on the dechlorination pathway, but the extents and rates of dechlorination were highest for ethanol and formate and lowest for pyruvate fed batches. Pre-acclimation of different anaerobic sludges to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) shortened the lag period, but did not influence the PCB dechlorination pathway. This is the first time that similar acclimation conditions for several anaerobic microbial communities prior to inoculation were reported to yield similar substrate specificities for the reductive dechlorination of specific PCB congeners. This research demonstrates a successful strategy for the development of biocatalysts to serve as the inoculum of partially decontaminated sites in order to provide microorganisms with specificities complementary to those of naturally occurring dechlorinators.
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- Hendrik Nollet
- Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, Ghent 9000, Belgium
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Milliken CE, Meier GP, Watts JEM, Sowers KR, May HD. Microbial anaerobic demethylation and dechlorination of chlorinated hydroquinone metabolites synthesized by basidiomycete fungi. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:385-92. [PMID: 14711667 PMCID: PMC321268 DOI: 10.1128/aem.70.1.385-392.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The synthesis and degradation of anthropogenic and natural organohalides are the basis of a global halogen cycle. Chlorinated hydroquinone metabolites (CHMs) synthesized by basidiomycete fungi and present in wetland and forest soil are constituents of that cycle. Anaerobic dehalogenating bacteria coexist with basidiomycete fungi in soils and sediments, but little is known about the fate of these halogenated fungal compounds. In sediment microcosms, the CHMs 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-1,4-dimethoxybenzene and 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-4-methoxyphenol (TCMP) were anaerobically demethylated to tetrachlorohydroquinone (TCHQ). Subsequently, TCHQ was converted to trichlorohydroquinone and 2,5-dichlorohydroquinone (2,5-DCHQ) in freshwater and estuarine enrichment cultures. Screening of several dehalogenating bacteria revealed that Desulfitobacterium hafniense strains DCB2 and PCP1, Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans strain Co23, and Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans JW/DU1 sequentially dechlorinate TCMP to 2,3,5-trichloro-4-methoxyphenol and 3,5-dichloro-4-methoxyphenol (3,5-DCMP). After a lag, these strains demethylate 3,5-DCMP to 2,6-DCHQ, which is then completely dechlorinated to 1,4-dihydroquinone (HQ). 2,5-DCHQ accumulated as an intermediate during the dechlorination of TCHQ to HQ by the TCMP-degrading desulfitobacteria. HQ accumulation following TCMP or TCHQ dechlorination was transient and became undetectable after 14 days, which suggests mineralization of the fungal compounds. This is the first report on the anaerobic degradation of fungal CHMs, and it establishes a fundamental role for microbial reductive degradation of natural organochlorides in the global halogen cycle.
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- C E Milliken
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425-2230, USA
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Palekar LD, Maruya KA, Kostka JE, Wiegel J. Dehalogenation of 2,6-dibromobiphenyl and 2,3,4,5,6-pentachlorobiphenyl in contaminated estuarine sediment. CHEMOSPHERE 2003; 53:593-600. [PMID: 12962708 DOI: 10.1016/s0045-6535(03)00444-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Estuarine sediments from a USEPA Superfund site in coastal Georgia were extensively contaminated with Aroclor 1268, a mixture of highly chlorinated polychlorinated biphenyls used by a former chlor-alkali plant. Batch slurries of contaminated sediment were incubated for 1 yr with amendments of 2,6-dibromobiphenyl (26-BB) and 2,3,4,5,6-pentachlorobiphenyl (23456-CB) under anaerobic, sulfate-reducing conditions and different pH (5.5-7.5). Organic extracts of slurry sub-samples in a time series were analyzed by congener-specific GC-MS. Dechlorination of 23456-CB was pH dependent and occurred via two routes with the sequential loss of (1) meta and para chlorines and (2) para, ortho, and meta chlorines. Quantitative dehalogenation of 26-BB was observed at all pH. Supplementation of nonachlorobiphenyls (as primers) did not induce dechlorination of native Aroclor 1268 nor of the primers themselves. While contaminated estuarine sediments possess microbial consortia with diverse dehalogenating activities, lack of dechlorination of Aroclor 1268 and spiked nonachlorobiphenyl congeners suggests a bioavailability limitation or enzyme-substrate incompatibilities.
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- L D Palekar
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Fava F, Gentilucci S, Zanaroli G. Anaerobic biodegradation of weathered polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in contaminated sediments of Porto Marghera (Venice Lagoon, Italy). CHEMOSPHERE 2003; 53:101-109. [PMID: 12892672 DOI: 10.1016/s0045-6535(03)00438-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The biodegradation of weathered polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (mono and di-chlorinated biphenyls along with PCBs partially ascribed to Aroclor 1242 and 1254) occurring at 1.5-2.5 mg/kg in three different sediments collected from the Porto Marghera contaminated area of Venice Lagoon (Italy) was reported in this study. Strictly anaerobic, slurry microcosms consisting of sediments suspended (at 25% v/v) in a marine salt medium, lagoon water or lagoon water supplemented with NaHCO3 and Na2S were developed and monitored for PCB transformation, sulfate consumption and methane (CH4) production for 6 months. A marked depletion of highly chlorinated biphenyls along with the accumulation of low-chlorinated, often ortho-substituted biphenyls was observed in the biologically active microcosms, where a remarkable consumption of sulfate and/or a significant production of CH4 were also detected. Notably, a more extensive PCB transformation was observed in the microcosms developed with site water (both without or with NaHCO3 plus Na2S), where both the initial concentration of sulfate and sulfate consumption were five fold-higher than in the corresponding microcosms with salt medium. These data indicate that weathered PCBs of the three contaminated sediments of Porto Marghera utilized in this study can undergo reductive dechlorination, probably mediated by indigenous sulfate-reducing and/or methanogenic bacteria.
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- Fabio Fava
- DICASM, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna, viale Risorgimento 2, I-40136 Bologna, Italy.
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