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Alsharif SM, Ismaeil M, Saeed AM, El-Sayed WS. Metagenomic 16S rRNA analysis and predictive functional profiling revealed intrinsic organohalides respiration and bioremediation potential in mangrove sediment. BMC Microbiol 2024; 24:176. [PMID: 38778276 PMCID: PMC11110206 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-024-03291-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Mangrove sediment microbes are increasingly attracting scientific attention due to their demonstrated capacity for diverse bioremediation activities, encompassing a wide range of environmental contaminants. MATERIALS AND METHODS The microbial communities of five Avicennia marina mangrove sediment samples collected from Al Rayyis White Head, Red Sea (KSA), were characterized using Illumina amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA genes. RESULTS Our study investigated the microbial composition and potential for organohalide bioremediation in five mangrove sediments from the Red Sea. While Proteobacteria dominated four microbiomes, Bacteroidetes dominated the fifth. Given the environmental concerns surrounding organohalides, their bioremediation is crucial. Encouragingly, we identified phylogenetically diverse organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB) across all samples, including Dehalogenimonas, Dehalococcoides, Anaeromyxobacter, Desulfuromonas, Geobacter, Desulfomonile, Desulfovibrio, Shewanella and Desulfitobacterium. These bacteria are known for their ability to dechlorinate organohalides through reductive dehalogenation. PICRUSt analysis further supported this potential, predicting the presence of functional biomarkers for organohalide respiration (OHR), including reductive dehalogenases targeting tetrachloroethene (PCE) and 3-chloro-4-hydroxyphenylacetate in most sediments. Enrichment cultures studies confirmed this prediction, demonstrating PCE dechlorination by the resident microbial community. PICRUSt also revealed a dominance of anaerobic metabolic processes, suggesting the microbiome's adaptation to the oxygen-limited environment of the sediments. CONCLUSION This study provided insights into the bacterial community composition of five mangrove sediments from the Red Sea. Notably, diverse OHRB were detected across all samples, which possess the metabolic potential for organohalide bioremediation through reductive dehalogenation pathways. Furthermore, PICRUSt analysis predicted the presence of functional biomarkers for OHR in most sediments, suggesting potential intrinsic OHR activity by the enclosed microbial community.
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- Sultan M Alsharif
- Department of Biology, College of Science, Taibah University, Al-Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
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- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Ojo AO, Castillo J, Cason ED, Valverde A. Biodegradation of chloroethene compounds under microoxic conditions. Biotechnol Bioeng 2024; 121:1036-1049. [PMID: 38116701 DOI: 10.1002/bit.28630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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The biodegradation of chloroethene compounds under oxic and anoxic conditions is well established. However, the biological reactions that take place under microoxic conditions are unknown. Here, we report the biostimulated (BIOST: addition of lactate) and natural attenuated (NAT) degradation of chloroethene compounds under microoxic conditions by bacterial communities from chloroethene compounds-contaminated groundwater. The degradation of tetrachloroethene was significantly higher in NAT (15.14% on average) than in BIOST (10.13% on average) conditions at the end of the experiment (90 days). Sporomusa, Paracoccus, Sedimentibacter, Pseudomonas, and Desulfosporosinus were overrepresented in NAT and BIOST compared to the source groundwater. The NAT metagenome contains phenol hydrolase P1 oxygenase (dmpL), catechol-1,2-dioxygenase (catA), catechol-2,3-dioxygenases (dmpB, todE, and xylE) genes, which could be involved in the cometabolic degradation of chloroethene compounds; and chlorate reductase (clrA), that could be associated with partial reductive dechlorination of chloroethene compounds. Our data provide a better understanding of the bacterial communities, genes, and pathways potentially implicated in the reductive and cometabolic degradation of chloroethene compounds under microoxic conditions.
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- Abidemi Oluranti Ojo
- Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Centre for Applied Food Sustainability and Biotechnology, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain
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Asai M, Morita Y, Meng L, Miyazaki H, Yoshida N. Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain NIT01 grows more stably in vessels made of pure titanium rather than the stainless alloy SUS304. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2023; 15:557-567. [PMID: 37594161 PMCID: PMC10667658 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.13192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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Advances in many isolation studies have revealed that pure Dehalococcoides grow stably, although the large-scale pure cultivation of Dehalococcoides has yet to be established. In this study, 7 L-culturing of Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain NIT01 was first performed using vessels made of glass and stainless alloy SUS304. All batches cultured in the glass vessel successfully dechlorinated >95% of 1 mM trichloroethene (TCE) to ethene (ETH), whereas only 5 out of 13 batches cultured in the SUS304 vessel did the same. The difference in dechlorination efficiency suggested the possible inhibition of dechlorination by SUS304. Also, the strain NIT01 showed long delays in dechlorination with pieces of SUS316, steel, and a repeatedly used SUS304, but not with titanium. The repeatedly used SUS304 cracked and increased the Fe2+ concentration to ≥76 μM. Dechlorination by this strain was also inhibited with ≥1000 μM Fe2+ and ≥23 μM Cr3+ but not with ≤100 μM Ni2+ , suggesting that Cr3+ eluted from solid stainless alloys inhibited the dechlorination. Culturing in a titanium vessel instead of a stainless alloy showed the complete dechlorination of 1 mM TCE within 12-28 days with a growth yield of 2.7 × 107 cells/μmol-released Cl- , even after repeating use of the vessels six times.
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- Masaki Asai
- Department of Civil EngineeringNagoya Institute of TechnologyNagoyaJapan
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- Department of Civil EngineeringNagoya Institute of TechnologyNagoyaJapan
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- Department of Civil EngineeringNagoya Institute of TechnologyNagoyaJapan
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- Department of Physical Science and EngineeringNagoya Institute of TechnologyNagoyaJapan
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- Department of Civil EngineeringNagoya Institute of TechnologyNagoyaJapan
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Meng L, Tomita R, Yoshida T, Yoshida N. Soil organic matter and nutrient availability affect the applicability of low-carbon energy source in Dehalococcoides-augmented soil. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 459:132251. [PMID: 37591166 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/06/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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Dehalococcoides is a functional microorganism that completely dechlorinates trichloroethene (TCE). Augmentation with pure Dehalococcoides is important for reducing environmental disturbances that accompany bioaugmentation. However, the applicability of Dehalococcoides-bioaugmentation to contaminated soils is unclear. In this study, seven low-carbon energy sources (methanol, formate, acetate, ethanol, lactate, citrate, and benzoate) were used as electron donors for Dehalococcides to evaluate its applicability in remediating TCE-contaminated soils. Soil microcosms supplemented with ethanol, formate, or lactate showed relatively high dechlorination activity within 111-180 days. The functional gene profiles predicted by PICRUSt2 from 16 S rRNA gene sequences were similar in the proportions of dehydrogenases, which initiate electron donor oxidation, in all soils and did not seem to reflect Dehalococcoides-bioaugmentation applicability. Soils with higher organic matter content (>3.2%; dry weight base) and protein concentration (>1.6 µg/mL) supported complete dechlorination. These results suggest that organic matter and nutrient availability mainly affect successful TCE dechlorination in Dehalococcoides-augmented soils. The study offers significant experimental support for comprehending the suitability of low-carbon energy sources in successful bioaugmentation, aiming to mitigate environmental disturbances associated with the process.
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- Lingyu Meng
- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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Xie L, Yoshida N, Meng L. Polyphasic Characterization of Geotalea uranireducens NIT-SL11 Newly Isolated from a Complex of Sewage Sludge and Microbially Reduced Graphene Oxide. Microorganisms 2023; 11:microorganisms11020349. [PMID: 36838314 PMCID: PMC9961858 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11020349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Graphene oxide (GO), a chemically oxidized sheet of graphite, has been used as a conductive carbon carrier of microbes to boost various bioelectrochemical reactions. However, the types of microbes that can reduce GO have rarely been investigated. In this study, a strain of GO-reducing bacteria, named NIT-SL11, which was obtained from a hydrogel of microbially reduced GO and anaerobic sludge that converts sewage to electricity, was phylogenically identified as a novel strain of Geotalea uraniireducens. Considering the current lack of information on the electrogenic ability of the bacterium and its physicochemical and chemotaxonomic characteristics, the polyphasic characterization of the Geotalea uraniireducens strain NIT-SL11 was performed. NIT-SL11 utilized various organic acids, such as lactate, benzoate, and formate, as electron donors and exhibited respiration using GO, electrodes, fumarate, and malate. The strain contained C16:1ω7c and C16:0 as the major fatty acids and MK-8 and 9 as the major respiratory quinones. The complete genome of NIT-SL11 was 4.7 Mbp in size with a G+C content of 60.9%, and it encoded 80 putative c-type cytochromes and 23 type IV pili-related proteins. The possible extracellular electron transfer (EET) pathways of the strain were the porin-cytochrome (Pcc) EET pathway and type IV pili-based pathway.
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Tomita R, Yoshida N, Meng L. Formate: A promising electron donor to enhance trichloroethene-to-ethene dechlorination in Dehalococcoides-augmented groundwater ecosystems with minimal bacterial growth. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 307:136080. [PMID: 35988762 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.136080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Revised: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Various substrates have been used to stimulate habitat microbes in chloroethene-contaminated groundwater, however, the specific efficiency and minimum growth of microbes have rarely been studied. This study investigated the effects of seven substrates on trichloroethene (TCE) dechlorination by augmentation of groundwater with Dehalococcoides mccartyi NIT01 and its contribution to the microbial community. Three out of eight test groups completed dechlorination of 1 mM TCE-to-ethene in varying durations; groundwater supplemented with formate (FOR) required 78 days, whereas the microcosms with lactate (LAC) and citrate (CIT) required approximately twice as long (143 days). The calculated efficiency of how much produced H2 was used in dechlorination indicated a higher efficiency in FOR (36%) compared with LAC (1.9%) or CIT (2.9%). FOR showed lower microbial growth (3.4 × 105 copies/mL) than LAC (1.5 × 106) or CIT (4.4 × 106), and maintained a higher Shannon diversity index (5.65) than LAC (4.97) and CIT (4.30). The rapid and higher H2 transfer efficiency with lower bacterial growth by using formate was attributed to the slightly positive Gibbs free energy identified in H2 production requiring a H2-utilizer, lower carbon in the molecule, and adaptation to metabolic potential of the original groundwater microbiome. Formate is, therefore, a promising electron donor for rapid Dehalococcoides-augmented remediation with minimum bacterial growth. Sequential transferring of the FOR culture successfully maintained TCE-to-ethene dechlorination activity and enriched the members of genera Dehalococcoides (33%), Methanosphaerula (23%), Rectinema (13%), and Desulfitobacterium (5.6%). This suggests that formate is transferred to H2 and acetate, and provided to Dehalococcoides.
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- Ryuya Tomita
- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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Hudari MSB, Richnow H, Vogt C, Nijenhuis I. Mini-review: effect of temperature on microbial reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated ethenes: a review. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2022; 98:6638985. [PMID: 35810002 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiac081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Revised: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Temperature is a key factor affecting microbial activity and ecology. An increase in temperature generally increases rates of microbial processes up to a certain threshold, above which rates decline rapidly. In the subsurface, temperature of groundwater is usually stable and related to the annual average temperature at the surface. However, anthropogenic activities related to the use of the subsurface, e.g. for thermal heat management, foremost heat storage, will affect the temperature of groundwater locally. This mini-review intends to summarize the current knowledge on reductive dehalogenation activities of the chlorinated ethenes, common urban groundwater contaminants, at different temperatures. This includes an overview of activity and dehalogenation extent at different temperatures in laboratory isolates and enrichment cultures, the effect of shifts in temperature in micro- and mesocosm studies as well as observed biotransformation at different natural and induced temperatures at contaminated field sites. Furthermore, we address indirect effects on biotransformation, e.g. changes in fermentation, methanogenesis and sulfate reduction as competing or synergetic microbial processes. Finally, we address the current gaps in knowledge regarding bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes, microbial community shifts and bottlenecks for active combination with thermal energy storage, and necessities for bioaugmentation and/or natural re-populations after exposure to high temperature.
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- Mohammad Sufian Bin Hudari
- Department of Isotope Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Isotope Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Isotope Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Isotope Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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Meng L, Yoshida N, Li Z. Soil microorganisms facilitated the electrode-driven trichloroethene dechlorination to ethene by Dehalococcoides species in a bioelectrochemical system. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 209:112801. [PMID: 35093309 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.112801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Bioelectrochemical dechlorination using organohalide-respiring bacteria (ORBs) is a promising technique for remediating contaminated groundwater. Generally, a longer enrichment period is required for selecting the ORB consortia to achieve bioelectrochemical dechlorination. However, the full dechloriantion is difficult to be achieved due to the absence of functional species (e.g. Dehalococcoides) in previously used enrich cultures. To overcome these challenges, bioelectrochemical dechlorination using a culture enriched with the pre-augmented Dehalococcoides was performed for the first time in this study. A two-chamber bioelectrochemical system (BES) inoculated with a pure Dehalococcoides culture and paddy soil with an applied voltage of -0.3 V (versus a standard hydrogen electrode) as the sole electron donor was used to achieve dechlorination. The ethene formation rate was 10-100 times higher than that in previous studies, indicating that inoculating the system with a pure Dehalococcoides culture and soil microorganisms gave effective full dechlorination performance. Microbial community analysis and bioelectrochemical analysis indicated that Desulfosporosinus species may have facilitated dechlorination through syntrophic interactions with Dehalococcoides. The results indicated that adding Dehalococcoides cells before operating a bioelectrochemical system is an effective way of achieving full dechlorination.
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- Lingyu Meng
- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resources and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China
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Asai M, Yoshida N, Kusakabe T, Ismaeil M, Nishiuchi T, Katayama A. Dehalococcoides mccartyi NIT01, a novel isolate, dechlorinates high concentrations of chloroethenes by expressing at least six different reductive dehalogenases. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 207:112150. [PMID: 34619124 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This study presents the isolation of a novel strain of Dehalococcoides mccartyi, NIT01, which can completely dechlorinate up to 4.0 mM of trichloroethene to ethene via 1,2-cis-dichroroethene and vinyl chloride within 25 days. Strain NIT01 dechlorinated chloroethenes (CEs) at a temperature range of 25-32 °C and pH range of 6.5-7.8. The activity of the strain was inhibited by salt at more than 1.3% and inactivated by 1 h exposure to 2.0% air or 0.5 ppm hypochlorous acid. The genome of NIT01 was highly similar to that of the Dehalococcoides strains DCMB5, GT, 11a5, CBDB1, and CG5, and all included identical 16S rRNA genes. Moreover, NIT01 had 19 rdhA genes including NIT01-rdhA7 and rdhA13, which are almost identical to vcrA and pceA that encode known dehalogenases for tetrachloroethene and vinyl chloride, respectively. We also extracted RdhAs from the membrane fraction of NIT01 using 0.5% n-dodecyl-β-d-maltoside and separated them by anion exchange chromatography to identify those involved in CE dechlorination. LC/MS identification of the LDS-PAGE bands and RdhA activities in the fractions indicated cellular expression of six RdhAs. NIT01-RdhA7 (VcrA) and NIT01-RdhA15 were highly detected and NIT01-RdhA6 was the third-most detected. Among these three RdhAs, NIT01-RdhA15 and NIT01-RdhA6 had no biochemically identified relatives and were suggested to be novel functional dehalogenases for CEs. The expression of multiple dehalogenases may support bacterial tolerance to high concentrations of CEs.
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- Masaki Asai
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Gokiso-Cho, Showa-Ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Gokiso-Cho, Showa-Ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Gokiso-Cho, Showa-Ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Integrated Omics Research, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan
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Xie L, Yoshida N, Ishii S, Meng L. Isolation and Polyphasic Characterization of Desulfuromonas versatilis sp. Nov., an Electrogenic Bacteria Capable of Versatile Metabolism Isolated from a Graphene Oxide-Reducing Enrichment Culture. Microorganisms 2021; 9:1953. [PMID: 34576847 PMCID: PMC8465243 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9091953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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In this study, a novel electrogenic bacterium denoted as strain NIT-T3 of the genus Desulfuromonas was isolated from a graphene-oxide-reducing enrichment culture that was originally obtained from a mixture of seawater and coastal sand. Strain NIT-T3 utilized hydrogen and various organic acids as electron donors and exhibited respiration using electrodes, ferric iron, nitrate, and elemental sulfur. The strain contained C16:1ω7c, C16:0, and C15:0 as major fatty acids and MK-8, 9, and 7 as the major respiratory quinones. Strain NIT-T3 contained four 16S rRNA genes and showed 95.7% similarity to Desulfuromonasmichiganensis BB1T, the closest relative. The genome was 4.7 Mbp in size and encoded 76 putative c-type cytochromes, which included 6 unique c-type cytochromes (<40% identity) compared to those in the database. Based on the physiological and genetic uniqueness, and wide metabolic capability, strain NIT-T3 is proposed as a type strain of 'Desulfuromonas versatilis' sp. nov.
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- Li Xie
- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya 466-8555, Aichi, Japan; (L.X.); (L.M.)
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya 466-8555, Aichi, Japan; (L.X.); (L.M.)
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- Institute for Extra-Cutting-Edge Science and Technology Avant-Garde Research (X-Star), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka 237-0061, Kanagawa, Japan;
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech), Nagoya 466-8555, Aichi, Japan; (L.X.); (L.M.)
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Nagahashi W, Yoshida N. Comparative evaluation of fibrous artificial carbons and bamboo charcoal in terms of recovery of current from sewage wastewater. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2021; 67:248-255. [PMID: 34470976 DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2021.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In this study, two fibrous carbon anodes (namely, pleated non-woven graphite (PNWG) and carbon brush (CB) made from artificial carbon) and bamboo charcoal (BC) were evaluated for current recovery from sewage wastewater. When these anodes were polarized at 0.2 V vs. Ag/AgCl in sewage wastewater, CB produced a maximum current of 2.9 A/m2. This exceeded that produced by PNWG (1.5 A/m2) and BC (1.4 A/m2). The accumulative charge recovery achieved with CB was superior to those achieved with the other two (1.6- and 2.2-fold higher than that with PNWG and BC, respectively). During the cyclic voltammetry analysis, CB demonstrated the highest catalytic current with maximum potential in the range of -0.6 to 0.4 V vs. Ag/AgCl and the smallest anode resistance (0.20 Ωm2). Direct cell counting revealed that the fibrous anodes (CB and PNWG) attached most of the cells in the anodes (80%), whereas BC did not. In contrast, the proportion of Geobacter species, a representative electrogenic microorganism in the total bacteria, was observed to be similar among the three anodes (4.4-5.8%). The tubular microbial fuel cell (ø 5.0 cm) equipped with an air-chamber core wrapped with an anion exchange membrane (AEM) and the CB delivered a current of 1.8 A/m2. This is higher than those reported in the existing literature for the same microbial fuel cell (MFC) configuration. This indicates that the alteration of the anode from planar to brush can contribute toward improving the current recovery through the air-cathode-AEM-MFC. The BC needs improvement to have more specific surface area, whereas it showed superiority in cost efficiency considering material and processing.
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- Wataru Nagahashi
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech)
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech)
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Yoshikawa M, Zhang M, Kawabe Y, Katayama T. Effects of ferrous iron supplementation on reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene and on methanogenic microbial community. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2021; 97:6274675. [PMID: 33979429 PMCID: PMC8139862 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiab069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Chloroethenes are common soil and groundwater pollutants. Their dechlorination is impacted by environmental factors, such as the presence of metal ions. We here investigated the effect of ferrous iron on bacterial reductive dechlorination of chloroethenes and on methanogen community. Reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene was assayed with a groundwater sample originally containing 6.3 × 103 copies mL−1 of Dehalococcoides 16S rRNA gene and 2 mg L−1 of iron. Supplementation with 28 mg L−1 of ferrous iron enhanced the reductive dechlorination of cis-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) and vinyl chloride in the presence of methanogens. The supplementation shortened the time required for complete dechlorination of 1 mg L−1 of tetrachloroethene to ethene and ethane from 84 to 49 d. Methanogens, such as Candidatus ‘Methanogranum’, Methanomethylovorans and Methanocorpusculum, were significantly more abundant in iron-supplemented cultures than in non-supplemented cultures (P < 0.01). Upon methanogen growth inhibition by 2-bromoethanesulfonate and in the absence of iron supplementation, cis-DCE was not dechlorinated. Further, iron supplementation induced 71.3% dechlorination of cis-DCE accompanied by an increase in Dehalococcoides 16S rRNA and dehalogenase vcrA gene copies but not dehalogenase tceA gene copies. These observations highlight the cooperative effect of iron and methanogens on the reductive dechlorination of chloroethenes by Dehalococcoides spp.
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- Miho Yoshikawa
- Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
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- Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
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- Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
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- Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
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Zalesak M, Ruzicka J, Vicha R, Dvorackova M. Examining aerobic degradation of chloroethenes mixture in consortium composed of Comamonas testosteroni RF2 and Mycobacterium aurum L1. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 269:128770. [PMID: 33139045 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Revised: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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An environmental isolate Comamonas testosteroni RF2 has been previously described to cometabolize trichloroethene (TCE), 1,2-cis-dichloroethene (cDCE), 1,2-trans-dichloroethene (tDCE), and 1,1-dichloroethene (1,1DCE) when grown on phenol and lactate sodium. In this study, three vinyl chloride (VC) degrading strains, Mycobacterium aurum L1, Pseudomonas putida PS, and Rhodococcus ruber Sm-1 were used to form consortia with the strain RF2 in terms to achieve the removal of VC along with above-mentioned chloroethenes. Degradation assays were performed for a binary mixture of cDCE and VC as well as for a mixture of TCE, all DCEs and VC. The consortium composed of C. testosteroni RF2 and M. aurum L1 showed to be the most efficient towards the removal of cDCE (6.01 mg L-1) in the binary mixture with VC (10 mg L-1) and was capable of efficiently removing chloroethenes in the mixture sample at the initial concentrations of 116 μg L-1 for TCE, 662 μg L-1 for cDCE, 42 μg L-1 for tDCE, 16 μg L-1 for 1,1DCE, and 7 mg L-1 for VC with a removal efficiency of nearly 100% for all of the compounds. Although complete removal of VC took a significantly longer time than the removal of other chloroethenes, the consortium composed of C. testosteroni RF2 and M. aurum L1 displayed strong bioremediation potential for aquifers with downstream contamination characterized by the presence of less chlorinated ethenes.
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- Michal Zalesak
- Department of Environment Protection Engineering, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of Technology, Vavreckova 275, 760 01, Zlin, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Environment Protection Engineering, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of Technology, Vavreckova 275, 760 01, Zlin, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Chemistry, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of Technology, Vavreckova 275, 760 01, Zlin, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Environment Protection Engineering, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of Technology, Vavreckova 275, 760 01, Zlin, Czech Republic.
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Maucourt B, Vuilleumier S, Bringel F. Transcriptional regulation of organohalide pollutant utilisation in bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2020; 44:189-207. [PMID: 32011697 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuaa002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Organohalides are organic molecules formed biotically and abiotically, both naturally and through industrial production. They are usually toxic and represent a health risk for living organisms, including humans. Bacteria capable of degrading organohalides for growth express dehalogenase genes encoding enzymes that cleave carbon-halogen bonds. Such bacteria are of potential high interest for bioremediation of contaminated sites. Dehalogenase genes are often part of gene clusters that may include regulators, accessory genes and genes for transporters and other enzymes of organohalide degradation pathways. Organohalides and their degradation products affect the activity of regulatory factors, and extensive genome-wide modulation of gene expression helps dehalogenating bacteria to cope with stresses associated with dehalogenation, such as intracellular increase of halides, dehalogenase-dependent acid production, organohalide toxicity and misrouting and bottlenecks in metabolic fluxes. This review focuses on transcriptional regulation of gene clusters for dehalogenation in bacteria, as studied in laboratory experiments and in situ. The diversity in gene content, organization and regulation of such gene clusters is highlighted for representative organohalide-degrading bacteria. Selected examples illustrate a key, overlooked role of regulatory processes, often strain-specific, for efficient dehalogenation and productive growth in presence of organohalides.
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- Bruno Maucourt
- Université de Strasbourg, UMR 7156 CNRS, Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique, Microbiologie, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, UMR 7156 CNRS, Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique, Microbiologie, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, UMR 7156 CNRS, Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique, Microbiologie, Strasbourg, France
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Preparation and characterization of site-specific dechlorinating microbial inocula capable of complete dechlorination enriched in anaerobic microcosms amended with clay mineral. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2020; 36:29. [PMID: 32016527 PMCID: PMC6997268 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-020-2806-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Abstract Short-chain halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons (e.g. perchloroethene, trichloroethene) are among the most toxic environmental pollutants. Perchloroethene and trichloroethene can be dechlorinated to non-toxic ethene through reductive dechlorination by Dehalococcoides sp. Bioaugmentation, applying cultures containing organohalide-respiring microorganisms, is a possible technique to remediate sites contaminated with chlorinated ethenes. Application of site specific inocula is an efficient alternative solution. Our aim was to develop site specific dechlorinating microbial inocula by enriching microbial consortia from groundwater contaminated with trichloroethene using microcosm experiments containing clay mineral as solid phase. Our main goal was to develop fast and reliable method to produce large amount (100 L) of bioactive agent with anaerobic fermentation technology. Polyphasic approach has been applied to monitor the effectiveness of dechlorination during the transfer process from bench-scale (500 mL) to industrial-scale (100 L). Gas chromatography measurement and T-RFLP (Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism) revealed that the serial subculture of the enrichments shortened the time-course of the complete dechlorination of trichloroethene to ethene and altered the composition of bacterial communities. Complete dechlorination was observed in enrichments with significant abundance of Dehalococcoides sp. cultivated at 8 °C. Consortia incubated in fermenters at 18 °C accelerated the conversion of TCE to ethene by 7–14 days. Members of the enrichments belong to the phyla Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Proteobacteria and Firmicutes. According to the operational taxonomic units, main differences between the composition of the enrichment incubated at 8 °C and 18 °C occurred with relative abundance of acetogenic and fermentative species. In addition to the temperature, the site-specific origin of the microbial communities and the solid phase applied during the fermentation technique contributed to the development of a unique microbial composition. Graphic abstract ![]()
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s11274-020-2806-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Yoshida N, Miyata Y, Iida K. Current recovery from sewage wastewater using electrochemically oxidized graphite felt. RSC Adv 2019; 9:39348-39354. [PMID: 35540661 PMCID: PMC9076062 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra07671a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The oxidation of a carbon anode has been reported to enhance electricity recovery in a microbial fuel cell (MFC). This study investigates the applicability of electrochemically oxidized graphite felt (EOGF) as the anode for the recovery of electricity from sewage wastewater when polarized at 0.2 V during MFC operation. EOGFs were prepared by polarizing graphite felt (GF) at 2 V in 1% sulfuric acid or nitric acid. The nitric acid-treated EOGF inoculated with an sewage sludge produced a maximum current of 110 μA cm-3, which exceeds that produced by the original GF (91 μA cm-3) under electrochemical cultivation at 0.2 V vs. Ag/AgCl. This outcome is attributed to a decrease in charge-transfer resistance and an increase in the capacitance of the anode. In contrast, electrochemical oxidation did not affect the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal rate or the microbial community structure of the anode. The MFC equipped with the EOGF delivered 340-560 mW m-3-MFC of electricity during operation in the drainage water channel of a primary sedimentation tank, which corresponds to 11-15 μA cm-3 of current density. The lower current produced in the MFC compared to that observed during electrochemical cultivation indicates that factors other than the anode material restrict current production in the MFC. Even with the small amount of generated electricity, when operated for more than three days, the MFC provides a positive net energy balance when integrated with post-aeration treatment.
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- Naoko Yoshida
- Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya Aichi Japan
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- Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute 3-4-41, Rokuban, Atsuta-ku Nagoya 456-0058 Japan
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- Nippon Koei Co., Ltd. 1-14-6 Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102-8539 Japan
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Organohalide respiration (OHR) is an anaerobic metabolism by which bacteria conserve energy with the use of halogenated compounds as terminal electron acceptors. Genes involved in OHR are organized in reductive dehalogenase (rdh) gene clusters and can be found in relatively high copy numbers in the genomes of organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB). The minimal rdh gene set is composed by rdhA and rdhB, encoding the catalytic enzyme involved in reductive dehalogenation and its putative membrane anchor, respectively. In this chapter, we present the major findings concerning the regulatory strategies developed by OHRB to control the expression of the rdh gene clusters. The first section focuses on the description of regulation patterns obtained from targeted transcriptional analyses, and from transcriptomic and proteomic studies, while the second section offers a detailed overview of the biochemically characterized OHR regulatory proteins identified so far. Depending on OHRB, transcriptional regulators belonging to three different protein families are found in the direct vicinity of rdh gene clusters, suggesting that they activate the transcription of their cognate gene cluster. In this chapter, strong emphasis was laid on the family of CRP/FNR-type RdhK regulators which belong to members of the genera Dehalobacter and Desulfitobacterium. Whereas only chlorophenols have been identified as effectors for RdhK regulators, the protein sequence diversity suggests a broader organohalide spectrum. Thus, effector identification of new regulators offers a promising alternative to elucidate the substrates of yet uncharacterized reductive dehalogenases. Future work investigating the possible cross-talk between OHR regulators and their possible use as biosensors is discussed.
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Ismaeil M, Yoshida N, Katayama A. Bacteroides sedimenti sp. nov., isolated from a chloroethenes-dechlorinating consortium enriched from river sediment. J Microbiol 2018; 56:619-627. [DOI: 10.1007/s12275-018-8187-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Revised: 06/11/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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