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... Organohalide respiration (OHR), comprising the reductive dehalogenation of halogenated organic compounds, is subject to a unique memory effect and long-term transcriptional downregulation of the involved genes in Sulfurospirillum multivorans. Gene expression ceases slowly over approximately 100 generations in the absence of tetrachloroethene (PCE). However, the molecular mechanisms of this regulat ...
... Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) is the most widely used brominated flame retardant on the market. It has been detected in various environmental samples, and a growing body of evidence has demonstrated its toxic effects on living organisms. In this study, we report the enrichment and phylogenetic identification of bacteria that debrominate TBBPA to bisphenol A in the presence of humin. Incubation exp ...
... A system of two membrane biofilm reactors (MBfRs) was tested for the conversion of sulfate (1.5 g/L) in mining-process water into elemental sulfur (S⁰) particles. Initially, a H₂-based MBfR reduced sulfate to sulfide, and an O₂-based MBfR then oxidized sulfide to S⁰. Later, the two MBfRs were coupled by a recirculation flow. Surface loading, reactor-coupling configuration, and substrate-gas pressu ...
... A novel acidogenic phosphorus recovery (APR) process was developed in combination with Fe(III)-based chemical phosphorus removal and a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for enhanced wastewater treatment and effective P recovery. Two different system configurations were evaluated: Fe-dosing MBR (Fe-MBR), with the Fe-dosing into the MBR, and Fe-enhanced primary sedimentation followed by the MBR (FeP-MBR). T ...
Dehalobacter restrictus; Dehalococcoides mccartyi; Desulfitobacterium; Sulfurospirillum; bacteria; bioremediation; biosynthesis; data collection; electron transport chain; gene expression; genes; genomics; halogens; hydrogen; messenger RNA; proteins; proteomics; transcriptomics
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... Organohalide respiration (OHR) is a crucial process in the global halogen cycle and of interest for bioremediation. However, investigations on OHR are hampered by the restricted genetic accessibility and the poor growth yields of many organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB). Therefore, genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics are often used to investigate OHRB. In general, these gene expression stu ...
... It is a novel biological method to reduce high concentration of perchlorate using an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor with perchlorate granular sludge. A high perchlorate loading rate of 9.96 g/(L·d) was achieved in the UASB reactor with the perchlorate reduction rate of 84.7%. The perchlorate granular sludge wet density, mechanical strength and VSS/SS of the mature perchlorate granular slu ...
Yuriy Kryachko; Diana Semler; John Vogrinetz; Markus Lemke; Randy Irvine; John Davidson; Matthew G. Links; E. Luke McCarthy; Brenda Haug; Sean M. Hemmingsen
... Microbial communities from five wells in a Canadian oil field were characterized by sequencing 16S rRNA and cpn60 gene amplicons. Analysis of 16S rRNA amplicon sequences using the RDPipeline and the Phoenix 2 pipeline showed that amplicons representing Ralstonia, Arcobacter, Sulfurospirillum, Methanohalophilus, Methanocalculus and Methanolobus spp. were abundant in most samples. Amplicons derived ...
... Brown mud, as a waste product of the industrial process of aluminum production, represents a great environmental burden due to its toxicity to living organisms. However, some microorganisms are able to survive in this habitat, and they can be used in bioremediation processes. Traditional cultivation methods have a limited capacity to characterize bacterial composition in environmental samples. Rec ...
... Marine anaerobic methane oxidation (AOM) is generally assumed to be coupled to sulfate reduction, via a consortium of anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (ANME) and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). ANME-1 are, however, often found as single cells, or only loosely aggregated with SRB, suggesting they perform a form of AOM independent of sulfate reduction. Oxidized metals and humic substances have b ...
Sulfurospirillum; data collection; environment; humans; hygiene; land use; microbial ecology; microbiome; opportunistic pathogens; plant pathogens; pollutants; runoff; subwatersheds
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... Cities are patchworks of urban catchments divided into functional units according to their commercial, residential and industrial activities, and socio-urbanistic patterns. The hypothesis of city surface microbiomes being structured by socio-urbanistic variables leading to an emergence of synurbic taxa was tested. According to the r/K microbial ecology theory, a gradient of well-adapted synurbic K ...
Arcobacter; Cyanobium; Pseudomonas; Sulfurospirillum; aquaculture; bacterial communities; biochemical oxygen demand; chemical oxygen demand; community structure; constructed wetlands; dissolved oxygen; fish; fisheries; irrigation; pollution control; research; sewage; water quality; water quality analysis; India
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... Bacterial community structure is one of the essential components of aquaculture dynamics and plays an important role in maintaining wetland health. The present work is an effort to study the structure of bacterial communities in the world’s largest sewage-fed fish farms, the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKWs), along with their predicted functional metabolic pathways and correlation with environmental va ...
... BACKGROUND, AIMS AND SCOPE: Sediments of the Spittelwasser creek are highly polluted with organic compounds and heavy metals due to the discharge of untreated waste waters from the industrial region of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany over the course of more than one century. However, relatively few data have been published about the chloroorganic contamination of the sediment. This paper reports on the ...
... Organohalides are highly versatile chemicals containing at least one carbon atom bound to a halogen atom such as chlorine, bromine, fluorine, or iodine. They include the dry-cleaning solvent tetrachloroethene (PCE), the industrial degreaser trichloroethene (TCE), ozone-depleting refrigerants such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and anti-stick compounds like Teflon. Organohalides are also produced b ...
... L-cysteine is used to improve efficiency in anaerobic biological systems as an oxygen scavenger, electron shuttle and substrate source. The performance of MEC by addition of L-cysteine was investigated during start-up and operation phases, respectively. Results showed that the maximum current density of 6.36 ± 0.14 A/m², hydrogen yield of 1.08 ± 0.05 m³/m³ and energy efficiency of 130% were achiev ...
... Two anaerobic bacterial consortia, each harboring a distinct Sulfurospirillum population, were derived from a 10 year old consortium, SL2, previously characterized for the stepwise dechlorination of tetrachloroethene (PCE) to cis-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) via accumulation of trichloroethene (TCE). Population SL2-1 dechlorinated PCE to TCE exclusively, while SL2-2 produced cis-DCE from PCE without s ...
... The role of the corrinoid cofactor in reductive dehalogenation catalysis by tetrachloroethene reductive dehalogenase (PceA) of Sulfurospirillum multivorans was investigated using isotope analysis of carbon and chlorine. Crude extracts containing PceA-harboring either a native norpseudo-B₁₂ or the alternative nor-B₁₂ cofactor-were applied for dehalogenation of tetrachloroethene (PCE) or trichloroet ...
... Comparative analyses of the amino acid sequence of the N-terminus of methacrylate reductase (50 kDa) from the anaerobic bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens AM-1 revealed significant similarity to the sites of flavocytochromes c and flavin-containing proteins of anaerobic bacteria from the genera Anaero-myxobacter, Campylobacter, Desulfatibacillum, Desulfuromonas, Geobacter, Parasutterella, Shewanel ...
arsenic; groundwater contamination; hydrochemistry; species diversity; Geobacter; Sulfurospirillum; fluorescence in situ hybridization; population density; chemical speciation; Maine
... Over the past few years biodegradation of trichloroethylene (TCE) using different microorganisms has been investigated by several researchers. In this review article, an attempt has been made to present a critical summary of the recent results related to two major processes - reductive dechlorination and aerobic co-metabolism used for TCE biodegradation. It has been shown that mainly Clostridium s ...