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Rosa-Masegosa A, Perez-Bou L, Muñoz-Palazon B, Monteoliva-García A, Gonzalez-Martinez A, Gonzalez-Lopez J, Correa-Galeote D. Effects of sulphur amino acids on the size and structure of microbial communities of aerobic granular sludge bioreactors. Amino Acids 2022; 54:1403-1419. [PMID: 35612670 PMCID: PMC9637606 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-022-03168-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
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Granular activated sludge has been described as a promising tool in treating wastewater. However, the effect of high concentrations of sulphur amino acids, cysteine and methionine, in the evolution, development and stability of AGS-SBRs (aerobic granular sludge in sequential batch reactors) and their microbial communities is not well-established. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate microbial communities' size, structure and dynamics in two AGS-SBRs fed with two different concentrations of amino acids (50 and 100 mg L−1 of both amino acids). In addition, the impact of the higher level of amino acids was also determined under an acclimatization or shock strategy. While N removal efficiency decreased with amino acids, the removal of the organic matter was generally satisfactory. Moreover, the abrupt presence of both amino acids reduced even further the removal performance of N, whereas under progressive adaptation, the removal yield was higher. Besides, excellent removal rates of cysteine and methionine elimination were found, in all stages below 80% of the influent values. Generally considered, the addition of amino acids weakly impacts the microbial communities' total abundances. On the contrary, the presence of amino acids sharply modulated the dominant bacterial structures. Furthermore, the highest amino acid concentration under the shock strategy resulted in a severe change in the structure of the microbial community. Acidovorax, Flavobacterium, Methylophilus, Stenotrophomonas and Thauera stood out as the prominent bacteria to cope with the high presence of cysteine and methionine. Hence, the AGS-SBR technology is valuable for treating influents enriched in sulphur Aa inclusively when a shock strategy was used.
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- Aurora Rosa-Masegosa
- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain.,Microbiology and Environmental Technology Section, Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Microbiology and Environmental Technology Section, Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain.,Microbial Biotechnology Group, Microbiology and Virology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Habana, Habana, Cuba
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- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain. .,Microbiology and Environmental Technology Section, Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain.,Microbiology and Environmental Technology Section, Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain.,Microbiology and Environmental Technology Section, Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain. .,Microbiology and Environmental Technology Section, Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, Andalucía, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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Iwasaki Y, Ichino T, Saito A. Transition of the Bacterial Community and Culturable Chitinolytic Bacteria in Chitin-treated Upland Soil: From Streptomyces to Methionine-auxotrophic Lysobacter and Other Genera. Microbes Environ 2020; 35. [PMID: 31932540 PMCID: PMC7104288 DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.me19070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Chitin amendment is an agricultural management strategy for controlling soil-borne plant disease. We previously reported an exponential decrease in chitin added to incubated upland soil. We herein investigated the transition of the bacterial community structure in chitin-degrading soil samples over time and the characteristics of chitinolytic bacteria in order to elucidate changes in the chitinolytic bacterial community structure during chitin degradation. The addition of chitin to soil immediately increased the population of bacteria in the genus Streptomyces, which is the main decomposer of chitin in soil environments. Lysobacter, Pseudoxanthomonas, Cellulosimicrobium, Streptosporangium, and Nonomuraea populations increased over time with decreases in that of Streptomyces. We isolated 104 strains of chitinolytic bacteria, among which six strains were classified as Lysobacter, from chitin-treated soils. These results suggested the involvement of Lysobacter as well as Streptomyces as chitin decomposers in the degradation of chitin added to soil. Lysobacter isolates required yeast extract or casamino acid for significant growth on minimal agar medium supplemented with glucose. Further nutritional analyses demonstrated that the six chitinolytic Lysobacter isolates required methionine (Met) to grow, but not cysteine or homocysteine, indicating Met auxotrophy. Met auxotrophy was also observed in two of the five type strains of Lysobacter spp. tested, and these Met auxotrophs used d-Met as well as l-Met. The addition of Met to incubated upland soil increased the population of Lysobacter. Met may be a factor increasing the population of Lysobacter in chitin-treated upland soil.
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- Yukari Iwasaki
- Department of Materials and Life Science, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
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- Department of Materials and Life Science, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
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- Department of Materials and Life Science, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
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Sun Y, Guan Y, Wang H, Wu G. Autotrophic nitrogen removal in combined nitritation and Anammox systems through intermittent aeration and possible microbial interactions by quorum sensing analysis. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 272:146-155. [PMID: 30336396 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 10/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Nitrogen removal and microbial interactions in two combined nitritation and Anammox systems with or without the addition of organics were examined. Two systems were successfully started up by adopting intermittent aeration. Organics addition deteriorated nitrogen removal, and total inorganic nitrogen and ammonium removal percentages decreased by 16.4% and 26.3%, respectively. Organics addition promoted the growth of Chloroflexi and Proteobacteria while suppressed the growth of Candidatus Kuenenia. Organics addition decreased activities of fatty acid biosynthesis and metabolism, amino acid metabolism and biofilm formation, while increased activities of steroid metabolism and glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis. Heterotrophs and Candidatus Kuenenia might interact with other organisms by using diverse quorum sensing systems. Chloroflexi and Proteobacteria interacted with Candidatus Kuenenia in nitrogen metabolism and biofilm formation. Proteobacteria played a key role in building a nitrite loop with Candidatus Kuenenia and nitrifiers. These results clarified microbial interactions in the autotrophic nitrogen removal process and advance its application.
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- Yuepeng Sun
- Guangdong Province Engineering Research Center for Urban Water Recycling and Environmental Safety, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Guangdong Province Engineering Research Center for Urban Water Recycling and Environmental Safety, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- Guangdong Province Engineering Research Center for Urban Water Recycling and Environmental Safety, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China.
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Gonzalez-Martinez A, Margareto A, Rodriguez-Sanchez A, Pesciaroli C, Diaz-Cruz S, Barcelo D, Vahala R. Linking the Effect of Antibiotics on Partial-Nitritation Biofilters: Performance, Microbial Communities and Microbial Activities. Front Microbiol 2018. [PMID: 29535704 PMCID: PMC5834488 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The emergence and spread of antibiotics resistance in wastewater treatment systems have been pointed as a major environmental health problem. Nevertheless, research about adaptation and antibiotics resistance gain in wastewater treatment systems subjected to antibiotics has not been successfully developed considering bioreactor performance, microbial community dynamics and microbial activity dynamics at the same time. To observe this in autotrophic nitrogen removal systems, a partial-nitritation biofilter was subjected to a continuous loading of antibiotics mix of azithromycin, norfloxacin, trimethoprim, and sulfamethoxazole. The effect of the antibiotics mix over the performance, bacterial communities and bacterial activity in the system was evaluated. The addition of antibiotics caused a drop of ammonium oxidation efficiency (from 50 to 5%) and of biomass concentration in the bioreactor, which was coupled to the loss of ammonium oxidizing bacteria Nitrosomonas in the bacterial community from 40 to 3%. Biomass in the partial nitritation biofilter experienced a sharp decrease of about 80% due to antibiotics loading, but the biomass adapted and experienced a growth by stabilization under antibiotics feeding. During the experiment several bacterial genera appeared, such as Alcaligenes, Paracoccus, and Acidovorax, clearly dominating the bacterial community with >20% relative abundance. The system reached around 30% ammonium oxidation efficiency after adaptation to antibiotics, but no effluent nitrite was found, suggesting that dominant antibiotics-resistant phylotypes could be involved in nitrification–denitrification metabolisms. The activity of ammonium oxidation measured as amoA and hao gene expression dropped a 98.25% and 99.21%, respectively, comparing the system before and after the addition of antibiotics. On the other hand, denitrifying activity increased as observed by higher expression of nir and nos genes (83.14% and 252.54%, respectively). In addition, heterotrophic nitrification cyt c-551 was active only after the antibiotics addition. Resistance to the antibiotics was presumably given by ermF, carA and msrA for azithromycin, mutations of the gyrA and grlB for norfloxacin, and by sul123 genes for sulfamethoxazole. Joined physicochemical and microbiological characterization of the system were used to investigate the effect of the antibiotics over the bioprocess. Despite the antibiotics resistance, activity of Bacteria decreased while the activity of Archaea and Fungi increased.
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Barcelona, Spain.,Catalan Institute for Water Research, Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Barcelona, Spain.,Catalan Institute for Water Research, Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Barcelona, Spain.,Catalan Institute for Water Research, Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Built Environment, School of Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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Gonzalez-Martinez A, Rodriguez-Sanchez A, van Loosdrecht MCM, Gonzalez-Lopez J, Vahala R. Detection of comammox bacteria in full-scale wastewater treatment bioreactors using tag-454-pyrosequencing. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 23:25501-25511. [PMID: 27783252 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-7914-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The nitrogen cycle has been expanded with the recent discovery of Nitrospira strains that can conduct complete ammonium oxidation (commamox). Their importance in the nitrogen cycle within engineered ecosystems has not yet been analyzed. In this research, the community structure of the Bacteria domain of six full-scale activated sludge systems and three autotrophic nitrogen removal systems in the Netherlands and China has been investigated through tag-454-pyrosequencing. The phylogenetic analyses conducted in the present study showed that just a few of the Nitrospira sequences found in the bioreactors were comammox. Multivariate redundancy analysis of nitrifying genera showed an outcompetition of Nitrosomonas and non-comammox Nitrospira. Operational data from the bioreactors suggested that comammox could be favored at low temperature, low nitrogen substrate, and high dissolved oxygen. The non-ubiquity and low relative abundance of comammox in full-scale bioreactors suggested that this phylotype is not very relevant in the nitrogen cycle in wastewater treatment plants.
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- Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez
- Department of Built Environment, School of engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15200, Aalto, FI-00076, Espoo, Finland.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Technical University of Delft, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, C/Ramón y Cajal, 4, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Built Environment, School of engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15200, Aalto, FI-00076, Espoo, Finland
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Rodriguez-Sanchez A, Munoz-Palazon B, Maza-Marquez P, Gonzalez-Lopez J, Vahala R, Gonzalez-Martinez A. Process performance and bacterial community dynamics of partial-nitritation biofilters subjected to different concentrations of cysteine amino acid. Biotechnol Prog 2016; 32:1254-1263. [PMID: 27453498 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.2331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2016] [Revised: 04/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Partial-nitritation processes are used for the biological treatment of high nitrogen-low organic carbon effluents, such as anaerobic digestion reject water. The release of certain products generated during the anaerobic digestion process, such as amino acids, could potentially reduce the performance of these partial-nitritation bioprocesses. To investigate this, four partial-nitritation biofilters were subjected to continuous addition of 0, 150, 300, and 500 mg L-1 cysteine amino acid in their influents. The addition of the amino acid had an impact over the performance of the partial-nitritation process and the bacterial community dynamics of the systems analyzed. Ammonium oxidation efficiency decreased with the addition of the amino acid, and a net nitrogen elimination occurred in presence of cysteine through the operation period. Bacterial community dynamics showed a decrease of Nitrosomonas species and a proliferation of putative heterotrophs with nitrification capacity, such as Pseudomonas, or denitrification capacity, such as Denitrobacter or Alicycliphilus. The addition of cysteine irreversible affected the bioreactors, which could not achieve the performance obtained before the addition of the amino acid. A mathematical predictive equation of the process performance depending on cysteine concentration added and operational time under such concentration was developed. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 32:1254-1263, 2016.
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- Inst. of Water Research, University of Granada C/Ramon Y Cajal 4, Granada, 18071, Spain
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- Inst. of Water Research, University of Granada C/Ramon Y Cajal 4, Granada, 18071, Spain
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- Inst. of Water Research, University of Granada C/Ramon Y Cajal 4, Granada, 18071, Spain
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- Dept. of Built Environment, School of Engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15200, Aalto, FI-00076, Espoo, Finland
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- Dept. of Built Environment, School of Engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15200, Aalto, FI-00076, Espoo, Finland. alejandro.gonzalezmartinez@aalto
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