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Schubert F, Kallmeyer J. Liquid scintillation counting at the limit of detection in biogeosciences. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1194848. [PMID: 37485520 PMCID: PMC10361571 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1194848] [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: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
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Liquid scintillation is widely used to quantify the activity of radioisotopes. We present an overview of the technique and its application to biogeosciences, particularly for turnover rate measurements. Microbial communities and their metabolism are notoriously difficult to analyze in low energy environments as biomass is exceedingly sparse and turnover rates low. Highly sensitive methods, such as liquid scintillation counting, are required to investigate low metabolic rates and conclusively differentiate them from the background noise of the respective analyzer. We conducted a series of experiments to explore the effects of luminescence, measurement time and temperature on scintillation measurements. Luminescence, the spontaneous emission of photons, disproportionally affects samples within the first few hours after sample preparation and can be minimized by following simple guidelines. Short measurement times will negatively affect liquid scintillation analysis or if background noise makes up a significant proportion of the detected events. Measurement temperature affected liquid scintillation analysis only when the temperature during the measurement reached approximately 30°C or higher, i.e. the liquid scintillation analyzer was placed in an environment without temperature control, but not in cases where chemicals were stored at elevated temperatures prior to measurement. Basic understanding on the functionality of a liquid scintillation analyzer and simple precautions prior to the measurement can significantly lower the minimum detection limit and therefore allow for determination of low turnover rates previously lost in the background noise.
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Woo AYM, Aguilar Ramos MA, Narayan R, Richards-Corke KC, Wang ML, Sandoval-Espinola WJ, Balskus EP. Targeting the human gut microbiome with small-molecule inhibitors. NATURE REVIEWS. CHEMISTRY 2023; 7:319-339. [PMID: 37117817 DOI: 10.1038/s41570-023-00471-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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The human gut microbiome is a complex microbial community that is strongly linked to both host health and disease. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of these microorganisms on host biology remain largely uncharacterized. The development of non-lethal, small-molecule inhibitors that target specific gut microbial activities enables a powerful but underutilized approach to studying the gut microbiome and a promising therapeutic strategy. In this Review, we will discuss the challenges of studying this microbial community, the historic use of small-molecule inhibitors in microbial ecology, and recent applications of this strategy. We also discuss the evidence suggesting that host-targeted drugs can affect the growth and metabolism of gut microbes. Finally, we address the issues of developing and implementing microbiome-targeted small-molecule inhibitors and define important future directions for this research.
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- Amelia Y M Woo
- Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Biotecnología, Laboratorio de Biotecnología Microbiana, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
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- Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Wikström J, Bonaglia S, Rämö R, Renman G, Walve J, Hedberg J, Gunnarsson JS. Sediment Remediation with New Composite Sorbent Amendments to Sequester Phosphorus, Organic Contaminants, and Metals. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:11937-11947. [PMID: 34435488 PMCID: PMC8427744 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c02308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Revised: 08/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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This study tested two sediment amendments with active sorbents: injection of aluminum (Al) into sediments and thin-layer capping with Polonite (calcium-silicate), with and without the addition of activated carbon (AC), for their simultaneous sequestration of sediment phosphorus (P), hydrophobic organic contaminants (HOCs), and metals. Sediment cores were collected from a eutrophic and polluted brackish water bay in Sweden and incubated in the laboratory to measure sediment-to-water contaminant release and effects on biogeochemical processes. We used diffusive gradients in thin-film passive samplers for metals and semi-permeable membrane devices for the HOC polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Al injection into anoxic sediments completely stopped the release of P and reduced the release of cadmium (Cd, -97%) and zinc (Zn, -95%) but increased the sediment fluxes of PAH (+49%), compared to the untreated sediment. Polonite mixed with AC reduced the release of P (-70%), Cd (-67%), and Zn (-89%) but increased methane (CH4) release. Adding AC to the Al or Polonite reduced the release of HOCs by 40% in both treatments. These results not only demonstrate the potential of innovative remediation techniques using composite sorbent amendments but also highlight the need to assess possible ecological side effects on, for example, sedimentary microbial processes.
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- Johan Wikström
- Department
of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Technology,
Division of Water and Environmental Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Shimoshige H, Kobayashi H, Shimamura S, Mizuki T, Inoue A, Maekawa T. Isolation and cultivation of a novel sulfate-reducing magnetotactic bacterium belonging to the genus Desulfovibrio. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0248313. [PMID: 33705469 PMCID: PMC7951924 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) synthesize magnetosomes composed of membrane-enveloped magnetite (Fe3O4) and/or greigite (Fe3S4) nanoparticles in the cells. It is known that the magnetotactic Deltaproteobacteria are ubiquitous and inhabit worldwide in the sediments of freshwater and marine environments. Mostly known MTB belonging to the Deltaproteobacteria are dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria that biomineralize bullet-shaped magnetite nanoparticles, but only a few axenic cultures have been obtained so far. Here, we report the isolation, cultivation and characterization of a dissimilatory sulfate-reducing magnetotactic bacterium, which we designate “strain FSS-1”. We found that the strain FSS-1 is a strict anaerobe and uses casamino acids as electron donors and sulfate as an electron acceptor to reduce sulfate to hydrogen sulfide. The strain FSS-1 produced bullet-shaped magnetite nanoparticles in the cells and responded to external magnetic fields. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the strain FSS-1 is a member of the genus Desulfovibrio, showing a 96.7% sequence similarity to Desulfovibrio putealis strain B7-43T. Futhermore, the magnetosome gene cluster of strain FSS-1 was different from that of Desulfovibrio magneticus strain RS-1. Thus, the strain FSS-1 is considered to be a novel sulfate-reducing magnetotactic bacterium belonging to the genus Desulfovibrio.
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- Hirokazu Shimoshige
- Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
- * E-mail: (TM); (HS)
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- Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
- Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
- * E-mail: (TM); (HS)
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Kring DA, Whitehouse MJ, Schmieder M. Microbial Sulfur Isotope Fractionation in the Chicxulub Hydrothermal System. ASTROBIOLOGY 2021; 21:103-114. [PMID: 33124879 PMCID: PMC7826424 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2020.2286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Target lithologies and post-impact hydrothermal mineral assemblages in a new 1.3 km deep core from the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater indicate sulfate reduction was a potential energy source for a microbial ecosystem (Kring et al., 2020). That sulfate was metabolized is confirmed here by microscopic pyrite framboids with δ34S values of -5 to -35 ‰ and ΔSsulfate-sulfide values between pyrite and source sulfate of 25 to 54 ‰, which are indicative of biologic fractionation rather than inorganic fractionation processes. These data indicate the Chicxulub impact crater and its hydrothermal system hosted a subsurface microbial community in porous permeable niches within the crater's peak ring.
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- David A. Kring
- Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, Texas, USA
- HNU–Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany
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Philben M, Zhang L, Yang Z, Taş N, Wullschleger SD, Graham DE, Gu B. Anaerobic respiration pathways and response to increased substrate availability of Arctic wetland soils. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. PROCESSES & IMPACTS 2020; 22:2070-2083. [PMID: 33084697 DOI: 10.1039/d0em00124d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The availability of labile carbon (C) compounds in Arctic wetland soils is expected to increase due to thawing permafrost and increased fermentation as a result of decomposition of organic matter with warming. How microbial communities respond to this change will affect the balance of CO2 and CH4 emitted during anaerobic organic matter decomposition, and ultimately the net radiative forcing of greenhouse gas emissions from these soils. While soil water content limits aerobic respiration, the factors controlling methanogenesis and anaerobic respiration are poorly defined in suboxic Arctic soils. We conducted incubation experiments on two tundra soils from field sites on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, with contrasting pH and geochemistry to determine the pathways of anaerobic microbial respiration and changes with increasing substrate availability upon warming. In incubation of soils from the circumneutral Teller site, the ratio of CO2 to CH4 dropped from 10 to <2 after 60 days, indicating rapid depletion of alternative terminal electron acceptors (TEAs). Addition of acetate stimulated production of CO2 and CH4 in a nearly 1 : 1 ratio, consistent with methanogenesis, and the composition of the microbial community shifted to favor clades capable of utilizing the added acetate such as the Fe(iii)-reducing Geobacter and the methanogenic archaea Methanosarcina. In contrast, both CO2 and CH4 production declined with acetate addition during incubation of soils from the more acidic Council site, and fermentative microorganisms increased in abundance despite the high availability of fermentation products. These results demonstrate that the degree to which increasing substrate availability stimulates greenhouse gas production in tundra wetlands will vary widely depending on soil pH and geochemistry.
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- Michael Philben
- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
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Wegner CE, Gaspar M, Geesink P, Herrmann M, Marz M, Küsel K. Biogeochemical Regimes in Shallow Aquifers Reflect the Metabolic Coupling of the Elements Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Carbon. Appl Environ Microbiol 2019; 85:e02346-18. [PMID: 30578263 PMCID: PMC6384109 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02346-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Near-surface groundwaters are prone to receive (in)organic matter input from their recharge areas and are known to harbor autotrophic microbial communities linked to nitrogen and sulfur metabolism. Here, we use multi-omic profiling to gain holistic insights into the turnover of inorganic nitrogen compounds, carbon fixation processes, and organic matter processing in groundwater. We sampled microbial biomass from two superimposed aquifers via monitoring wells that follow groundwater flow from its recharge area through differences in hydrogeochemical settings and land use. Functional profiling revealed that groundwater microbiomes are mainly driven by nitrogen (nitrification, denitrification, and ammonium oxidation [anammox]) and to a lesser extent sulfur cycling (sulfur oxidation and sulfate reduction), depending on local hydrochemical differences. Surprisingly, the differentiation potential of the groundwater microbiome surpasses that of hydrochemistry for individual monitoring wells. Being dominated by a few phyla (Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Planctomycetes, and Thaumarchaeota), the taxonomic profiling of groundwater metagenomes and metatranscriptomes revealed pronounced differences between merely present microbiome members and those actively participating in community gene expression and biogeochemical cycling. Unexpectedly, we observed a constitutive expression of carbohydrate-active enzymes encoded by different microbiome members, along with the groundwater flow path. The turnover of organic carbon apparently complements for lithoautotrophic carbon assimilation pathways mainly used by the groundwater microbiome depending on the availability of oxygen and inorganic electron donors, like ammonium.IMPORTANCE Groundwater is a key resource for drinking water production and irrigation. The interplay between geological setting, hydrochemistry, carbon storage, and groundwater microbiome ecosystem functioning is crucial for our understanding of these important ecosystem services. We targeted the encoded and expressed metabolic potential of groundwater microbiomes along an aquifer transect that diversifies in terms of hydrochemistry and land use. Our results showed that the groundwater microbiome has a higher spatial differentiation potential than does hydrochemistry.
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- Carl-Eric Wegner
- Chair of Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Chair of Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Chair of Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Chair of Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- Leibniz Institute on Aging, Fritz Lipman Institute, Jena, Germany
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- Chair of Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Biodegradability of legacy crude oil contamination in Gulf War damaged groundwater wells in Northern Kuwait. Biodegradation 2019; 30:71-85. [DOI: 10.1007/s10532-019-09867-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 01/19/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Kern M, Watzinger A, Scherr KE. 15N-nitrate and 34S-sulfate isotopic fractionation reflects electron acceptor 'recycling' during hydrocarbon biodegradation. N Biotechnol 2016; 38:91-100. [PMID: 27079862 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2016.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Revised: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The analysis of stable carbon isotopes for the assessment of contaminant fate in the aquifer is impeded in the case of petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) by their chain length. Alternatively, the coupled nitrogen-sulfur-carbon cycles involved into TPH biodegradation under sulfate- and nitrate reducing conditions can be investigated using nitrogen (δ15N) and sulfur (δ34S) isotopic shifts in terminal electron acceptors (TEA) involved in anaerobic TPH oxidation. Biodegradation of a paraffin-rich crude oil was studied in anaerobic aquifer microcosms with nitrate (NIT), sulfate (SUL), nitrate plus sulfate (MIX) and nitrate under sulfate reduction suppression by molybdate (MOL) as TEA. After 8 months, TPH biodegradation was not different (around 33%) in experiments receiving only nitrate (NIT, MOL) versus under mixed TEA-conditions (MIX), despite higher biodiversity under mixed conditions (H'NIT and H'MOL≈5.9, H'MIX=8.0). Molybdate addition effected higher nitrate depletion, possibly by increasing the production of nitrate reductase. Additional sulfate depletion under mixed conditions suggested bioconversion of polar intermediates. Microcosms only receiving sulfate (SUL) showed no significant TEA and TPH decrease. A Rayleigh kinetic isotope enrichment model for isotopic 15N/14N and 34S/32S shifts in residual TEA gave apparent enrichment factors ɛN,NIT and ɛN,MOL values of -16.7 to -18.0‰ for nitrate as sole TEA and ɛN,MIX of -6.0‰ and ɛS,MIX of -4.1‰ under mixed electron accepting conditions. The low isotopic fractionation under mixed terminal electron accepting conditions was attributed to lithotrophic, sulfide-dependent denitrification by Thiobacillus species, while it was hypothesized that Desulfovibrio replenished the reduced sulfur pool via oxidation of polar hydrocarbon metabolites. Concurrently, organotrophic denitrification was performed by Pseudomonas species, with isotopic fractionation expressed by ɛN,MIX representing the superposition of both denitrification processes. This is, to our knowledge, the first characterization of sulfur and nitrogen isotopic shifts associated to concurrent organotrophic and lithotrophic denitrification in a hydrocarbon-contaminated environment, and offers the prospect of improved understanding of biogeochemical cycles including in situ hydrocarbon biotransformation.
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- Martin Kern
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Department IFA-Tulln, Institute for Environmental Biotechnology, Konrad Lorenz Strasse 20, 3430 Tulln, Austria
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- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Energy Department, Environmental Resources and Technologies, Konrad Lorenz Straße 24, 3430 Tulln, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Department IFA-Tulln, Institute for Environmental Biotechnology, Konrad Lorenz Strasse 20, 3430 Tulln, Austria.
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Glombitza C, Stockhecke M, Schubert CJ, Vetter A, Kallmeyer J. Sulfate reduction controlled by organic matter availability in deep sediment cores from the saline, alkaline Lake Van (Eastern Anatolia, Turkey). Front Microbiol 2013; 4:209. [PMID: 23908647 PMCID: PMC3725400 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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As part of the International Continental Drilling Program deep lake drilling project PaleoVan, we investigated sulfate reduction (SR) in deep sediment cores of the saline, alkaline (salinity 21.4‰, alkalinity 155 m mEq-1, pH 9.81) Lake Van, Turkey. The cores were retrieved in the Northern Basin (NB) and at Ahlat Ridge (AR) and reached a maximum depth of 220 m. Additionally, 65–75 cm long gravity cores were taken at both sites. SR rates (SRR) were low (≤22 nmol cm-3 day-1) compared to lakes with higher salinity and alkalinity, indicating that salinity and alkalinity are not limiting SR in Lake Van. Both sites differ significantly in rates and depth distribution of SR. In NB, SRR are up to 10 times higher than at AR. SR could be detected down to 19 mblf (meters below lake floor) at NB and down to 13 mblf at AR. Although SRR were lower at AR than at NB, organic matter (OM) concentrations were higher. In contrast, dissolved OM in the pore water at AR contained more macromolecular OM and less low molecular weight OM. We thus suggest, that OM content alone cannot be used to infer microbial activity at Lake Van but that quality of OM has an important impact as well. These differences suggest that biogeochemical processes in lacustrine sediments are reacting very sensitively to small variations in geological, physical, or chemical parameters over relatively short distances.
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- Clemens Glombitza
- Geomicrobiology Group, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany
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Miao Z, Brusseau ML, Carroll KC, Carreón-Diazconti C, Johnson B. Sulfate reduction in groundwater: characterization and applications for remediation. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH 2012. [PMID: 21947714 DOI: 10.1007/s1065301194231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Sulfate is ubiquitous in groundwater, with both natural and anthropogenic sources. Sulfate reduction reactions play a significant role in mediating redox conditions and biogeochemical processes for subsurface systems. They also serve as the basis for innovative in situ methods for groundwater remediation. An overview of sulfate reduction in subsurface environments is provided, along with a brief discussion of characterization methods and applications for addressing acid mine drainage. We then focus on two innovative, in situ methods for remediating sulfate-contaminated groundwater, the use of zero-valent iron and the addition of electron-donor substrates. The advantages and limitations associated with the methods are discussed, with examples of prior applications.
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- Z Miao
- Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, 429 Shantz Building #38, PO Box 210038, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Miao Z, Brusseau ML, Carroll KC, Carreón-Diazconti C, Johnson B. Sulfate reduction in groundwater: characterization and applications for remediation. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH 2012; 34:539-50. [PMID: 21947714 PMCID: PMC3575751 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-011-9423-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2011] [Accepted: 09/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Sulfate is ubiquitous in groundwater, with both natural and anthropogenic sources. Sulfate reduction reactions play a significant role in mediating redox conditions and biogeochemical processes for subsurface systems. They also serve as the basis for innovative in situ methods for groundwater remediation. An overview of sulfate reduction in subsurface environments is provided, along with a brief discussion of characterization methods and applications for addressing acid mine drainage. We then focus on two innovative, in situ methods for remediating sulfate-contaminated groundwater, the use of zero-valent iron and the addition of electron-donor substrates. The advantages and limitations associated with the methods are discussed, with examples of prior applications.
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- Z. Miao
- Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, 429 Shantz Building #38, P.O. Box 210038, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Harshbarger Building #11, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, 429 Shantz Building #38, P.O. Box 210038, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Harshbarger Building #11, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Corresponding author, , 520-621-1646
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352
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- Engineering Institute, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali, Baja California, México
- Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- In TerraLogic Inc., Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Ahammad SZ, Gomes J, Sreekrishnan TR. A mathematical model for the interactive behavior of sulfate-reducing bacteria and methanogens during anaerobic digestion. WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH : A RESEARCH PUBLICATION OF THE WATER ENVIRONMENT FEDERATION 2011; 83:791-801. [PMID: 22073726 DOI: 10.2175/106143011x12989211840819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Anaerobic degradation of waste involves different classes of microorganisms, and there are different types of interactions among them for substrates, terminal electron acceptors, and so on. A mathematical model is developed based on the mass balance of different substrates, products, and microbes present in the system to study the interaction between methanogens and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). The performance of major microbial consortia present in the system, such as propionate-utilizing acetogens, butyrate-utilizing acetogens, acetoclastic methanogens, hydrogen-utilizing methanogens, and SRB were considered and analyzed in the model. Different substrates consumed and products formed during the process also were considered in the model. The experimental observations and model predictions showed very good prediction capabilities of the model. Model prediction was validated statistically. It was observed that the model-predicted values matched the experimental data very closely, with an average error of 3.9%.
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- S Ziauddin Ahammad
- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
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Burdige DJ. Microbial processes affecting alanine and glutamic acid in anoxic marine sediments. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.1991.tb01727.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Drevnick PE, Muir DCG, Lamborg CH, Horgan MJ, Canfield DE, Boyle JF, Rose NL. Increased accumulation of sulfur in lake sediments of the high arctic. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2010; 44:8415-8421. [PMID: 20973547 DOI: 10.1021/es101991p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We report a synchronous increase in accumulation of reduced inorganic sulfur since c. 1980 in sediment cores from eight of nine lakes studied in the Canadian Arctic and Svalbard (Norway). Sediment incubations and detailed analyses of sediment profiles from two of the lakes indicate that increases in sulfur accumulation may be due ultimately to a changing climate. Warming-induced lengthening of the ice-free season is resulting in well-documented increases in algal production and sedimentation of the resulting detrital matter. Algal detritus is a rich source of labile carbon, which in these sediments stimulates dissimilatory sulfate reduction. The sulfide produced is stored in sediment (as acid volatile sulfide), converted to other forms of sulfur, or reoxidized to sulfate and lost to the water column. An acceleration of the sulfur cycle in Arctic lakes could have profound effects on important biogeochemical processes, such as carbon burial and mercury methylation.
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- Paul E Drevnick
- INRS-ETE, Université du Québec, 490 de la Couronne, Québec, QC G1K 9A9, Canada.
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King GM, Klug MJ. Comparative aspects of sulfur mineralization in sediments of a eutrophic lake basin. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 43:1406-12. [PMID: 16346037 PMCID: PMC244247 DOI: 10.1128/aem.43.6.1406-1412.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The net mineralization of organic sulfur compounds in surface sediments of Wintergreen Lake was estimated from a mass-balance budget of sulfur inputs and sediment sulfur concentrations. The net mineralization of organic sulfur inputs is <50% complete, which is consistent with the dominance of organic sulfur (>80% of total sulfur) in sediment. Although sediment sulfur is predominantly organic, sulfate reduction is the most significant process in terms of the quantities of sulfur transformed in surface sediments. Rates of sulfate reduction in these sediments average 7 mmol/m per day. On an annual basis, this rate is 19-fold greater than net rates of organic sulfur mineralization and 65-fold greater than sulfate ester hydrolysis.
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- G M King
- W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060
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Lovley DR, Dwyer DF, Klug MJ. Kinetic analysis of competition between sulfate reducers and methanogens for hydrogen in sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 43:1373-9. [PMID: 16346033 PMCID: PMC244242 DOI: 10.1128/aem.43.6.1373-1379.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The competition between sulfate-reducing and methanogenic bacteria for hydrogen was investigated in eutrophic lake sediments that contained low in situ sulfate concentrations and in sulfate-amended sediments. Sulfate reduction and methane production coexisted in situ in lake surface sediments (0 to 2 cm), but methane production was the dominant terminal process. Addition of 10 to 20 mM sulfate to sediments resulted in a decrease in the hydrogen partial pressure and a concomitant inhibition of methane production over time. Molybdate inhibition of sulfate reduction in sulfate-amended sediments was followed by an increase in the hydrogen partial pressure and the methane production rate to values comparable to those in sediments not amended with sulfate. The sulfate reducer population had a half-saturation constant for hydrogen uptake of 141 pascals versus 597 pascals for the methanogen population. Thus, when sulfate was not limiting, the lower half-saturation constant of sulfate reducers enabled them to inhibit methane production by lowering the hydrogen partial pressure below levels that methanogens could effectively utilize. However, methanogens coexisted with sulfate reducers in the presence of sulfate, and the outcome of competition at any time was a function of the rate of hydrogen production, the relative population sizes, and sulfate availability.
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- D R Lovley
- Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060
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Tugel JB, Hines ME, Jones GE. Microbial iron reduction by enrichment cultures isolated from estuarine sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 52:1167-72. [PMID: 16347216 PMCID: PMC239192 DOI: 10.1128/aem.52.5.1167-1172.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Microbial Fe reduction in acetate- and succinate-containing enrichment cultures initiated with an estuarine sediment inoculum was studied. Fe reduction was unaffected when SO(4) reduction was inhibited by MoO(4), indicating that both processes could occur independently. Bacterially produced sulfide precipitated as FeS but was not completely responsible for Fe reduction. The separation of oxidized Fe particles from bacteria by dialysis tubing demonstrated that direct bacterial contact was necessary for Fe reduction. Fe reduction in cultures amended with NO(3) was delayed until NO(3) and NO(2) were removed. However, bacterial attachment to oxidized Fe particles in NO(3)-amended cultures occurred early during growth in a manner similar to NO(3)-free cultures. During late stages of growth, bacteria not attached to Fe particles became pale and swollen, while attached cells remained bright blue when examined by 4',6-diamidine-2-phenylindole epifluo-rescence microscopy. The presence of added oxidized Mn had no effect on Fe reduction. The results suggested that enzymatic Fe reduction was responsible for reducing Fe in these cultures even in the presence of sulfide and that cells incapable of Fe reduction became unhealthy when Fe(III) was the only available electron acceptor.
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- J B Tugel
- Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824
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Phelps TJ, Zeikus JG. Influence of pH on Terminal Carbon Metabolism in Anoxic Sediments from a Mildly Acidic Lake. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 48:1088-95. [PMID: 16346672 PMCID: PMC241691 DOI: 10.1128/aem.48.6.1088-1095.1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The carbon and electron flow pathways and the bacterial populations responsible for transformation of H(2)-CO(2), formate, methanol, methylamine, acetate, glycine, ethanol, and lactate were examined in sediments collected from Knaack Lake, Wis. The sediments were 60% organic matter (pH 6.2) and did not display detectable sulfate-reducing activity, but they contained the following average concentration (in micromoles per liter of sediment) of metabolites and end products: sulfide, 10; methane, 1,540; CO(2), 3,950; formate, 25; acetate, 157; ethanol, 174; and lactate, 138. Methane was produced predominately from acetate, and only 4% of the total CH(4) was derived from CO(2). Methanogenesis was limited by low environmental temperature and sulfide levels and more importantly by low pH. Increasing in vitro pH to neutral values enhanced total methane production rates and the percentage of CO(2) transformed to methane but did not alter the amount of CO(2) produced from [2-C]acetate ( approximately 24%). Analysis of both carbon transformation parameters with C-labeled tracers and bacterial trophic group enumerations indicated that methanogenesis from acetate and both heterolactic- and acetic acid-producing fermentations were important to the anaerobic digestion process.
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- T J Phelps
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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Lovley DR, Klug MJ. Intermediary metabolism of organic matter in the sediments of a eutrophic lake. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 43:552-60. [PMID: 16345963 PMCID: PMC241873 DOI: 10.1128/aem.43.3.552-560.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The rates, products, and controls of the metabolism of fermentation intermediates in the sediments of a eutrophic lake were examined. C-fatty acids were directly injected into sediment subcores for turnover rate measurements. The highest rates of acetate turnover were in surface sediments (0- to 2-cm depth). Methane was the dominant product of acetate metabolism at all depths. Simultaneous measurements of acetate, propionate, and lactate turnover in surface sediments gave turnover rates of 159, 20, and 3 muM/h, respectively. [2-C]propionate and [U-C]lactate were metabolized to [C]acetate, CO(2), and CH(4). [C]formate was completely converted to CO(2) in less than 1 min. Inhibition of methanogenesis with chloroform resulted in an immediate accumulation of volatile fatty acids and hydrogen. Hydrogen inhibited the metabolism of C(3)-C(5) volatile fatty acids. The rates of fatty acid production were estimated from the rates of fatty acid accumulation in the presence of chloroform or hydrogen. The mean molar rates of production were acetate, 82%; propionate, 13%; butyrates, 2%; and valerates, 3%. A working model for carbon and electron flow is presented which illustrates that fermentation and methanogenesis are the predominate steps in carbon flow and that there is a close interaction between fermentative bacteria, acetogenic hydrogen-producing bacteria, and methanogens.
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- D R Lovley
- W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060, and Department of Microbiology and Public Health, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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Smith RL, Oremland RS. Anaerobic oxalate degradation: widespread natural occurrence in aquatic sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 46:106-13. [PMID: 16346332 PMCID: PMC239274 DOI: 10.1128/aem.46.1.106-113.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Significant concentrations of oxalate (dissolved plus particulate) were present in sediments taken from a diversity of aquatic environments, ranging from 0.1 to 0.7 mmol/liter of sediment. These included pelagic and littoral sediments from two freshwater lakes (Searsville Lake, Calif., and Lake Tahoe, Calif.), a hypersaline, meromictic, alkaline lake (Big Soda Lake, Nev.), and a South San Francisco Bay mud flat and salt marsh. The oxalate concentration of several plant species which are potential detrital inputs to these aquatic sediments ranged from 0.1 to 5.0% (wt/wt). In experiments with litter bags, the oxalate content of Myriophyllum sp. samples buried in freshwater littoral sediments decreased to 7% of the original value in 175 days. This suggests that plant detritus is a potential source of the oxalate within these sediments. [C]oxalic acid was anaerobically degraded to CO(2) in all sediment types tested, with higher rates evident in littoral sediments than in the pelagic sediments of the lakes studied. The turnover time of the added [C]oxalate was less than 1 day in Searsville Lake littoral sediments. The total sediment oxalate concentration did not vary significantly between littoral and pelagic sediments and therefore did not appear to be controlling the rate of oxalate degradation. However, depth profiles of [C]oxalate mineralization and dissolved oxalate concentration were closely correlated in freshwater littoral sediments; both were greatest in the surface sediments (0 to 5 cm) and decreased with depth. The dissolved oxalate concentration (9.1 mumol/liter of sediment) was only 3% of the total extractable oxalate (277 mumol/liter of sediment) at the sediment surface. These results suggest that anaerobic oxalate degradation is a widespread phenomenon in aquatic sediments and may be limited by the dissolved oxalate concentration within these sediments.
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- R L Smith
- Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
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Lovley DR, Klug MJ. Sulfate reducers can outcompete methanogens at freshwater sulfate concentrations. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 45:187-92. [PMID: 16346164 PMCID: PMC242251 DOI: 10.1128/aem.45.1.187-192.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Acetate and hydrogen metabolism by sulfate reducers and methanogens in the profundal sediments of an oligotrophic lake were examined. Inhibition of sulfate reduction with molybdate stimulated methane production from both hydrogen and acetate. Molybdate did not stimulate methane production in sediments that were preincubated to deplete the sulfate pool. Sulfate reduction accounted for 30 to 81% of the total of terminal metabolism proceeding through sulfate reduction and methane production in Eckman grab samples of surface sediments. The ability of sulfate reducers to effectively compete with methanogens for acetate was related to the sulfate reducers' lower half-saturation constant for acetate metabolism at in situ sulfate concentrations. Processes other than sulfate reduction and methanogenesis consumed hydrogen at elevated hydrogen partial pressures and prevented a kinetic analysis of hydrogen uptake by sulfate reducers and methanogens. The demonstration that sulfate reducers can successfully compete with methanogens for hydrogen and acetate in sediments at in situ sulfate concentrations of 60 to 105 muM extends the known range of sediment habitats in which sulfate reduction can be a dominant terminal process.
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- D R Lovley
- Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060, and Department of Microbiology and Public Health, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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Oremland RS, Polcin S. Methanogenesis and sulfate reduction: competitive and noncompetitive substrates in estuarine sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 44:1270-6. [PMID: 16346144 PMCID: PMC242184 DOI: 10.1128/aem.44.6.1270-1276.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 279] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Sulfate ions did not inhibit methanogenesis in estuarine sediments supplemented with methanol, trimethylamine, or methionine. However, sulfate greatly retarded methanogenesis when hydrogen or acetate was the substrate. Sulfate reduction was stimulated by acetate, hydrogen, and acetate plus hydrogen, but not by methanol or trimethylamine. These results indicate that sulfate-reducing bacteria will outcompete methanogens for hydrogen, acetate, or both, but will not compete with methanogens for compounds like methanol, trimethylamine, or methionine, thereby allowing methanogenesis and sulfate reduction to operate simultaneously within anoxic, sulfate-containing sediments.
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- R S Oremland
- U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
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Winfrey MR, Ward DM. Substrates for sulfate reduction and methane production in intertidal sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 45:193-9. [PMID: 16346165 PMCID: PMC242252 DOI: 10.1128/aem.45.1.193-199.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The activity of and potential substrates for methane-producing bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria were examined in marsh, estuary, and beach intertidal sediments. Slow rates of methane production were detected in all sediments, although rates of sulfate reduction were 100- to 1,000-fold higher. After sulfate was depleted in sediments, the rates of methane production sharply increased. The addition of methylamine stimulated methanogenesis in the presence of sulfate, and [C]methylamine was rapidly converted to CH(4) and CO(2) in freshly collected marsh sediment. Acetate, hydrogen, or methionine additions did not stimulate methanogenesis. [methyl-C]methionine and [2-C]acetate were converted to CO(2) and not to CH(4) in fresh sediment. No reduction of CO(2) to CH(4) occurred in fresh sediment. Molybdate, an inhibitor of sulfate reduction, inhibited [2-C]acetate metabolism by 98.5%. Fluoracetate, an inhibitor of acetate metabolism, inhibited sulfate reduction by 61%. These results suggest that acetate is a major electron donor for sulfate reduction in marine sediments. In the presence of high concentrations of sulfate, methane may be derived from novel substrates such as methylamine.
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- M R Winfrey
- Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717
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Isa Z, Grusenmeyer S, Verstraete W. Sulfate reduction relative to methane production in high-rate anaerobic digestion: technical aspects. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 51:572-9. [PMID: 16347018 PMCID: PMC238921 DOI: 10.1128/aem.51.3.572-579.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The effect of different substrates and different levels of sulfate and sulfide on methane production relative to sulfate reduction in high-rate anaerobic digestion was evaluated. Reactors could be acclimated so that sulfate up to a concentration of 5 g of sulfate S per liter did not significantly affect methanogenesis. Higher levels gave inhibition because of salt toxicity. Sulfate reduction was optimal at a relatively low level of sulfate, i.e., 0.5 g of sulfate S per liter, but was also not significantly affected by higher levels. Both acetoclastic and hydrogenotrophic methane-producing bacteria adapted to much higher levels of free H(2)S than the values reported in the literature (50% inhibition occurred only at free H(2)S levels of more than 1,000 mg/liter). High levels of free H(2)S affected the sulfate-reducing bacteria only slightly. Formate and acetate supported the sulfate-reducing bacteria very poorly. In the high-rate reactors studied, intensive H(2)S formation occurred only when H(2) gas or an H(2) precursor such as ethanol was supplied.
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- Z Isa
- Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, State University of Ghent, Coupure L 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Phelps TJ, Zeikus JG. Effect of fall turnover on terminal carbon metabolism in lake mendota sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 50:1285-91. [PMID: 16346933 PMCID: PMC238740 DOI: 10.1128/aem.50.5.1285-1291.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The carbon and electron flow pathways and the bacterial populations responsible for the transformation of H(2)-CO(2), formate, methanol, methylamine, acetate, ethanol, and lactate were examined in eutrophic sediments collected during summer stratification and fall turnover. The rate of methane formation averaged 1,130 mumol of CH(4) per liter of sediment per day during late-summer stratification versus 433 mumol of CH(4) per liter of sediment per day during the early portion of fall turnover, whereas the rate of sulfate reduction was 280 mumol of sulfate per liter of sediment per day versus 1,840 mumol of sulfate per liter of sediment per day during the same time periods, respectively. The sulfate-reducing population remained constant while the methanogenic population decreased by one to two orders of magnitude during turnover. The acetate concentration increased from 32 to 81 mumol per liter of sediment while the acetate transformation rate constant decreased from 3.22 to 0.70 per h, respectively, during stratification versus turnover. Acetate accounted for nearly 100% of total sedimentary methanogenesis during turnover versus 70% during stratification. The fraction of CO(2) produced from all C-labeled substrates examined was 10 to 40% higher during fall turnover than during stratification. The addition of sulfate, thiosulfate, or sulfur to stratified sediments mimicked fall turnover in that more CO(2) and CH(4) were produced. The addition of Desulfovibrio vulgaris to sulfate-amended sediments greatly enhanced the amount of CO(2) produced from either [C]methanol or [2-C]acetate, suggesting that H(2) consumption by sulfate reducers can alter methanol or acetate transformation by sedimentary methanogens. These data imply that turnover dynamically altered carbon transformation in eutrophic sediments such that sulfate reduction dominated over methanogenesis principally as a consequence of altering hydrogen metabolism.
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- T J Phelps
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, and Michigan Biotechnology Institute, Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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Laanbroek HJ, Geerligs HJ, Sijtsma L, Veldkamp H. Competition for sulfate and ethanol among desulfobacter, desulfobulbus, and desulfovibrio species isolated from intertidal sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 47:329-34. [PMID: 16346474 PMCID: PMC239669 DOI: 10.1128/aem.47.2.329-334.1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Competition for sulfate and ethanol among Desulfobacter, Desulfobulbus, and Desulfovibrio species isolated from estuarine sediments was studied in energy-limited chemostats. Desulfovibrio baculatus was the most successful competitor for limiting amounts of sulfate and ethanol, followed by Desulfobulbus propionicus. The success of Desulfovibrio baculatus was dependent on the availability of sufficient iron. Of the three species studied, Desulfobacter postgatei was the least successful competitor for limiting amounts of sulfate. Although stimulating the growth of Desulfobacter postgatei, addition of Ca-saturated illite particles to culture media did not affect the outcome of competition for sulfate. Thus, under sulfate limitation acetate accumulated. This phenomenon was briefly discussed in relation to the flow of electrons during anaerobic mineralization in marine and estuarine sulfate-limited sediments.
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- H J Laanbroek
- Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Groningen, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands
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Gough HL, Dahl AL, Tribou E, Noble PA, Gaillard JF, Stahl DA. Elevated sulfate reduction in metal-contaminated freshwater lake sediments. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1029/2008jg000738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Heidi L. Gough
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Northwestern University; Evanston Illinois USA
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; University of Washington; Seattle Washington USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Northwestern University; Evanston Illinois USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; University of Washington; Seattle Washington USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; University of Washington; Seattle Washington USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Northwestern University; Evanston Illinois USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; University of Washington; Seattle Washington USA
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Zhao Y, Ren N, Wang A. Contributions of fermentative acidogenic bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria to lactate degradation and sulfate reduction. CHEMOSPHERE 2008; 72:233-242. [PMID: 18331751 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.01.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2007] [Revised: 01/20/2008] [Accepted: 01/22/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The roles of fermentative acidogenic bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in lactate degradation and sulfate reduction in a sulfidogenic bioreactor were investigated by traditional chemical monitoring and culture-independent methods. A continuously stirred tank reactor fed with synthetic wastewater containing lactate and SO(2-)(4) at 35 degrees C, 10h of hydraulic retention time was used. The results showed that sulfate removal efficiency reached 99%, and sulfide and acetate were the main end products after 20 d of operation. 16S rRNA gene based clone libraries and single-strand conformation polymorphism profiles demonstrated that the proportion of SRB increased from 16% to 95%, and that Desulfobulbus spp., Desulfovibrio spp., Pseudomonas spp. and Clostridium spp. formed a stable, dominant community structure. The decreasing COD/SO(2-)(4) ratio had little effect on the community pattern except that Pseudomonas spp. and Desulfobulbus spp. increased slightly. The addition of molybdate to the influent significantly changed the microbial community, sulfate removal efficiency and the pattern of end products. Clostridium spp., Bacteroides spp. and Ruminococcus spp. became the dominant community members. The main end products switched from acetate to ethanol and then to propionate with the oxidation-reduction potentials increasing from -420 to -290 mV. A lactate degradation pathway was deduced: lactate served as the electronic donor for Desulfovibrio spp., or was fermented by Clostridium spp. and Bacteroides spp. to produce propionate or ethanol, which were subsequently utilized by Desulfobulbus spp. and Desulfovibrio spp. The acidotrophic SRB oxidized part of the acetate finally.
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- Yangguo Zhao
- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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Suhaimi M, Liessens J, Verstraete W. NH+/4-N assimilation byRhodobacter capsulatusATCC 23782 grown axenically and non-axenically in N and C rich media. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1987.tb02380.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Liessens J, Verstraete W. Selective inhibitors for continuous non-axenic hydrogen production byRhodobacter capsulatus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1986.tb01728.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Patidar SK, Tare V. Effect of molybdate on methanogenic and sulfidogenic activity of biomass. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2005; 96:1215-1222. [PMID: 15734307 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2004.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 06/04/2004] [Accepted: 11/05/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The effect of molybdate, a sulfate analog, on the total methanogenic activity (TMA) and total sulfidogenic activity (TSA) of biomass metabolizing synthetic sucrose based substrate containing sulfate was investigated in batch assays. In Phase I of the study, TMA and TSA were assessed twice for four feed changes at a chemical oxygen demand to sulfate (COD/SO(4)(2-)) ratio of 3.5. In Phase II, long-term experiments were conducted for 10-13 feed changes with varying chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration, sulfate concentration, COD/SO(4)(2-) ratio, molybdate dose and biomass with different growth histories. Assays with 3mM molybdate showed TSA inhibition over 85%. Dose dependency was observed for sulfate concentration, COD/SO(4)(2-) ratio, and biomass history. The minimum concentration that gave over 93% TSA inhibition was 0.25 mM. However, intermediate concentrations of molybdate inhibited methane producing bacteria (MPB) activity. TMA stimulation was observed at 0.75-2.0 mM molybdate.
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- S K Patidar
- Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra 136 119, India
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Stams AJM, Oude Elferink SJWH, Westermann P. Metabolic interactions between methanogenic consortia and anaerobic respiring bacteria. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2003; 81:31-56. [PMID: 12747560 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45839-5_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Most types of anaerobic respiration are able to outcompete methanogenic consortia for common substrates if the respective electron acceptors are present in sufficient amounts. Furthermore, several products or intermediate compounds formed by anaerobic respiring bacteria are toxic to methanogenic consortia. Despite the potentially adverse effects, only few inorganic electron acceptors potentially utilizable for anaerobic respiration have been investigated with respect to negative interactions in anaerobic digesters. In this chapter we review competitive and inhibitory interactions between anaerobic respiring populations and methanogenic consortia in bioreactors. Due to the few studies in anaerobic digesters, many of our discussions are based upon studies of defined cultures or natural ecosystems.
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- A J M Stams
- Wageningen University and Research Centre, Laboratory of Microbiology, Hesselink van Suchtelenweg 4, 6703 CT Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Chapter 3 The role of microorganisms during sediment diagenesis: Implications for radionuclide mobility. RADIOACTIVITY IN THE ENVIRONMENT 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-4860(02)80032-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Desulfovibrio mexicanus sp. nov., a Sulfate-reducing Bacterium Isolated from an Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Reactor Treating Cheese Wastewaters. Anaerobe 2000. [DOI: 10.1006/anae.2000.0354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Scholten JC, Conrad R, Stams AJ. Effect of 2-bromo-ethane sulfonate, molybdate and chloroform on acetate consumption by methanogenic and sulfate-reducing populations in freshwater sediment. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2000; 32:35-42. [PMID: 10779617 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2000.tb00696.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The relative importance of methanogenesis and sulfate reduction in freshwater sediment supplemented with acetate was investigated. Addition of acetate stimulated both methane formation and sulfate reduction, indicating that an active aceticlastic population of methanogens and sulfate reducers was present in the sediment. Sulfate reducers were most important in the consumption of acetate. However, when sulfate reducers were inhibited, acetate was metabolised at a similar rate by methanogens. Acetate, propionate and valerate accumulated only when both processes were inhibited by the combined addition of 2-bromo-ethane sulfonate and molybdate. The relative amounts of acetate, propionate and valerate were 93, 6 and 1 mol%, respectively. These results demonstrate the role of acetate as a key intermediate in the terminal step of organic matter mineralisation in the sediment. Addition of chloroform inhibited both methanogenesis and sulfate reduction. We studied the inhibitory effect of CHCl(3) on homoacetogenic bacteria, sulfate-reducing bacteria and methanogens. The results showed that inhibition by CHCl(3) correlates with microorganisms, which operate the acetyl-CoA cleavage pathway. We propose that chloroform can be used to elucidate the role of different metabolic types of sulfate reducers to sulfate reduction in natural environments.
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- JC Scholten
- Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Karl-von-Frisch-Str., D-35043, Marburg, Germany
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2-Bromoethanesulfonate, sulfate, molybdate, and ethanesulfonate inhibit anaerobic dechlorination of polychlorobiphenyls by pasteurized microorganisms. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:327-9. [PMID: 9872802 PMCID: PMC91025 DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.1.327-329.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dechlorination of Aroclor 1242 by pasteurized microorganisms was inhibited by 2-bromoethanesulfonate (BES), sulfate, molybdate, and ethanesulfonate. Consumption of these anions and production of sulfide from BES were detected. The inhibition could not be relieved by hydrogen. Taken together these results suggest that pattern M dechlorination is mediated by spore-forming sulfidogenic bacteria. These results also suggest that BES may inhibit anaerobic dechlorination by nonmethanogens by more than one mechanism.
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Fardeau ML, Patel BK, Magot M, Ollivier B. Utilization of Serine, Leucine, Isoleucine, and Valine byThermoanaerobacter brockiiin the Presence of Thiosulfate orMethanobacteriumsp. as Electron Acceptors. Anaerobe 1997; 3:405-10. [PMID: 16887616 DOI: 10.1006/anae.1997.0126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/1997] [Accepted: 08/26/1997] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Thermoanaerobacter brockii fermented serine to acetate and ethanol. It oxidized leucine to isovalerate, isoleucine to 2-methylbutyrate, and valine to isobutyrate only in the presence of thiosulfate, or when co-cultured with Methanobacterium sp. This oxidative deamination was rendered thermodynamically possible by the ability ofT. brockii to reduce thiosulfate to sulfide or the transfer of reducing equivalents to the hydrogenotrophic methanogen. The results suggest that T. brockii may be of ecological significance in thermal environments in the turnover of amino acids, especially with thiosulfate or H(2)-utilizing methanogens are present.
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- M L Fardeau
- Laboratoire ORSTOM de Microbiologie des Anaérobies, Université de Provence, CESB/ESILCase 925, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13288, Marseille Cedex 09, France
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Kennes C, Wu WM, Bhatnagar L, Zeikus JG. Anaerobic dechlorination and mineralization of pentachlorophenol and 2,4,6-trichlorophenol by methanogenic pentachlorophenol-degrading granules. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 1996; 44:801-6. [PMID: 8867638 DOI: 10.1007/bf00178622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Anaerobic granules developed for the treatment of pentachlorophenol (PCP) completely mineralized 14C-labeled PCP to 14CH4 and 14CO2. Release of chloride ions from PCP was performed by live cells in the granules under anaerobic conditions. No chloride ions were released under aerobic conditions or by autoclaved cells. Addition of sulfate enhanced the initial chloride release rate and accelerated the process of mineralization of 14C-labeled PCP. Addition of molybdate (10 mM) inhibited the chloride release rate and severely inhibited PCP mineralization. This suggests involvement of sulfate-reducing bacteria in PCP dechlorination and mineralization. Addition of 2-bromoethane sulfonate slightly decreased the chloride release rate and completely stopped production of 14CH4 and 14CO2 from [14C]PCP. 2,4,6-trichlorophenol was observed as an intermediate during PCP dechlorination. On the basis of experimental results, dechlorination of 2,4,6-trichlorophanol by the granules was conducted through 2,4-dichlorophenol, 4-chlorophenol or 2-chlorophenol to phenol at pH 7.0-7.2.
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- C Kennes
- Michigan Biotechnology Institute, Lansing, 48910-8396, USA
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Scholten JC, Stams AJ. The effect of sulfate and nitrate on methane formation in a freshwater sediment. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1995; 68:309-15. [PMID: 8821786 DOI: 10.1007/bf00874141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A freshwater sediment from a ditch of a peat grassland near Zegveld (Province of Utrecht, The Netherlands) was investigated for its potential methanogenic and syntrophic activity and the influence of sulfate and nitrate on these potential activities. Methanogenesis started after a 10 days lagphase. After 35-40 days aceticlastic methanogens were sufficiently enriched to cause a net decrease of acetate. In the presence of sulfate methane formation was only slightly affected. The addition of nitrate led to an outcompetition of aceticlastic methanogens by nitrate reducers. When inorganic electron acceptors were absent, substrates like propionate and butyrate were converted by syntrophic methanogenic consortia. Addition of inorganic electron acceptors resulted in an outcompetition of the syntrophic propionate and butyrate degrading consortia by the sulfate and nitrate reducers.
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- J C Scholten
- Department of Microbiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands
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Sasikala C, Ramana CV. Biotechnological potentials of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. I. Production of single-cell protein, vitamins, ubiquinones, hormones, and enzymes and use in waste treatment. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 1995; 41:173-226. [PMID: 7572333 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2164(08)70310-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- C Sasikala
- Department of Botany, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
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J.W.H. S, Elferink O, Visser A, Hulshoff Pol LW, Stams AJ. Sulfate reduction in methanogenic bioreactors. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1994. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1994.tb00130.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Parkes R, Dowling N, White D, Herbert R, Gibson G. Characterization of sulphate-reducing bacterial populations within marine and estuarine sediments with different rates of sulphate reduction. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1993. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1993.tb05815.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Wu WM, Hickey RF, Zeikus JG. Characterization of metabolic performance of methanogenic granules treating brewery wastewater: role of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 1991; 57:3438-49. [PMID: 1785921 PMCID: PMC183994 DOI: 10.1128/aem.57.12.3438-3449.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Granules from an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket system treating a brewery wastewater that contained mainly ethanol, propionate, and acetate as carbon sources and sulfate (0.6 to 1.0 mM) were characterized for their physical and chemical properties, metabolic performance on various substrates, and microbial composition. Transmission electron microscopic examination showed that at least three types of microcolonies existed inside the granules. One type consisted of Methanothrix-like rods with low levels of Methanobacterium-like rods; two other types appeared to be associations between syntrophic-like acetogens and Methanobacterium-like organisms. The granules were observed to be have numerous vents or channels on the surface that extended into the interior portions of the granules that may be involved in release of gas formed within the granules. The maximum substrate conversion rates (millimoles per gram of volatile suspended solids per day) at 35 degrees C in the absence of sulfate were 45.1, 8.04, 4.14, and 5.75 for ethanol, acetate, propionate, and glucose, respectively. The maximum methane production rates (millimoles per gram of volatile suspended solids per day) from H2-CO2 and formate were essentially equal for intact granules (13.7 and 13.5) and for physically disrupted granules (42 and 37). During syntrophic ethanol conversion, both hydrogen and formate were formed by the granules. The concentrations of these two intermediates were maintained at a thermodynamic equilibrium, indicating that both are intermediate metabolites in degradation. Formate accumulated and was then consumed during methanogenesis from H2-CO2. Higher concentrations of formate accumulated in the absence of sulfate than in the presence of sulfate. The addition of sulfate (8 to 9 mM) increased the maximum substrate degradation rates for propionate and ethanol by 27 and 12%, respectively. In the presence of this level of sulfate, sulfate-reducing bacteria did not play a significant role in the metabolism of H2, formate, and acetate, but ethanol and propionate were converted via sulfate reduction by approximately 28 and 60%, respectively. In the presence of 2.0 mM molybdate, syntrophic propionate and ethanol conversion by the granules was inhibited by 97 and 29%, respectively. The data show that in this granular microbial consortium, methanogens and sulfate-reducing bacteria did not compete for common substrates. Syntrophic propionate and ethanol conversion was likely performed primarily by sulfate-reducing bacteria, while H2, formate, and acetate were consumed primarily by methanogens.
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- W M Wu
- Michigan Biotechnology Institute, Lansing 48909
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Lovell CR, Hui Y. Design and testing of a functional group-specific DNA probe for the study of natural populations of acetogenic bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 1991; 57:2602-9. [PMID: 1768134 PMCID: PMC183627 DOI: 10.1128/aem.57.9.2602-2609.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The acetogens, although phylogenetically diverse, can be characterized by their possession of the acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) pathway for autotrophic CO2 fixation. The gene encoding formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase, a key enzyme of the acetyl-CoA pathway, was previously cloned from the thermophilic acetogen Clostridium thermoaceticum and has now been tested as a group-specific probe for acetogens. Stable hybrids were formed between the probe and single DNA fragments from eight known acetogens representing six genera. A hybrid was also formed between the probe and a DNA fragment from one sulfate reducer known to be capable of both autotrophic CO2 fixation and acetate catabolism. No such hybrid was formed between the probe and DNA from a homoacetate fermenter not known to use the acetyl-CoA pathway, with two known formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase-producing purine fermenters, or with DNA from 27 other species representing 16 genera of organisms that do not use the acetyl-CoA pathway. DNA purified from cells extracted from horse manure was also screened with the acetogen probe. Six hybrids, indicating at least six detectable acetogen "strains," were observed.
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- C R Lovell
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208
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Burdige DJ. Microbial processes affecting alanine and glutamic acid in anoxic marine sediments. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1991. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1991.tb04728.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Derikx PJ, Simons FH, Op den Camp HJ, van der Drift C, Van Griensven LJ, Vogels GD. Evolution of Volatile Sulfur Compounds during Laboratory-Scale Incubations and Indoor Preparation of Compost Used as a Substrate in Mushroom Cultivation. Appl Environ Microbiol 1991; 57:563-7. [PMID: 16348421 PMCID: PMC182749 DOI: 10.1128/aem.57.2.563-567.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Volatile sulfur compounds are known to be produced during the preparation of compost used as a substrate in mushroom cultivation. Because they cause odor problems, attempts have been made to reduce the production of these compounds. The influences of temperature and various additions on the production of volatile sulfur compounds from composting material were tested on laboratory-scale preparations. The production of H
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- P J Derikx
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Gibson GR. Physiology and ecology of the sulphate-reducing bacteria. THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY 1990; 69:769-97. [PMID: 2286579 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1990.tb01575.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- G R Gibson
- Medical Research Council, Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Cambridge, UK
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Qatibi AI, Bories A, Garcia JL. Effects of sulfate on lactate and C2-, C3- volatile fatty acid anaerobic degradation by a mixed microbial culture. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1990; 58:241-8. [PMID: 2082810 DOI: 10.1007/bf00399335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The effects of sulfate on the anaerobic degradation of lactate, propionate, and acetate by a mixed bacterial culture from an anaerobic fermenter fed with wine distillery waste water were investigated. Without sulfate and with both sulfate and molybdate, lactate was rapidly consumed, and propionate and acetate were produced; whereas with sulfate alone, only acetate accumulated. Propionate oxidation was strongly accelerated by the presence of sulfate, but sulfate had no effect on acetate consumption even when methanogenesis was inhibited by chloroform. The methane production was not affected by the presence of sulfate. Counts of lactate- and propionate-oxidizing sulfate-reducing bacteria in the mixed culture gave 4.5 X 10(8) and 1.5 X 10(6) viable cells per ml, respectively. The number of lactate-oxidizing fermentative bacteria was 2.2 X 10(7) viable cells per ml, showing that sulfate-reducing bacteria outcompete fermentative bacteria for lactate in the ecosystem studied. The number of acetoclastic methanogens was 3.5 X 10(8) viable cells per ml, but only 2.5 X 10(4) sulfate reducers were counted on acetate, showing that acetotrophic methanogens completely predominated over acetate-oxidizing sulfate-reducing bacteria. The contribution of acetate as electron donor for sulfate reduction in the ecosystem studied was found to be minor.
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- A I Qatibi
- INRA Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement des IAA, Narbonne, France
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