{"title":"Optimizing potential of consortium AKUC-1 for cresol bioremediation: A statistical approach complemented with AI-based prediction","authors":"Apurva Kadia, Urvish Chhaya","doi":"10.1016/j.biteb.2025.102342","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Biodegradation is an economically feasible, environmentally friendly, and sustainable method for removing organic pollutants from environmental matrices. This work explores the potential of consortium AKUC-1 for bioremediation of cresol isomer mixtures (ortho, meta-, and para-cresol). Microbiome profiling of the consortium revealed dominance of the phylum Firmicutes and the genus <em>Bacillus</em>. To identify key parameters and improve the degradation efficiency of cresol isomers, AKUC-1 was statistically optimized using Response Surface Methodology — Central Composite Design (RSM-CCD), with support from a machine learning tool, support vector machine (SVM). Analysis of Variance confirmed the accuracy of the RSM-CCD model, with a significant F-value of 56.76 and a <em>p</em>-value of less than 0.0001, indicating the model's robustness. Under optimal conditions, with 3.50 g L<sup>−1</sup> sucrose, 0.0075 g L<sup>−1</sup> FeCl<sub>3</sub>, and 0.0075 g L<sup>−1</sup> CaCl<sub>2</sub>, the consortium degraded 82.54 % of 600 ppm cresol isomers, which is 2.58 times higher than in unoptimized media.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8947,"journal":{"name":"Bioresource Technology Reports","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 102342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bioresource Technology Reports","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589014X25003251","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Environmental Science","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Biodegradation is an economically feasible, environmentally friendly, and sustainable method for removing organic pollutants from environmental matrices. This work explores the potential of consortium AKUC-1 for bioremediation of cresol isomer mixtures (ortho, meta-, and para-cresol). Microbiome profiling of the consortium revealed dominance of the phylum Firmicutes and the genus Bacillus. To identify key parameters and improve the degradation efficiency of cresol isomers, AKUC-1 was statistically optimized using Response Surface Methodology — Central Composite Design (RSM-CCD), with support from a machine learning tool, support vector machine (SVM). Analysis of Variance confirmed the accuracy of the RSM-CCD model, with a significant F-value of 56.76 and a p-value of less than 0.0001, indicating the model's robustness. Under optimal conditions, with 3.50 g L−1 sucrose, 0.0075 g L−1 FeCl3, and 0.0075 g L−1 CaCl2, the consortium degraded 82.54 % of 600 ppm cresol isomers, which is 2.58 times higher than in unoptimized media.
生物降解是一种经济可行、环境友好、可持续的去除环境基质中有机污染物的方法。这项工作探索了AKUC-1联盟在甲酚异构体混合物(邻甲酚、间甲酚和对甲酚)生物修复方面的潜力。该联合体的微生物组分析显示厚壁菌门和芽孢杆菌属的优势。为了确定关键参数并提高甲酚异构体的降解效率,在机器学习工具支持向量机(SVM)的支持下,利用响应面法-中心复合设计(RSM-CCD)对AKUC-1进行了统计优化。方差分析证实了RSM-CCD模型的准确性,f值为56.76,p值小于0.0001,表明模型具有稳健性。在最佳条件下,在3.50 g L−1蔗糖、0.0075 g L−1 FeCl3和0.0075 g L−1 CaCl2的条件下,该菌体对600 ppm甲酚异构体的降解率为82.54%,是未优化培养基的2.58倍。