BiodegradationPub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10060-3
Jacineumo Falcão de Oliveira, Ronaldo Fia, Ana Flavia Santos Rabelo de Melo, Fátima Resende Luiz Fia, Fernando Neris Rodrigues, Luciene Alves Batista Siniscalchi, Mateus Pimentel de Matos
{"title":"Organic stabilization and methane production under different organic loading rates in UASB treating swine wastewater","authors":"Jacineumo Falcão de Oliveira, Ronaldo Fia, Ana Flavia Santos Rabelo de Melo, Fátima Resende Luiz Fia, Fernando Neris Rodrigues, Luciene Alves Batista Siniscalchi, Mateus Pimentel de Matos","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10060-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10060-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study proposes the was to evaluate the stability and methane production with organic load differents in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor (UASB) treating swine wastewater by methods of multivariate analysis. Four organic loads were used with average hydraulic holding times of one day. The methods of data analysis of linear regression, Pearson correlation, principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis were used for understanding stability and methane production in the reactor. The highest concentrations of bicarbonate alkalinity of 683 mg L<sup>−1</sup> CaCO<sub>3</sub> and total volatile acids of 1418 mg L<sup>−1</sup> HAc with maximum organic loading applied were obtained. The optimal stability conditions occurred at an intermediate and partial alkalinity ratio between 0.24 and 0.25 observed in initial phases with a chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal of 47–57%. Maximum methane production was 9.0 L CH<sub>4</sub> d<sup>−1</sup> observed with linear regression positive and occurred at the highest applied organic load, corresponding to the highest COD removal efficiency and increased microbial biomass. Positive and negative correlation between functional stability in anaerobic digestion showed regular activity between acids, alkalinity and organic matter removal. This fact was also proven by the analysis of principal components that showed three components responsible for explaining 83.2% of the data variability, and the alkalinity, organic matter influent and organic acids had the greatest effects on the stability of the UASB reactor. Hierarchical clusters detected the formation of five groupings with a similarity of 50.1%, indicating that temperature and pH were variables with unitary influences on data dimensionality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 4","pages":"389 - 405"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"107589912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiodegradationPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10061-2
Shilpa, Nitai Basak, Sumer Singh Meena
{"title":"Biodegradation of low-density polythene (LDPE) by a novel strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa WD4 isolated from plastic dumpsite","authors":"Shilpa, Nitai Basak, Sumer Singh Meena","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10061-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10061-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study was proposed with the idea to screen and isolate efficient low-density polyethylene (LDPE) degrading novel bacterial strains from the plastic-contaminated dumping site. The identification of the bacterial isolate was performed with the help of microbiological and molecular characterization approaches. The screening of the best isolate was performed based on its growth in Bushnell-Hass broth supplemented with LDPE sheets as the sole carbon source. The molecular characterization revealed that the isolate WD4 showed a similarity with the <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> species. A comparative analysis of <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> WD4 identified in the current study with <i>Pseudomonas putida</i> MTCC 2445 strain was performed. The present study demonstrated that the bacterial isolate showed 9.2% degradation of LDPE films while <i>Pseudomonas putida</i> revealed a 6.5% weight reduction after 100 days of incubation at 37 °C. The end products of the LDPE degradation were analysed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The LDPE degradation products eluted include fatty acids such as octadecanoic, hexadecanoic acid, dodecanal, and octyl palmitoleate, alkanes, and some of the unknown compounds after 100 days of microbial treatment with the isolated strain. The detailed analysis of the by-products generated in the current study indicates their contribution to the biochemical pathway of LDPE degradation. The profound scope lies in the scalability of these bacterial strains at the industrial level to combat the LDPE waste and similar plastic garbage problems, globally.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 5","pages":"641 - 655"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71476605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiodegradationPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10058-x
Ermias Gebrekrstos Tesfamariam, Yi-Hao Luo, Chen Zhou, Ming Ye, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Bruce E. Rittmann, Youneng Tang
{"title":"Simultaneous biodegradation kinetics of 1,4-dioxane and ethane","authors":"Ermias Gebrekrstos Tesfamariam, Yi-Hao Luo, Chen Zhou, Ming Ye, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Bruce E. Rittmann, Youneng Tang","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10058-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10058-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Biodegradation of 1,4-Dioxane at environmentally relevant concentrations usually requires the addition of a primary electron-donor substrate to sustain biomass growth. Ethane is a promising substrate, since it is available as a degradation product of 1,4-Dioxane’s common co-contaminants. This study reports kinetic parameters for ethane biodegradation and co-oxidations of ethane and 1,4-Dioxane. Based on experiments combined with mathematical modeling, we found that ethane promoted 1,4-Dioxane biodegradation when the initial mass ratio of ethane:1,4-Dioxane was < 9:1 mg COD/mg COD, while it inhibited 1,4-Dioxane degradation when the ratio was > 9:1. A model-independent estimator was used for kinetic-parameter estimation, and all parameter values for 1,4-Dioxane were consistent with literature-reported ranges. Estimated parameters support competitive inhibition between ethane as the primary substrate and 1,4-Dioxane as the secondary substrate. The results also support that bacteria that co-oxidize ethane and 1,4-Dioxane had a competitive advantage over bacteria that can use only one of the two substrates. The minimum concentration of ethane to sustain ethane-oxidizing bacteria and ethane and 1,4-Dioxane-co-oxidizing bacteria was 0.09 mg COD/L, which is approximately 20-fold lower than the minimum concentration reported for propane, another common substrate used to promote 1,4-Dioxane biodegradation. The minimum 1,4-Dioxane concentration required to sustain steady-state biomass with 1,4-Dioxane as the sole primary substrate was 1.3 mg COD/L. As 1,4-Dioxane concentrations at most groundwater sites are less than 0.18 mg COD/L, providing ethane as a primary substrate is vital to support biomass growth and consequently enable 1,4-Dioxane bioremediation.</p><h3>Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000<div><figure><div><div><picture><source><img></source></picture></div></div></figure></div></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 4","pages":"371 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71419433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiodegradationPub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10057-y
Fei Dou, Yundang Wu, Jibing Li, Chuanping Liu
{"title":"Differences among active toluene-degrading microbial communities in farmland soils with different levels of heavy metal pollution","authors":"Fei Dou, Yundang Wu, Jibing Li, Chuanping Liu","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10057-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10057-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Heavy metals can severely influence the mineralisation of organic pollutants in a compound-polluted environment. However, to date, no study has focused on the effects of heavy metals on the active organic pollutant-degrading microbial communities to understand the bioremediation mechanism. In this study, toluene was used as the model organic pollutant to explore the effects of soils with different levels of heavy metal pollution on organic contaminant degradation in the same area via stable isotope probing (SIP) and 16 S rRNA high-throughput sequencing. Heavy metals can seriously affect toluene biodegradation and regulate the abundance and diversity of microbial communities. SIP revealed a drastic difference in the community structure of active toluene degraders between the unpolluted and heavy metal-polluted soils. All SIP-identified degraders were assigned to nine bacterial classes, among which Alphaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, and Bacilli were shared by both treatments. Among all active degraders, <i>Nitrospira</i>, <i>Nocardioides</i>, <i>Conexibacteraceae</i>, and <i>Singulisphaera</i> were linked to toluene biodegradation for the first time. Notably, the type of active degrader and microbial diversity were strongly related to biodegradation efficiency, indicating their key role in toluene biodegradation. Overall, heavy metals can affect the microbial diversity and alter the functional microbial communities in soil, thereby influencing the removal efficiency of organic contaminants. Our findings provide novel insights into the biodegradation mechanism of organic pollutants in heavy metal-polluted soils and highlight the biodiversity of microbes involved in toluene biodegradation in compound-polluted environments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41231379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Degradation of multiple PAHs and co-contaminants by microbial consortia and their toxicity assessment","authors":"Arfin Imam, Sunil Kumar Suman, Sonpal Vasavdutta, Shruti Chatterjee, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu, Anjan Ray, Pankaj K. Kanaujia","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10055-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10055-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The anthropogenic activities toward meeting the energy requirements have resulted in an alarming rise in environmental pollution levels. Among pollutants, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most predominant due to their persistent and toxic nature. Amidst the several pollutants depuration methods, bioremediation utilizing biodegradation is the most viable alternative. This study investigated the biodegradation efficacy using developed microbial consortium PBR-21 for 2–4 ringed PAHs named naphthalene (NAP), anthracene (ANT), fluorene (FLU), and pyrene (PYR). The removal efficiency was observed up to 100 ± 0.0%, 70.26 ± 4.2%, 64.23 ± 2.3%, and 61.50 ± 2.6%, respectively, for initial concentrations of 400 mg L<sup>−1</sup> for NAP, ANT, FLU, and PYR respectively. Degradation followed first-order kinetics with rate constants of 0.39 d<sup>−1</sup>, 0.10 d<sup>−1</sup>, 0.08 d<sup>−1</sup>, and 0.07 d<sup>−1</sup> and half-life <span>(left({t}_{1/2}right))</span> of 1.8 h, 7.2 h, 8.5 h, and 10 h, respectively. The microbial consortia were found to be efficient towards the co-contaminants with 1 mM concentration. Toxicity examination indicated that microbial-treated PAHs resulted in lesser toxicity in aquatic crustaceans (<i>Artemia salina</i>) than untreated PAHs. Also, the study suggests that indigenous microbial consortia PBR-21 has the potential to be used in the bioremediation of PAH-contaminated environment.</p><h3>Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000<div><figure><div><div><picture><source><img></source></picture></div></div></figure></div></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41104203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiodegradationPub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10054-1
Reza Rezaei, Ali Ahmad Aghapour, Hassan Khorsandi
{"title":"Correction: Investigating the biological degradation of the drug β-blocker atenolol from wastewater using the SBR","authors":"Reza Rezaei, Ali Ahmad Aghapour, Hassan Khorsandi","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10054-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10054-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 1","pages":"115 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10258222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioaugmentation: an approach to biological treatment of pollutants","authors":"Dixita Chettri, Ashwani Kumar Verma, Anil Kumar Verma","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10050-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10050-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Industrial development and the associated generation of waste requires attention for their management, treatment, and reduction without further degrading the quality of life. Microbes and plant-based bioremediation approaches are some of the sustainable strategies for the biodegradation of harmful pollutants instead of chemical-based treatment. Bioaugmentation is one such approach where microbial strains with the ability to degrade the targeted pollutant are introduced in a polluted environment. Harnessing of microbes from various locations, especially from the site of contamination (indigenous microbes), followed by optimization of the strains, inoculum size, media, and genetic engineering of the microbes along with a combination of strategies such as bio stimulation, phytoremediation is being applied to increase the efficiency of bioaugmentation. Further, bioaugmentation is influenced by various factors such as temperature, the composition of the pollutant, and microbial inoculum which needs to be considered for maximum efficiency of the treatment process. It has numerous advantages such as low cost, sustainability, and easy handling of the contaminants however, the major limitation of bioaugmentation is to increase the survival rate of the microbes involved in remediation for a longer duration in such a highly toxic environment. The review discusses these various aspects of bioaugmentation in brief for its large-scale implementation to address the global issue of pollution and environment management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10190940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiodegradationPub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10048-z
Ruth Amanna, Sudip K. Rakshit
{"title":"Review of nomenclature and methods of analysis of polyethylene terephthalic acid hydrolyzing enzymes activity","authors":"Ruth Amanna, Sudip K. Rakshit","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10048-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10048-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Enzymatic degradation of polyethylene terephthalic acid (PET) has been gaining increasing importance. This has resulted in a significant increase in the search for newer enzymes and the development of more efficient enzyme-based systems. Due to the lack of a standard screening process, screening new enzymes has relied on other assays to determine the presence of esterase activity. This, in turn, has led to various nomenclatures and methods used to describe them and measure their activity. Since all PET-hydrolyzing enzymes are α/β hydrolases, they catalyze a serine nucleophilic attack and cleave an ester bond. They are lipases, esterases, cutinases and hydrolases. This has been used interchangeably, leading to difficulties while comparing results and evaluating progress. This review discusses the varied enzyme nomenclature being adapted, the different assays and analysis methods reported, and the strategies used to increase PET-hydrolyzing enzyme efficiency. A section on the various ways to quantify PET hydrolysis is also covered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 4","pages":"341 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10188202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiodegradationPub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10052-3
Anusree Nalladiyil, P. Sughosh, G. L. Sivakumar Babu, Sreenivasan Ramaswami
{"title":"Landfill leachate treatment using fungi and fungal enzymes: a review","authors":"Anusree Nalladiyil, P. Sughosh, G. L. Sivakumar Babu, Sreenivasan Ramaswami","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10052-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10052-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Landfill leachate raises a huge risk to human health and the environment as it contains a high concentration of organic and inorganic contaminants, heavy metals, ammonia, and refractory substances. Among leachate treatment techniques, the biological methods are more environmentally benign and less expensive than the physical–chemical treatment methods. Over the last few years, fungal-based treatment processes have become popular due to their ability to produce powerful oxidative enzymes like peroxidases and laccases. Fungi have shown better removal efficiency in terms of color, ammonia, and COD. However, their use in the treatment of leachate is relatively recent and still needs to be investigated. This review article assesses the potential of fungi and fungal-derived enzymes in treating landfill leachate. The review also compares different enzymes involved in the fungal catabolism of organic pollutants and the enzyme degradation mechanisms. The effect of parameters like pH, temperature, contact time, dosage variation, heavy metals and ammonia are discussed. The paper also explores the reactor configuration used in the fungal treatment and the techniques used to improve leachate treatment efficacy, like pretreatment and fungi immobilisation. Finally, the review summarises the limitations and the future direction of work required to adapt the fungal application for leachate treatment on a large scale.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10181128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiodegradationPub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10053-2
Somanjana Khatua, Jesus Simal-Gandara, Krishnendu Acharya
{"title":"Myco-remediation of plastic pollution: current knowledge and future prospects","authors":"Somanjana Khatua, Jesus Simal-Gandara, Krishnendu Acharya","doi":"10.1007/s10532-023-10053-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10532-023-10053-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To date, enumerable fungi have been reported to participate in the biodegradation of several notorious plastic materials following their isolation from soil of plastic-dumping sites, marine water, waste of mulch films, landfills, plant parts and gut of wax moth. The general mechanism begins with formation of hydrophobin and biofilm proceding to secretion of specific plastic degarding enzymes (peroxidase, hydrolase, protease and urease), penetration of three dimensional substrates and mineralization of plastic polymers into harmless products. As a result, several synthetic polymers including polyethylene, polystyrene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyurethane and/or bio-degradable plastics have been validated to deteriorate within months through the action of a wide variety of fungal strains predominantly Ascomycota (<i>Alternaria</i>, <i>Aspergillus</i>, <i>Cladosporium</i>, <i>Fusarium</i>, <i>Penicillium</i> spp.). Understanding the potential and mode of operation of these organisms is thus of prime importance inspiring us to furnish an up to date view on all the presently known fungal strains claimed to mitigate the plastic waste problem. Future research henceforth needs to be directed towards metagenomic approach to distinguish polymer degrading microbial diversity followed by bio-augmentation to build fascinating future of waste disposal.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":486,"journal":{"name":"Biodegradation","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10950981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10144584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}