Molecular analysis of a sulphate-reducing consortium used to treat metal-containing effluents

BioMetals

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 601-609

  Boothman, C ^a   Hockin, S ^b   Holmes, D E ^c   Gadd, G M ^b   Lloyd, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA analysis; Biofilm; Desulfomicrobium sp.; Metal bioremediation; Molecular ecology; Sulphate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

DISULFITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DESULFOMICROBIUM; DESULFOMICROBIUM NORVEGICUM; EFFLUENT; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; METALS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES; SYMBIOSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DESULFOMICROBIUM NORVEGICUM; DESULFOMICROBIUM SP.;

EID: 33750612223     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10534-006-0006-z     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Bache R, Pfennig N. 1981 Selective isolation of Acetobacterium woodii on methylated aromatic acids and determination of growth yields. Arch Microbiol 130, 255-261.
2. Barnes LJ, Scheeren PJ, Buisman CJN. 1994 Microbial removal of heavy metals and sulfate from contaminated groundwaters. In: Means JL, Hinchee RE, eds. Emerging Technology for Bioremediation of Metals. Boca Raton, USA: Lewis Publisher; 38-49.
3. Chang Y-J, Peacock AD, Long PE, et al 2001 Diversity and Characterization of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Groundwater at a Uranium Mill Tailings Site. Appl Environ Microbiol 67, 3149-3160.
4. Dejonghe W, Berteloot E, Goris J, et al 2003 Synergistic Degradation of Linuron by a Bacterial Consortium and Isolation of a Single Linuron-Degrading Variovorax Strain. Appl Environ Microbiol 69, 1532-1541.
5. Drury WJ. 1999 Treatment of acid mine drainage with anaerobic solid-substrate reactors. Water Environ Res 71, 1244-1250.
6. Edwards U, Rogall T, Blocker H, Emde M, Bottger EC. 1989 Isolation and direct nucleotide determination of entire genes.Characterisation of a gene coding for 16S ribosomal RNA. Nucleic Acids Res 17, 7843-7853.
7. Hippe H, Vainshtein M, Gogotova GI, Stackebrandt E. 2003 Reclassification of Desulfobacterium macestii as Desulfomicrobium macestii comb. nov. J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1127-1130.
8. Hockin SL, Gadd GM. 2003 Linked Redox Precipitation of Sulfur and Selenium under Anaerobic Conditions by Sulfate-Reducing Bacterial Biofilms. Appl Environ Microbiol 69, 7063-7072.
9. Holt JG. 1994 Bergeys Manual of Determinative Bacteriology Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.
10. Islam F, Gault AG, Boothman C, et al 2004 Role of metalreducing bacteria in arsenic release from Bengal Delta sediments. Nature 430, 68-71.
11. Kolmert A, Johnson DB. 2001 Remediation of acidic waste waters using immobilised, acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria. J Chem Technol Biotechnol 76, 836-843.
12. Lloyd JR, Lovley DR, Macaskie LE. 2004 Biotechnological application of metal-reducing bacteria. Adv Appl Microbiol 53, 85-128.
13. Ranjard L, Poly F, Lata J, Mougel C, Thioulouse J, Nazaret S. 2001 Characterization of bacterial and fungal soil communities by automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis fingerprints: Biological and methodological variability. Appl Environ Microbiol 67, 4479-4487.
14. Rabus R, Fukui M, Wilkes H, Widdle F. 1996 Degradative capacities and 16S rRNA-targeted whole-cell hybridization of sulfate-reducing bacteria in an anaerobic enrichment culture utilizing alkylbenzenes from crude oil. Appl Environ Microbiol 62, 3605-3613.
15. Schnell S, Bak F, Pfennig N. 1989 Anaerobic degradation of aniline and dihydroxybenzenes by newly isolated sulphate-reducing bacteria and description of Desulfobacterium anilini. Arch Microbiol 152, 556-563.
16. Schulz S, Dong W, Groth U, Cook AM. 2000 Enantiomeric degradation of 2-(4-sulfophenyl)butyrate via 4-sulfocatechol in Delftia acidovorans SPB1. Appl Environ Microbiol 66, 1905-1910.
17. Terzenbach DP, Blaut M. 1994 Transformation of tetrachloroethylene to trichlororethylene by homoacetogenic bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Lett 123, 213-218.
18. Wagner M, Roger AJ, Flax JL, Brusseau GA, Stahl D. 1998 Phylogeny of dissimilatory sulfite reductases supports an early origin of sulfate respiration. J Bacteriol 180, 2975-2982.
19. White C, Gadd GM. 1996 A comparison of carbon/energy and complex nitrogen sources for bacterial sulphate reduction: potential applications to bioprecipitation of toxic metals as sulphides. J Indust Microbiol Biotechnol 17, 116-123.
20. White C, Gadd GM. 1996 Mixed sulphate-reducing bacterial cultures for bioprecipitation of toxic metals: factorial and response-surface analysis of the effects of dilution rate, sulphate and substrate concentration. Microbiol 142, 2197-2205.
21. White C, Gadd GM. (1998). Reduction of metal cations and oxyanions by anaerobic and metal-resistant microorganisms: chemistry, physiology and potential for the control and bioremediation of toxic metal pollution. In: Horikoshi K, Grant WD, eds. Extremophiles: Physiology and Biotechnology. New York: John Wiley and Sons; 233-254.
22. White C, Gadd GM. 2000 Copper accumulation by sulphate-reducing bacterial biofilms and effects on growth. FEMS Microbiol Lett 183, 313-318.
23. White C, Sharman AK, Gadd GM. 1998 An integrated microbial process for the bioremediation of soil contaminated with toxic metals. Nature Biotechnol 16, 572-575.
24. White C, Dennis JS, Gadd GM. 2003 A mathematical process model for cadmium precipitation by sulfate-reducing bacterial biofilms. Biodegrad 14, 139-151.
25. Widdel F, Pfennig N. 1981 Studies on dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria that decompose fatty acids. 1. Isolation of new sulfate-reducing bacteria enriched with acetate from saline environments - description of Desulfobacter postgatei gen. nov., sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 129, 395-400.