Removal of heavy metals by an enriched consortium

Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-28

  Lee, Eun Young ^a   Lim, Joung Soo ^a   Oh, Kyung Hwan ^a   Lee, Jae Yeon ^a   Kim, Seog Ku ^b   Lee, Yoo Kyung ^c   Kim, Keun ^a  

^a Suwon University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology   (South Korea)

^c Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Enriched consortium; Ralstonia sp.; Removal of heavy metals

Indexed keywords

RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA SP.;

BACTERIAL DNA; HEAVY METAL; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 43249107533     PISSN: 12258873     EISSN: 12258873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12275-007-0131-6     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Akar, T. and S. Tunali. 2005. Biosorption performance of Botrytis cinerea fungal by-products for removal of Cd(II) and Cu(II) ions from aqueous solutions. Miner. Eng. 18, 1099-1109.
2. Bang, S.W., Y.K. Choi, and M.S. Han. 2001. Recent development of removal and treatment of toxic heavy metals by microorganisms. Korean J. Environ. Biol. 19, 93-99.
3. Chávez-Gómez, B., R. Quintero, F. Esparza-García, A.M. Mesta-Howard, F.J. Zavala Díaz De La Serna, C.H. Hernández-Rodríguez, T. Gillén, H.M. Poggi-Varaldo, J. Barrera-Cortés, and R. Rodríguez-Vázquez. 2003. Removal of phenanthrene from soil by co-cultures of bacteria and fungi pre-grown on sugarcane bagasse pith. Biores. Technol. 89, 177-183.
4. Cheng, M.H., J.W. Patterson, and R.A. Minear. 1975. Heavy metals uptake by activated sludge. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed. 47, 362-376.
5. Chun, J. 1995. Computer-assisted classification and identification of actinomycetes. Ph. D. thesis, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
6. Felsenstein, J. 1993. PHYLIP (Phylogeny inference package), version 3.5c. Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
7. Goyal, N., S.C. Jain, and U.C. Banerjee. 2003. Comparative studies on the microbial adsorption of heavy metals. Adv. Environ. Res. 7, 311-319.
8. Hawari, A.H. and C.N. Mulligan. 2006. Biosorption of lead(II), cadmium(II), copper(II), and nickel(II) by anaerobic granular biomass. Biores. Technol. 97, 692-700.
9. Huang, C.P., J.F. Kao, L.P. Hsieh, and S.S. Cheng. 1982. Effect of EDTA on Cadmium in activated sludge systems. J. Water Poll. Control Fed. 54, 1118-1126.
10. Iqbal, M. and R.G.J. Edyvean. 2004. Biosorption of lead, copper, and zinc ions on loofa sponge immobilized biomass of Phanerochaerte chryptosporium. Miner. Eng. 17, 217-223.
11. Ismail, K., A. Tamer, and T. Siebel. 2005. Biosorption of Pb(II) and Cu(II) from aqueous solutions by pretreated biomass of Neurospora crassa. Process Biochem. 40, 3550-3558.
12. Khummongkoi, D., G.S. Canterford, and C. Fryer. 1982. Accumulation of heavy metals in unicellular algae. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 24, 2643-2660.
13. Leahy, J.G., K.D. Tracy, and M.H. Eley. 2003. Degradation of mixtures of aromatic and chloroaliphatic hydrocarbons by aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 43, 271-276.
14. Maier, R.M., L.L. Pepper, and C.P. Gerba. 2000. Environmental microbiology. Academy Press, San Diego, USA.
15. Mann, H. 1990. Biosorption of heavy metals by bacterial biomass, p. 94-137. In B. Volesky (ed.), Biosorption of Heavy metals. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
16. Mergeay, M., S. Monchy, T. Vallaeys, V. Auquier, A. Benotmane, P. Bertin, S. Taghavi, J. Dunn, D. Van Der Lelie, and R. Wattiez. 2003. Ralstonia metallidurans, a bacterium specifically adapted to toxic metals: towards a catalogue of metal-responsive genes. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 27, 385-410.
17. Nelson, P.O., A.K. Chung, and M.C. Hudson. 1981. Factors affecting the fate of heavy metals in the activated sludge process. J. Wat. Poll. Control Fed. 53, 1323-1333.
18. Park, S.W. 1987. Specific chemical reactions at the cadmium sulfide-water interface. Ph. D. thesis, University of Delaware, USA.
19. Puranik, P.R. and K.M. Paknikar. 1999. Biosorption of lead, cadmium, and zinc by Citrobacter strain MCM B-181: characterization studies. Biotechnol. Prog. 15, 228-237.
20. Roane, T.M. and I.L. Pepper. 2000. Microorganisms and metal pollutants, p. 403-423. In R.M. Maier, I.L. Pepper, and C.P. Gerba (eds.), Environmental microbiology. Academic Press, San Diego, USA.
21. Roux, M. and J. Covés. 2002. The iron-containing superoxide dismutase of Ralstonia metallidurans CH34. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 210, 129-133.
22. Saitou, N. and M. Nei. 1987. The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evol. 4, 406-425.
23. Schiewer, S. and B. Volesky. 2000. Biosorption process for heavy metal removal, p. 329-362. In D. Lovley (ed.), Environmental microbe metal interactions. ASM Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
24. Takanashi, M. and T. Saito. 2006. Characterization of two 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenases in poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)-degradable bacterium, Ralstonia pickettii Tl. J. Biosci. Bioeng. 101, 501-507.
25. Thompson, J.D., D.G. Higgins, and T.J. Gibson. 1994. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 22, 4673-4680.
26. Veligio, F. and F. Beolchini. 1997. Removal of metals by biosorption: a review. Hydrometallurgy 44, 301-316.
27. Volesky, B. 1990. Removal and recovery of heavy metals by biosorption, p. 7-43. In B. Volesky (ed.), Biosorption of heavy metals. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
28. Volesky, B. 2001. Detoxification of metal bearing effluents: biosorption for the next century. Hydrometallurgy 59, 203-216.
29. Volesky, B. and Z.R. Holan. 1995. Biosorption of heavy metals. Rev. Biotechnol. Progress 11, 235-250.
30. Warren, L.A. and E.A. Haack. 2001. Biogeochemical controls on metal behaviour in freshwater environments. Earth Sci. Rev. 54, 261-320.