Arsenic detoxification potential of aox genes in arsenite-oxidizing bacteria isolated from natural and constructed wetlands in the Republic of Korea

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-105

  Chang, Jin Soo ^a,b   Yoon, In Ho ^a,c   Lee, Ji Hoon ^a,d   Kim, Ki Rak ^a   An, Jeongyi ^a   Kim, Kyoung Woong ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Yianbian University of Science and Technology (YUST)   (China)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic detoxification; Arsenic resistance system; Arsenite oxidase genes (aox); Damyang constructed wetlands; Pseudomonas sp.; Woopo natural

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENITE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DETOXIFICATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENETICS; REDUCTION; RNA;

KOREA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER SP.; AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS SP.; AGROBACTERIUM SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COMAMONAS; COMAMONAS SP.; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER SP.; PANTOEA; PANTOEA SP.; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RHIZOBIUM;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; COMAMONAS; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; ENTEROBACTER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PANTOEA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RHIZOBIUM; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOUTH KOREA; WETLAND;

ACINETOBACTER; ARSENIC; ARSENITES; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COMAMONAS; ENTEROBACTER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PANTOEA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 77951647772     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-009-9268-z     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Ahmann, D. A., Roberts, L., Krumholz, L. R., & Morel, F. M. M. (1994). Microbe grows by reducing arsenic. Nature, 371, 750. doi: 10. 1038/371750a0.
2. Alewell, C., Paul, S., Lischid, G., Ku{double acute}sel, K., & Gehre, M. (2006). Characterizing the redox status in three different forested wetlands with geochemical data. Environmental Science and Technology, 40, 7609-7615. doi: 10. 1021/es061018y.
3. Altschul, S. F., Madden, T. L., Schaffer, A. A., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Miller, W., et al. (1997). Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Research, 25, 3389-3402. doi: 10. 1093/nar/25. 17. 3389.
4. Barbieri, P., Galassi, G., & Galli, E. (1989). Plasmid-encoded mercury resistance in a Pseudomonas stutzeri strain that degrades o-xylene. EFMS Microbiology Ecology, 62, 375-384. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1574-6968. 1989. tb03393. x.
5. Batty, L. C., Atkin, L., & Manning, D. A. C. (2005). Assessment of the ecological potential of mine-water treatment wetlands using a baseline survey of macroinvertebrate communities. Environmental Pollution, 138, 412-419. doi: 10. 1016/j. envpol. 2005. 04. 022.
6. Batty, L. C., Baker, A. J. M., & Wheeler, B. D. (2006). The effect of vegetation on porewater composition in a natural wetlands receiving acid mine drainage. Wetlands, 6, 40-48. doi: 10. 1672/0277-5212(2006)26[40: TEOVOP]2. 0. CO; 2.
7. Bhumbia, D. K., & Keefer, R. F. (1994). Arsenic mobilization and bioavailability in soils. In J. O. Nriagu (Ed.), Arsenic in the environment (pp. 51-82). New York: Wiley.
8. Burke, M. E., Gorham, E., & Pratt, D. C. (1974). Distribution of purple photosynthetic bacteria in wetlands and woodland habitats of central and northern Minnesota. Journal of Bacteriology, 117, 826-833.
9. Carbonell, A. A., Aarabi, M. A., DeLaune, R. D., Gambrell, R. P., & Patrick, W. H., Jr. (1998). Arsenic in wetland vegetation: availability, phytotoxicity, uptake and effects on plant growth and nutrition. The Science of the Total Environment, 217, 189-199. doi: 10. 1016/S0048-9697(98)00195-8.
10. Cervantes, C., Ji, G., Ramirez, J. L., & Silver, S. (1994). Resistance to arsenic compounds in microorganisms. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 15, 355-367. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1574-6976. 1994. tb00145. x.
11. Chang, Y. H., Han, J. I., Chun, J. S., Lee, K. C., Rhee, M. S., Kim, Y. B., et al. (2002). Comamonas koreensis sp. nov., a non-motile species from wetlands in Woopo, Korea. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 52, 377-381.
12. Chang, J. S., Kim, Y.-H., & Kim, K. W. (2008). The ars genotype characterization of arsenic-resistant bacteria from arsenic-contaminated gold-silver mines in the Republic of Korea. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 80, 155-165. doi: 10. 1007/s00253-008-1524-0.
13. Chang, J. S., Yoon, I. H., & Kim, K. W. (2007). Isolation and ars detoxification of arsenic-oxidizing bacteria from abandoned arsenic-contaminated mines. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 17, 812-821.
14. D'Angelo, E. M., & Reddy, K. R. (1999). Regulators of heterotrophic microbial potentials in wetlands soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 31, 815-830.
15. Dedysh, S. N., Panikov, N. S., Liesack, W., Grobokpf, R., Zhou, J., & Tiedje, J. M. (1998). Isolation of acidophilic methane-oxidizing bacteria from northern peat wetlands. Science, 282, 281-284.
16. Dunne, E. J., Reddy, R., & Clark, M. W. (2006). Biogeochemical indices of phosphorus retention and release by wetlands soils and adjacent stream sediments. Wetlands, 26, 1026-1041.
17. Hallberg, K. B., & Johnson, D. B. (2005). Microbiology of a wetlands ecosystem constructed to remediate mine drainage from a heavy metal mine. Science of the Total Environment, 338, 53-66.
18. Ibrahim, F., Halttunen, T., Tahvonen, R., & Salminen, S. (2006). Probiotic bacteria as potential detoxification tools: assessing their heavy metal binding isotherms. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 52, 877-885.
19. Jackson, C. R., Langner, H. W., Donahoe-Christiansen, J., Inskeep, W. P., & McDermott, T. R. (2001). Molecular analysis of microbial community structure in an arsenite-oxidizing acidic thermal spring. Environmental Microbiology, 3, 532-542.
20. Ji, G., & Silver, S. (1992a). Regulation and expression of the arsenic resistance operon from Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pl258. Journal of Bacteriology, 174, 3684-3694.
21. Ji, G., & Silver, S. (1992b). Reduction of arsenate to arsenite by the ArsC protein of the arsenic resistance operon of Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pl258. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 89, 9474-9478.
22. Kashyap, D. P., Botero, L. M., Franck, W. L., Hassett, D. J., & McDermott, T. R. (2006). Complex regulation of arsenite oxidation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Journal of Bacteriology, 188, 1081-1088.
23. Le, X. C., Yalcin, S., & Ma, M. (2000). Speciation of submicrogram per liter levels of arsenic in water: on site species separation integrated with sample collection. Environmental Science and Technology, 34, 2342-2347.
24. Lee, S. J., Lee, S. C., Choi, S. H., Chung, M. K., Rhie, H. G., & Lee, H. S. (2001). Effect of ArsA, Arsenite-specific ATPase, on inhibition of cell division in Escherichia coli. Journal of Microbiology Biotechnology, 11, 825-830.
25. Lee, Y. J., Romanek, C. S., Mills, G. L., Davis, R. C., Whitman, W. B., & Wiegel, J. G. (2006). Gracilibacter thermotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermotolerant bacterium from a constructed wetlands receiving acid sulfate water. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutional Microbiology, 56, 2089-2093.
26. Li, J., & Gu, J. D. (2007). Complete degradation of dimethyl isophthalate requires the biochemical cooperation between Klebsiella oxytoca Sc and Methylobacterium mesophilicum Sr isolated from wetlands sediment. Science of the Total Environment, 380, 181-187.
27. Mitchell, L. K., & Karathanasis, A. D. (1995). Treatment of metal-chloride-enriched wastewater by simulate constructed wetlands. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 17, 119-126.
28. Mukhopadhyay, R., Rosen, B. P., Phung, L. T., & Silver, S. (2002). Microbial arsenic: from geocycles to genes and enzymes. FEMS Microbiology Review, 26, 311-325.
29. Muller, D., Liévremont, D., Simeonova, D. D., Hubert, J.-C., & Lett, M.-C. (2003). Arsenite oxidase aox genes from a metal-resistant β-proteobacterium. Journal of Bacteriology, 185, 135-141.
30. Oremland, R. S., Kulp, T. R., Switzer, B. J., Hoeft, S. E., Baesman, S., Milluer, L. G., et al. (2005). A microbial arsenic cycle in a salt-saturated extreme environment. Science, 308, 1305-1308.
31. Oremland, R. S., & Stolz, J. F. (2003). The ecology of arsenic. Science, 300, 939-944.
32. Oremland, R. S., Tolz, J. F., & Hollibaugh, J. T. (2004). The microbial arsenic cycle in MonoLake, California. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 48, 15-27.
33. Park, N. O., Kim, J. H., & Cho, J. W. (2008). Organic matter, anion and metal wastewater treatment in Damyang surface-flow constructed wetlands in Korea. Ecological Engineering, 32, 68-71.
34. Sambrook, J., & Russel, D. W. (2001). Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual (3rd edn.). Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
35. Santini, J. M., Sly, L. I., Schnagl, R. D., & Macy, J. M. (2000). A new chemolithotrophic arsenite-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a goldmine: phylogenetic, physiological and preliminary biochemical studies. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66, 92-97.
36. Silver, S., & Phung, L. T. (2005). Genes and enzymes involved in bacterial oxidation and reduction of inorganic arsenic. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, 599-608.
37. Sima, J., Diáková, K., & Holcová, V. (2007). Redox processes of sulfur and manganese in a constructed wetlands. Chemistry & Biodiversity, 4, 2900-2912.
38. Ure, A. M. (1995). Methods of analysis for heavy metals in soils. In B. J. Alloway (Ed.), Heavy metals in soils (pp. 55-68). London: Glasgow.
39. Vymazal, J., Švehla, J., Kröpfelová, L., & Chrastný, V. (2007). Trace metals in Ragmites australis and Phalaris arundinacea growing in constructed and natural wetlands. Science of the Total Environment, 380, 154-162.
40. Wang, J. P., Qi, L., Moore, M. R., & Ng, J. C. (2002). A review of animal models for the study of arsenic carcinogenesis. Toxicology Letters, 133, 17-31.
41. Webb, J. S., McGinness, S., & Lappin-Scott, H. M. (1998). Metal removal by sulphate- reducing bacteria from natural and constructed wetlands. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 84, 240-248.
42. Weber, K. A., Urrutia, M. M., Churchill, P. F., Kukkadapu, R. K., & Roden, E. E. (2006). Anaerobic redox cycling of iron freshwater sediment microorganisms. Environmental Microbiology, 8, 100-113.
43. Weiss, J. V., Emerson, D., & Patrick Megonigal, L. (2004). Geochemical control of microbial Fe(III) reduction potential in wetlands: comparison of the rhizosphere to non-rhizosphere soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 48, 89-100.
44. White, A. K., & Metcalf, W. W. (2004). Two C-P lyase operons in Pseudomonas stutzeri and their roles in the oxidation of phosphonates, phosphite, and hypophosphite. Journal of Bacteriology, 186, 4730-4739.
45. Yoon, I. H., Chang, J. S., Lee, J. H., & Kim, K. W. (2008). Arsenite oxidation by Alcaligenes sp. strain RS-19 isolated from arsenic-contaminated mine area in South Korea. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 31(10), 9-117.
46. Zedler, J. B., & Kercher, S. (2005). Wetlands resources: status, trends, ecosystem services, and restorability. Annual Review Environment and Resources, 30, 39-74.