A chromosomally based luminescent bioassay for mercury detection in red soil of China

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 981-989

  Xian Gui, Lin ^a   Wei, He ^a,b   Cheng, Han ^b   Ting, Mao ^b   Wen Hui, Zhong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biosensor; EGFP; Mercury; Red soil

Indexed keywords

ADAPTABLE SYSTEM; DETECTION RANGE; EGFP; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; INDUCIBLE PROMOTER; LUMINESCENCE SPECTROMETERS; MERCURY; MERCURY DETECTION; NANOMOLAR LEVELS; OPTIMAL TEMPERATURE; ORGANIC MATTER; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA STRAIN; RED SOILS; REGULATORY GENES; REPORTER GENE; RESIDUAL FRACTION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SOIL EXTRACTION; SOIL SAMPLE; WATERSOLUBLE;

BARIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOSENSORS; LEAD; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUMINESCENCE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MERCURY (METAL); METAL DETECTORS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TIN; TOXICITY; ZINC;

SOILS;

BARIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; SILVER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TIN; ZINC; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RED SOIL; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHINA; CHROMOSOME; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE CASSETTE; INCUBATION TIME; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RED SOIL; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPIKE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; EVALUATION STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MERCURY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

CHINA;

PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 77955663017     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2548-9     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Applegate BM, Kehrmeyer SR, Sayler GS (1998) A chromosomally based tod-luxCDABE whole-cell reporter for benzene, toluene, ethybenzene, and xylene (BTEX) sensing. Appl Environ Micro-biol 64:2730-2735
2. Baird GS, Zacharias DA, Tsien RY (2000) Biochemistry, mutagenesis, and oligomerization of DsRed, a red fluorescent protein from coral. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:11984-11989
3. Bakhtiari MR, Faezi MG, Fallahpour M, Noohi A, Moazami N, Amidi Z (2006) Medium optimization by orthogonal array designs for urease production by Aspergillus niger PTCC5011. Process Biochem 41:547-551
4. Barkay T, Gillman M, Turner RR (1997) Effects of dissolved organic carbon and salinity on bioavailability of mercury. Appl Environ Microbiol 63:4267-4271
5. Barkay T, Turner RR, Rasmussen LD, Kelly CA, Rudd JW (1998) Luminescence facilitated detection of bioavailable mercury in natural waters. Methods Mol Biol 102:231-246
6. BontideanI,MortariA,LethS,BrownNL,KarlsonU,LarsenMM, Vangronsveld J, Corbisier P, Csoregi E (2004) Biosensors for detection of mercury in contaminated soils. Environ Pollut 131:255-262
7. Cairns WRL, Ranaldo M, Hennebelle R, Turetta C, Capodaglio G, Ferrari CF, Dommergue A, Cescon P, Barbante C (2008) Speciation analysis of mercury in seawater from the lagoon of Venice by on-line pre-concentration HPLC-ICP-MS. Anal Chim Acta 622:62-69
8. Capelo JL, Rivas GM, Oliveira LG, Vilhena C, Santos AC, Valada T, Galesio M, Oliveira P, da Silva MDRG, Gaspar EM, Alves S, Fernandez C, Vaz C (2006) Mercury determination by FI-CV-AAS after the degradation of organomercurials with the aid of an ultrasonic field: the important role of the hypochlorite ion. Talanta 68:813-818
9. Chakraborty T, Babu PG, Alam A, Chaudhari A (2008) GFP expressing bacterial biosensor to measure lead contamination in aquatic environment. Curr Sci 94:800-805
10. Chen W, Bruhlmann F, Richins RD, Mulchandani A (1999) Engineering of improved microbes and enzymes for bioremediation. Curr Opin Biotechnol 10:137-141
11. Chen WY, Wang YC, Kuo MS (2002) Determination of total mercury and methylmercury in human hair by graphite-furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry using 2, 3-dimercaptopropane-1- sulfonate as a complexing agent. Anal Sci 18:255-260
12. Cormack BP, Valdivia RH, Falkow S (1996) FACS-optimized mutants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Gene 173:33-38
13. Endo G, Yamagata T, Narita M, Huang CC (2003) Bioluminescence biosensor for the detection of organomercury contamination. Acta Biotechnol 23:123-129
14. Fu YJ, Chen WL, Huang QY (2008) Construction of two lux-tagged Hg2+-specific biosensors and their luminescence performance. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 79:363-370
15. Geng W, Nakajima T, Takanashi H, Ohki A (2008) Determination of mercury in ash and soil samples by oxygen flask combustion method - cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry (CVAFS). J Hazard Mater 154:325-330
16. Hakkila K, Maksimow M, Karp M, Virta M (2002) Reporter genes lucFF, luxCDABE, gfp, and dsred have different characteristics in whole-cell bacterial sensors. Anal Biochem 301:235-242
17. Hansen LH, Sorensen SJ (2000) Versatile biosensor vectors for detection and quantification of mercury. FEMS Microbiol Lett 193:123-127
18. Hansen LH, Sorensen SJ, Jensen LB (1997) Chromosomal insertion of the entire Escherichia coli lactose operon, into two strains of Pseudomonas, using a modified mini-Tn5 delivery system. Gene 186:167-173
19. Harkins M, Porter AJ, Paton GI (2004) The role of host organism, transcriptional switches and reporter mechanisms in the performance of Hg-induced biosensors. J Appl Microbiol 97:1192-1200
20. Herrero M, de Lorenzo V, Timmis KN (1990) Transposon vectors containing non-antibiotic resistance selection markers for cloning and stable chromosomal insertion of foreign genes in gramnegative bacteria. J Bacteriol 172:6557-6567
21. Hu Q, Yang G, Yin J, Yao Y (2002) Determination of trace lead, cadmium and mercury by on-line column enrichment followed by RP-HPLC as metal-tetra-(4-bromophenyl)-porphyrin chelates. Talanta 57:751-756
22. Ivask A, Virta M, Kahru A (2002) Construction and use of specific luminescent recombinant bacterial sensors for the assessment of bioavailable fraction of cadmium, zinc, mercury and chromium in the soil. Soil Biol Biochem 34:1439-1447
23. Leopold K, Harwardt L, Schuster M, Schlemmer G (2008) A new fully automated on-line digestion system for ultra trace analysis of mercury in natural waters by means of FI-CV-AFS. Talanta 76:382-388
24. Logar M, Horvat M, Falnoga I, Stibilj V (2000) A methodological study of mercury speciation using Dogfish liver CRM (DOLT-2). Fresenius J Anal Chem 366:453-460
25. Ma YB, Uren NC (1998) Transformations of heavy metals added to soil-application of a new sequential extraction procedure [J]. Geoderma 84(1-3):157-168
26. Margetinova J, Houserova-Pelcova P, Kuban V (2008) Speciation analysis of mercury in sediments, zoobenthos and river water samples by high-performance liquid chromatography hyphenated to atomic fluorescence spectrometry following preconcentration by solid phase extraction. Anal Chim Acta 615: 115-123
27. Miller JH, Shinaberger JH, et al. (1972) "Experience with a new plate type dialyzer." Proc Clin Dial Transplant Forum 2:50-51
28. Nagashima K, Murata T, Kurihara K (2002) Pretreatment of water samples using UV irradiation-peroxodisulfate for the determination of total mercury. Anal Chim Acta 454:271-275
29. Omura T, Kiyono M, Pan-Hou H (2004) Development of a specific and sensitive bacteria sensor for detection of mercury at picomolar levels in environment. J Health Sci 50:379-383
30. Petanen U, Romantschuk M (2002) Use of bioluminescent bacterial sensors as an alternative method for measuring heavy metals in soil extracts. Anal Chim Acta 456:55-61
31. Petanen T, Virta M, Karp M, Romantschuk M (2001) Construction and use of broad host range mercury and arsenite sensor plasmids in the soil bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens OS8. Microb Ecol 41:360-368
32. Roberto FF, Barnes JM, Bruhn DF (2002) Evaluation of a GFP reporter gene construct for environmental arsenic detection. Talanta 58:181-188
33. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T (1989) Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor
34. Selifonova O, Burlage R, Barkay T (1993) Bioluminescent sensors for detection of bioavailable Hg(II) in the environment. Appl Environ Microbiol 59:3083-3090
35. Tirtom VN, Goulding S, Henden E (2008) Application of a wool column for flow injection online preconcentration of inorganic mercury(II) and methyl mercury species prior to atomic fluorescence measurement. Talanta 76:1212-1217
36. Vollmer AC, Belkin S, Smulski DR, Van Dyk TK, LaRossa RA (1997) Detection of DNA damage by use of Escherichia coli carrying recA'::lux, uvrA'::lux, or alkA'::lux reporter plasmids. Appl Environ Microbiol 63:2566-2571
37. Yagi K (2007) Applications of whole-cell bacterial sensors in biotechnology and environmental science. Appl Microbiol Bio-technol 73:1251-1258
38. Zhong WH, Cai ZC, Zhang H (2007) Effects of long-term application of inorganic fertilizers on biochemical properties of a rice-planting red soil. Pedosphere 17:419-428