Trophic link between syntrophic acetogens and homoacetogens during the anaerobic acidogenic fermentation of sewage sludge

Biochemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-8

  Wang, Jin ^a,b   Liu, He ^a   Fu, Bo ^a   Xu, Kewei ^a   Chen, Jian ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acetic acid; Anaerobic digestion; Biodegradation; Homoacetogens; Sewage sludge; Syntrophic acetogens; Waste treatment

Indexed keywords

ACETOGENIC BACTERIA; ACETOGENS; ACIDOGENIC FERMENTATION; ANAEROBIC SLUDGE; ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; HOMOACETOGENS; METHANOGENESIS; QUANTIFICATION ANALYSIS; REACTION ACTIVITY;

ACETIC ACID; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIODEGRADATION; FERMENTATION; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; WASTE TREATMENT;

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AMMONIA; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN;

ACIDIFICATION; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE DOSAGE; HYDROLYSIS; METHANOGENESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84867218916     PISSN: 1369703X     EISSN: 1873295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2012.09.012     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Wang G., Mu Y., Yu H.Q. Response surface analysis to evaluate the influence of pH, temperature and substrate concentration on the acidogenesis of sucrose-rich wastewater. Biochem. Eng. J. 2005, 23:175-184.
2. Bengtsson S., Hallquist J., Werker A., Welander T. Acidogenic fermentation of industrial wastewaters: effects of chemostat retention time and pH on volatile fatty acids production. Biochem. Eng. J. 2008, 40:492-499.
3. Angenent L.T., Karim K., Al-Dahhan M.H., Wrenn B.A., Domíguez-Espinosa R. Production of bioenergy and biochemicals from industrial and agricultural wastewater. Trends Biotechnol. 2004, 22:477-485.
4. Agler M.T., Wrenn B.A., Zinder S.H., Angenent L.T. Waste to bioproduct conversion with undefined mixed cultures: the carboxylate platform. Trends Biotechnol. 2001, 29:70-78.
5. Morgan-Sagastume F., Pratt S., Karlsson A., et al. Production of volatile fatty acids by fermentation of waste activated sludge pre-treated in full-scale thermal hydrolysis plants. Bioresource Technol. 2001, 102:3089-3097.
6. Chen Y.G., Li X.A., Chen H., Hu L.F., Yu L., Gu G.W. Pilot-scale waste activated sludge alkaline fermentation, fermentation liquid separation, and application of fermentation liquid to improve biological nutrient removal. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45:1834-1839.
7. Tong J.A., Chen Y.G. Enhanced biological phosphorus removal driven by short-chain fatty acids produced from waste activated sludge alkaline fermentation. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007, 41:7126-7130.
8. McInerney M.J., Sieber J.R., Gunsalus R.P. Syntrophy in anaerobic global carbon cycles. Curr. Opin. Biotech. 2009, 20:623-632.
9. Stams A.J.M., Plugge C.M. Electron transfer in syntrophic communities of anaerobic bacteria and archaea. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 2009, 7:568-577.
10. Drake H.L., Kusel K., Matthies C. Ecological consequences of the phylogenetic and physiological diversities of acetogens. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2002, 81:203-213.
11. Liu H., Wang J., Wang A.J., Chen J. Chemical inhibitors of methanogenesis and putative applications. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2011, 89:1333-1340.
12. Liu X.L., Liu H., Chen J.H., Du G.C., Chen J. Enhancement of solubilization and acidification of waste activated sludge by pretreatment. Waste Manage. 2008, 28:2614-2622.
13. APHA, AWWA, WEF, Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater, 20th ed, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, USA, 1998.
14. Xu K.W., Liu H., Du G.C., Chen J., Real-time PCR assays targeting formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase gene to enumerate acetogens in natural and engineered environments. Anaerobe 2009, 15:204-213.
15. Amann R.I., Krumholz L., Stahl D.A. Fluorescent-oligonucleotide probing of whole cells for determinative, phylogenetic, and environmental studies in microbiology. J. Bacteriol. 1990, 172:762-770.
16. Xu K.W., Liu H., Li X.F., Chen J., Wang A.J. Typical methanogenic inhibitors can considerably alter bacterial populations and affect the interaction between fatty acid degraders and homoacetogens. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2010, 87:2267-2279.
17. Hansen K.H., Ahring B.K., Raskin L. Quantification of syntrophic fatty acid--oxidizing bacteria in a mesophilic biogas reactor by oligonucleotide probe hybridization. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1999, 65:4767-4774.
18. Davenport R.J., Curtis T.P., Goodfellow M., Stainsby F.M., Bingley M. Quantitative use of fluorescent in situ hybridization to examine relationships between mycolic acid-containing actinomycetes and foaming in activated sludge plants. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000, 66:1158-1166.
19. Amani T., Nosrati M., Sreekrishnan T.R. Anaerobic digestion from the viewpoint of microbiological, chemical, and operational aspects - a review. Environ. Rev. 2010, 18:255-278.
20. Ryan P., Forbes C., McHugh S., C.O'Reilly, Fleming G.T.A., Colleran E. Enrichment of acetogenic bacteria in high rate anaerobic reactors under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. Water Res. 2010, 44:4261-4269.
21. Chen Y.G., Jiang S., Yuan H.Y., Zhou Q., Gu G.W. Hydrolysis and acidification of waste activated sludge at different pHs. Water Res. 2007, 41:683-689.
22. McInerney M.J., Rohlin L., Mouttaki H., Kim U., Krupp R.S., Rios-Hernandez L., Sieber J., Struchtemeyer C.G., Bhattacharyya A., Campbell J.W., Gunsalus R.P. The genome of Syntrophus aciditrophicus: Life at the thermodynamic limit of microbial growth. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2007, 104:7600-7605.
23. 2 sink during thermophilic anaerobic degradation of butyrate under suppressed methanogenesis. Water Res. 2007, 41:4204-4210.
24. De Graeve K.G., Grivet J.P. Competition between reductive acetogenesis and methanogenesis in the pig large-intestinal flora. J. Appl. Bacteriol. 1994, 76:55-61.
25. Grady C.P.L., Daigger G.T., Lim H.C. Biological Wastewater Treatment 1999, Marcel Dekker, New York. Revised and expanded 2nd edition.
26. Appels L., Baeyens J., Degrève J., Dewil R. Principles and potential of the anaerobic digestion of waste-activated sludge. Progress Energy Combustion Sci. 2008, 34:755-781.
27. Haandel A.C., Lettinga G. Anaerobic Sewage Treatment: A Practical Guide for Regions with a Hot Climate 1994, John Wiley & Sons.
28. Stronach S.M., Rudd T., Lester J.N. Anaerobic Digestion Processes in Industrial Wastewater Treatment 1986, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
29. Parameswaran P., Torres C.I., Lee H.S., Rittmann B.E., Krajmalnik-Brown R. Hydrogen consumption in microbial electrochemical systems (MXCs): the role of homo-acetogenic bacteria. Bioresource Technol. 2011, 102:263-271.
30. Drake H.L., Horn M.A., Wust P.K. Intermediary ecosystem metabolism as a main driver of methanogenesis in acidic wetland soil. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 2009, 1:307-318.
31. Muller N., Worm P., Schink B., Stams A.J.M., Plugge C.M. Syntrophic butyrate and propionate oxidation processes: from genomes to reaction mechanisms. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 2010, 2:489-499.
32. Schink B. Energetics of syntrophic cooperation in methanogenic degradation. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 1997, 61:262-280.