Electrosynthesis of commodity chemicals by an autotrophic microbial community

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8412-8420

  Marshall, Christopher W ^a   Ross, Daniel E ^b   Fichot, Erin B ^b   Norman, R Sean ^b   May, Harold D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ABIOTIC PRODUCTION; ARCHAEA; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOCATHODES; BREWERY WASTE; CARBON SOURCE; COMMODITY CHEMICALS; DOMINANT PRODUCT; ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; GRAPHITE CATHODES; LIQUID VOLUME; MEDIUM EXCHANGE; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MIDPOINT POTENTIALS; REDOX-ACTIVE; STANDARD HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; VOLUMETRIC PRODUCTION;

BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATHODES; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; LIQUID METHANE; METHANE; REDOX REACTIONS; RNA; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

CHEMICALS;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; HYDROGEN; METHANE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ACETATE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; BREWING INDUSTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROKINESIS; HYDROGEN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRODE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE;

ACETATES; ARCHAEA; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRODES; GENES, RRNA; HYDROGEN; METHANE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACETOBACTERIUM; METHANOBACTERIUM;

EID: 84870769198     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02401-12     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Abram A, Foster DL. 2005. A primer on ammonia, nitrogen fertilizers, and natural gas markets. AEDE-RP-0053-05. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
2. 2-producing capability of Desulfovibrio sp. ChemSusChem 5:1080-1085.
3. Balash PC, Kern KC. 2008. Natural gas and electricity costs and impacts on industry. DOE/NETL-2008/1320. U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
4. Cheng S, Logan BE. 2007. Sustainable and efficient biohydrogen production via electrohydrogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 104:18871-18873.
5. Cheng S, Xing D, Call DF, Logan BE. 2009. Direct biological conversion of electrical current into methane by electromethanogenesis. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43:3953-3958.
6. Cheung H, Tanke RS, Torrence GP. 2012. Acetic acid, p 209-237. In Ullman's encyclopedia of industrial chemistry. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany.
7. DeSantis TZ, et al. 2006. Greengenes: a chimera-checked 16S rRNA gene database and workbench compatible with ARB. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:5069-5072.
8. Drake HL, Gossner AS, Daniel SL. 2008. Old acetogens, new light. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1125:100-128.
9. Edgar RC, Haas BJ, Clemente JC, Quince C, Knight R. UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection. Bioinformatics 27: 2194-2200.
10. EERE. 2010. Vehicle Technologies Program: natural gas basics. DOE/GO-102010-3068. EERE/U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
11. Eid J, et al. 2009. Real-time DNA sequencing from single polymerase molecules. Science 323:133-138.
12. Gunsalus RP, Romesser JA, Wolfe RS. 1978. Preparation of coenzymeM analogues and their activity in the methyl coenzymeMreductase system of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. Biochemistry 17:2374-2376.
13. Hackett JT. 2011. Prudent development: realizing the potential of North America's abundant natural gas and oil resources. National Petroleum Council for the U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
14. Huse SM, Welch DM, Morrison HG, Sogin ML. 2010. Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering. Environ. Microbiol. 12:1889-1898.
15. Li H, et al. 2012. Integrated electromicrobial conversion of CO2 to higher alcohols. Science 335:1596.
16. Logan BE. 2009. Exoelectrogenic bacteria that power microbial fuel cells. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 7:375-381.
17. Logan BE, et al. 2006. Microbial fuel cells: methodology and technology. Environ. Sci. Technol. 40:5181-5192.
18. Lovley DR. 2006. Bug juice: harvesting electricity with microorganisms. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 4:497-508.
19. Mamedov TG, et al. 2008. A fundamental study of the PCR amplification of GC-rich DNA templates. Comput. Biol. Chem. 32:452-457.
20. Needleman SB, Wunsch CD. 1970. A general method applicable to search for similarities in amino acid sequence of 2 proteins. J. Mol. Biol. 48: 443.
21. Nevin KP, et al. 2011. Electrosynthesis of organic compounds from carbon dioxide is catalyzed by a diversity of acetogenic microorganisms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77:2882-2886.
22. Nevin KP, Woodard TL, Franks AE, Summers ZM, Lovley DR. 2010. Microbial electrosynthesis: feeding microbes electricity to convert carbon dioxide and water to multicarbon extracellular organic compounds. mBio 1:00103-10. doi:10.1128/mBio.00103-10.
23. Osborn SG, Vengosh A, Warner NR, Jackson RB. 2011. Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 108:8172-8176.
24. Parrondo J, Herrero M, Garcia LA, Diaz M. 2003. A note: production of vinegar from whey. J. Inst. Brewing 109:356-358.
25. Pisciotta JM, Zaybak Z, Call DF, Nam JY, Logan BE. 2012. Enrichment of microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) biocathodes from sediment microbial fuel cell (sMFC) bioanodes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78:5212-5219.
26. Pruesse E, et al. 2007. SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned rRNA sequence data compatible with ARB. Nucleic Acids Res. 35:7188-7196.
27. Rabaey K, Rozendal RA. 2010. Microbial electrosynthesis: revisiting the electrical route for microbial production. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 8:706-716.
28. Rozendal RA, Jeremiasse AW, Hamelers HV, Buisman CJ. 2008. Hydrogen production with a microbial biocathode. Environ. Sci. Technol. 42:629-634.
29. Schloss PD, Westcott SL. 2011. Assessing and improving methods used in operational taxonomic unit-based approaches for 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77:3219-3226.
30. Schloss PD, et al. 2009. Introducing Mothur: open-source, platformindependent, community-supported software for describing and comparing microbial communities. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:7537-7541.
31. Steinbusch KJ, Hamelers HV, Schaap JD, Kampman C, Buisman CJ. 2010. Bioelectrochemical ethanol production through mediated acetate reduction by mixed cultures. Environ. Sci. Technol. 44:513-517.
32. Summers ZM, et al. 2010. Direct exchange of electrons within aggregates of an evolved syntrophic coculture of anaerobic bacteria. Science 330: 1413-1415.
33. Villano M, et al. 2010. Bioelectrochemical reduction of CO2 to CH4 via direct and indirect extracellular electron transfer by a hydrogenophilic methanogenic culture. Bioresour Technol. 101:3085-3090.
34. Wang Q, Garrity GM, Tiedje JM, Cole JR. 2007. Naive Bayesian classifier for rapid assignment of rRNA sequences into the new bacterial taxonomy. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73:5261-5267.