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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 7, Pages 3841-3849Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06695
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China, China [2016YFD0800700]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China, China [41877422]
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Arsenic biotransformation mediated by gut microbiota can affect arsenic bioavailability and microbial community. Arsenic species, arsenic biotransformation genes (ABGs), and the composition of gut microbial community were characterized after the earthworm Metaphire sieboldi was cultured in soils spiked with different arsenic concentrations. Arsenite (As(III)) was the major component in the earthworm gut, whereas arsenate (As(V)) was predominant in the soil. A total of 16 ABGs were quantified by high-throughput quantitative polymerase chain reaction (HT-qPCR). Genes involved in arsenic redox and efflux were predominant in all samples, and the abundance of ABGs involved in arsenic methylation and demethylation in the gut was very low. These results reveal that the earthworm gut can be a reservoir of microbes with the capability of reducing As(V) and extruding As(III) but with little methylation of arsenic. Moreover, gut microbial communities were dominated by Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria at the phylum level and were considerably different from those in the surrounding soil. Our work demonstrates that exposure to As(V) disturbs the gut microbiota of earthworms and provides some insights into arsenic biotransformation in the earthworm gut.
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