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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 172, Issue -, Pages 159-166Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.01.070
Keywords
Atrazine; Enhancing biodegradation; Phosphorus-solubilizing bacterium; Co-culture; Metabolic exchanges
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- Training Program for Young Creative Talents of Ordinary Undergraduate Colleges and Universities in Heilongjiang Province [UNPYSCT-2016155]
- Backbone Project of Northeast Agricultural University [17XG07]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFD0800903]
- National Nature Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [41625002]
- Agricultural Research Outstanding Talents and Innovation Team
- Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Protection and Remediation
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The interaction between pure culture microorganisms has been evaluated allowing for the enhanced biodegradation of various kinds of pollutants. Arthrobacter sp. DNS10 previously enriched in an atrazine-containing soil was capable of utilizing atrazine as the sole nitrogen source for growth, and Enterobacter sp. P1 is a phosphorus-solubilizing bacterium that releases various kinds of organic acids but lacks the ability to degrade atrazine. Whether strain P1 could enhance atrazine biodegradation by the degrader strain DNS10 was investigated in this experiment. Gas chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography results showed that co-culture of both strains degraded 99.18 +/- 1.00% of the atrazine (initial concentration was 100 mg L-1), while the single strain DNS10 only degraded 38.57 +/- 7.39% after a 48 h culture, and the resulting concentration of the atrazine final metabolite cyanuric acid were 63.91 +/- 3.34 mg L-1 and 26.60 +/- 3.87 mg L-1, respectively. In addition, the expression of the atrazine degradation-related genes trzN, atzB and atzC in co-culture treatments was 6.61, 1.81 and 3.09 times that of the single strain DNS10 culture treatment. A substrates utilization test showed that the atrazine-degrading metabolites ethylamine and isopropylamine could serve as the nitrogen source to support strain P1 growth, although strain P1 cannot degrade atrazine or utilize atrazine for growth. Furthermore, the pH of the medium was significantly decreased when strain P1 utilized ethylamine and isopropylamine as the nitrogen source for growth. The results suggest that nondegrader strain P1 could promote the atrazine biodegradation when co-cultured with strain DNS10. This phenomenon is due to metabolite exchange between the two strains. Culturing these two strains together is a new biostimulation strategy to enhance the biodegradation of atrazine by culturing these two strains together.
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