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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 132, Issue -, Pages 123-131Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2016.05.033
Keywords
Microcystin; Elimination mechanism; Biodegradation; Sediment; Community composition
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31300434]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20130008120026]
- Scientific Research for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
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Hepatotoxic microcystins (MCs) produced by cyanobacteria pose serious risks to aquatic ecosystems and human health, to understand elimination pathways and mechanisms for MCs, especially in a shallow and semi-enclosed eutrophic area, is of great significance. This study succeed in discerning biodegradation and adsorption of microcystin-LR (MCLR) mediated by water and/or sediment in northern part of Meiliang Bay in Lake Taihu, China, and among the first to reveal the shifts of indigenous bacterial community composition in response to MCLR-biodegradation in sediment by Illumina high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Results confirmed that biodegradation predominantly governed MCLR elimination as compared to adsorption in study area. Through faster biodegradation with a rate of 49.21 mu g L-1 d(-1), lake water contributed more to overall MCLR removal than sediment. Sediment also played indispensable role in MCLR removal via primarily biodegradation by indigenous community (a rate of 1727 mu g L-1 d(-1)) and secondarily adsorption (<20% of initial concentration). HTS analysis showed that indigenous community composition shifted with decreased phylogenetic diversity in response to sediment-mediated MCLR-biodegradation. Proteobacteria became predominant (3934-86.78%) in overall composition after biodegradation, which was mostly contributed by sharp proliferation of beta-proteobactetia (22.76-74.80%), and might closely link to MCLR-biodegradation in sediment. Moreover, the members of several genera belonging to alpha-proteobacteria, beta-proteobacteria and gamma-proteobacteria seemed to be key degraders because of their dominance or increasing population as MCLR degraded. This study expands understanding on natural elimination mechanism for MCs, and provides guidance to reduce MCs' biological risks and guarantee ecosystem safety in aquatic habitats. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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