Journal
WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 85, Issue 5, Pages 1335-1350Publisher
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2022.068
Keywords
biosynthesis; corrinoid auxotrophs; corrinoid-producing organisms; microbial consortium; TCE reduction
Funding
- Open Fund project of Shandong Engineering Research Center for Environmental Protection and Remediation on Groundwater
- Talent Introduction Foundation of Sichuan University of Science and Engineering [2016RCL25]
- College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programs [cx2021056]
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This study investigated the utilization of a microbial consortium containing cobalamin-producing organisms for TCE reduction. It was found that certain bacteria in the consortium were responsible for biosynthesizing cobalamin, which was then utilized by Dehalococcoides mccartyi for TCE dechlorination. This finding has implications for cost reduction in TCE-contaminated site cleanup.
Complete dechlorination of trichloroethene (TCE) by Dehalococcoides mccartyi is catalyzed by reductive dehalogenases (RDases), which possess cobalamin as the crucial cofactor. However, virtually all D. mccartyi isolated thus far are corrinoid auxotrophs. The exogenous addition of commercially available cobalamin for TCE-contaminated site decontamination is costly. In this study, TCE reduction by a D. mccartyi-containing microbial consortium utilizing biosynthetic cobalamin generated by interior corrinoid-producing organisms within this microbial consortium was studied. The results confirmed that subcultures without exogenous cobalamin in the medium were apparently unaffected and were able to successively metabolize TCE to nonchlorinated ethene. The 2-bromoethanesulfonate and ampicillin resistance tests results suggested that ampicillin-sensitive bacteria rather than methanogenic archaea within this microbial consortium were responsible for biosynthesizing cobalamin. Moreover, relatively stable carbon isotopic enrichment factor (epsilon-(carbon)) values of TCE were obtained regardless of whether exogenous cobalamin or selective inhibitors existed in the medium, indicating that the cobalamin biosynthesized by these organisms was absorbed and utilized by D. mccartyi for RDase synthesis and eventually participated in TCE reduction. Finally, the Illumina MiSeq sequencing analysis indicated that Desulfitobacterium and Acetobacterium in this microbial consortium were responsible for the de novo cobalamin biosynthesis to fulfill the requirements of D. mccartyi for TCE metabolism.
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