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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 259, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127428
Keywords
Enterobacter; Chromate reduction; Arsenite oxidation; Wastewater microbial pretreatment; Cysteine
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFD0800702]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31900078]
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Simultaneous chromate [Cr(VI)] reduction and arsenite [As(III)] oxidation is a promising pretreatment process for Cr and As removal. Here, a facultative anaerobic bacterium, Enterobacter sp. Z(1), presented capacities of simultaneous Cr(VI) reduction and As(III) oxidation during anoxic cultivation in a wild range of temperature (20-45 degrees C) and pH (Cerkez et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2015; China Environmental Prote, 1996; Fan et al., 2008, 2019) conditions. Strikingly, strain Z1 could simultaneously contribute up to 92.8% of the reduction of Cr(VI) and 45.8% of the oxidation of As(III) in wastewater. The cells of strain Z1 were embedded with sodium alginate to produce biobeads, and the biobeads exhibited stable ratio of Cr(VI) reduction (91.8%) and As(III) oxidation (29.6%) even in the 5 continuous cycles of wastewater treatment. Moreover, in a process pretreated with the Z1 biobeads followed a precipitation with Ca(OH)(2) and FeCl3, the removal efficiencies in wastewater were 98.9% and 98.3% for total Cr and As, respectively, which were 44.1% and 9.8% higher than those of using Ca(OH)(2) and FeCl3, only. The residual amounts of Cr and As met the national standard levels of wastewater discharge. Proteomics analysis showed that cysteine, sulfur and methionine metabolisms, As resistance and oxidoreductase (CysH, CysI, CysJ, NemA and HemF) were induced by Cr(VI) and As(III). Moreover, the addition of cysteine to the medium also significantly improved bacterial Cr(VI) reduction rate. Our results provide a novel microbial pretreatment approach for enhancing remediation of Cr(VI) and As(III) pollution in wastewater, and reveal the evident that cysteine, sulfur and methionine metabolisms, As resistance and oxidoreductases are associated with the redox conversion of Cr(VI) and As(III). (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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