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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 1, Pages 196-202Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es504546g
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2012CB22307]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong, China [S2013010014596]
- National Natural Science Foundation [51422803, 31200096]
- Outstanding Scholar Project of Guangdong Academy of Science [rcjj201502]
- Guangdong Provincial Innovative Development of Marine Economy Regional Demonstration Projects [GD2012-D01-002]
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Bacterial respiration is an essential driving force in biogeochemical cycling and bioremediation processes. Electron acceptors respired by bacteria often have solid and soluble forms that typically coexist in the environment. It is important to understand how sessile bacteria attached to solid electron acceptors respond to ambient soluble alternative electron acceptors. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) provide a useful tool to investigate this interaction. In MFCs with Shewanella decolorationis, azo dye was used as an alternative electron acceptor in the anode chamber. Different respiration patterns were observed for biofilm and planktonic cells, with planktonic cells preferred to respire with azo dye while biofilm cells respired with both the anode and azo dye. The additional azo respiration dissipated the proton accumulation within the anode biofilm. There was a large redox potential gap between the biofilms and anode surface. Changing cathodic conditions caused immediate effects on the anode potential but not on the biofilm potential. Biofilm viability showed an inverse and respiration-dependent profile when respiring with only the anode or azo dye and was enhanced when respiring with both simultaneously. These results provide new insights into the bacterial respiration strategies in environments containing multiple electron acceptors and support an electron-hopping mechanism within Shewanella electrode-respiring biofilms.
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