Isolation of a methane-oxidizing bacterium that bioremediates hexavalent chromium from a formerly industrialized Suburban River
Isolation of a methane-oxidizing bacterium that bioremediates hexavalent chromium from a formerly industrialized Suburban River
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DOI:
10.1111/lam.13330
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发表时间:
2020-06-18
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2.4
通讯作者:
Smith, T. J.
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作者:
Challa, S.;Smith, T. J.
Sediment samples were taken from sediment adjacent to a suburban river in Sheffield in Northern England that had suffered heavy metal pollution due to previous activity of the steel industry (between the 17th and 19th centuries). The most abundant heavy metals found in the samples were lead, chromium, nickel, arsenic and cobalt, with maximum concentrations of 412 center dot 80, 25 center dot 232, 25 center dot 196, 8 center dot 123 and 7 center dot 66 mg kg(-1), respectively. Enrichment cultures were set up using methane as carbon and energy source, as a result of which a strain of methanotroph was isolated that was shown via 16S rRNA gene sequencing to be a strainMethylomonas koyamaeand given the designation SHU1.M. koyamaeSHU1 removed hexavalent chromium from an initial concentration of 10 ppm, which was inhibited by the metabolic inhibitor sodium azide or the methane monooxygenase inhibitor phenylacetylene. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first description of a strain of the widely environmentally distributed genusMethylomonasthat is capable of remediating hexavalent chromium.