Assigning ecological roles to the populations belonging to a phenanthrene-degrading bacterial consortium using omic approaches.

ABSTRACT: The present study describes the behavior of a natural phenanthrene-degrading consortium (CON), a synthetic consortium (constructed with isolated strains from CON) and an isolated strain form CON (Sphingobium sp. AM) in phenanthrene cultures to understand the interactions among the microorganisms present in the natural consortium during phenanthrene degradation as a sole carbon and energy source in liquid cultures. In the contaminant degradation assay, the defined consortium not only achieved a major phenanthrene degradation percentage (> 95%) but also showed a more efficient elimination of the intermediate metabolite. The opposite behavior occurred in the CON culture where the lowest phenanthrene degradation and the highest HNA accumulation were observed, which suggests the presence of pos

SUBMITTER: Festa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5591006 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature