Project description:Two parallel anaerobic digestion lines were designed to match a "bovid-like" digestive structure. Each of the lines consisted of two Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors placed in series and separated by an acidic treatment step. The first line was inoculated with industrial inocula whereas the second was seeded with cow digestive tract contents. After three month of continuous sewage sludge feeding, samples were recovered for shotgun metaproteomic and DNA-based analysis. Strikingly, protein inferred and 16S rDNA tags based taxonomic community profiles were not fully consistent. Principal Component analysis however revealed a similar clustering pattern of the samples, suggesting that reproducible methodological and/or biological factors underlie this observation. The performances of the two digestion lines did not differ significantly and the cow derived inocula did not establish in the reactors. A low throughput metagenomic dataset (3.4x106 reads, 1.1 Gb) was also generated for one of the samples. It allowed a substantial increase of the analysis depth (increase of the spectral identification rate). For the first time, a high level of proteins expressed by members of the "Candidatus Competibacter" group is reported in an anaerobic digester, a key microbial player in environmental bioprocess communities.
2015-08-12 | PXD002420 | Pride
Project description:Anammox consortia community in reactors
Project description:Identify and characterize two distinct communities, the aerobic community and the anaerobic community in the partial nitritation/anammox reactors using metaproteomics approach
Project description:The principles governing acquisition and interspecies exchange of nutrients in microbial communities and how those exchanges impact community productivity are poorly understood. Here, we examine energy and macronutrient acquisition in unicyanobacterial consortia for which species-resolved genome information exists for all members, allowing us to use multi-omic approaches to predict species’ abilities to acquire resources and examine expression of resource-acquisition genes during succession. Metabolic reconstruction indicated that a majority of heterotrophic community members lacked the genes required to directly acquire the inorganic nutrients provided in culture medium, suggesting high metabolic interdependency. The sole primary producer in consortium UCC-O, cyanobacterium Phormidium sp. OSCR, displayed declining expression of energy harvest, carbon fixation, and nitrate and sulfate reduction proteins but sharply increasing phosphate transporter expression over 28 days. Most heterotrophic members likewise exhibited signs of phosphorus starvation during succession. Though similar in their responses to phosphorus limitation, heterotrophs displayed species-specific expression of nitrogen acquisition genes. These results suggest niche partitioning around nitrogen sources may structure the community when organisms directly compete for limited phosphate. Such niche complementarity around nitrogen sources may increase community diversity and productivity in phosphate-limited phototrophic communities.
Project description:Reductive bioleaching of limonitic laterites: Fe(III) bio-reduction kinetics in anaerobic batch and continuous stirred tank reactors
| PRJEB71394 | ENA
Project description:dark fermentation for biohydrogen production in thermophilic continuous stirred-tank reactor
Project description:Development of microtiter plate based microbioreactor cultivation for Aspergillus giganteus with quasi-continuous online measurements. Different parameters such as well geometry, shaking frequency and morphology controlling agents were investigated in order to optimize the microtiter plate cultivation and scattered light signal towards reproducibility and homogeneity. An optimized medium was developed and scalability into stirred tank bioreactor cultivation was analyzed. As a transferability indicator the supernatant of both cultivation systems was analyzed for secreted protein patterns with a focus on an antifungal protein (AFP) and alpha-sarcin. These proteins were identified via LC-MS/MS.
Project description:Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) emerges as a sustainable solution for nitrogen removal in sewage, but it is susceptible to stress induced by xenobiotics that are ubiquitous in sewage. Despite wide recognition of this critical issue, a comprehensive understanding of the molecular and ecological mechanisms underlying the response of anammox consortia to xenobiotic stress remain elusive. Here, we integrated multi-omics approaches with biofilm reactor operation to unravel how bisphenol A (BPA, a representative xenobiotic) perturbs anammox consortia across environmentally relevant concentrations. We show that anammox consortia tolerated low BPA levels (0.2–2 mg/L), where nitrogen removal efficiency transiently declined and subsequently recovered, aided by a 30.9% increase in quorum-sensing (QS) signal C6-HSL. By contrast, exposure to ≥10 mg/L BPA caused severe and irreversible inhibition, with total inorganic nitrogen removal dropping to 17.8%. High BPA concentrations suppressed QS signaling, intensified oxidative stress, and compromised membrane integrity, leading to enzymatic inhibition and transcriptional repression of anammox functional genes. Multi-omics evidence revealed that BPA stress also promoted horizontal transfer of the BPA-degrading gene bisdA via extracellular DNA, suggesting a new community-level adaptive mechanism. Metagenomic and metabolomic analyses further indicated BPA-driven restructuring of microbial networks, namely high BPA levels favored denitrifiers and BPA degraders while suppressing anammox bacteria, and triggered metabolic reprogramming toward xenobiotic degradation at the expense of nucleotide and amino acid biosynthesis. Together, these findings reveal a multifaceted collapse mechanism of anammox under BPA stress, providing a mechanistic basis for designing strategies to safeguard microbial nitrogen removal in xenobiotic-laden wastewaters.