Nitrification of high-strength ammonium landfill leachate with microbial community analysis using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 602-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norjan Yusof ◽  
Mohd Ali Hassan ◽  
Phang Lai Yee ◽  
Meisam Tabatabaei ◽  
Mohd Ridzuan Othman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Microbial Community ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Landfill Leachate ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Community Analysis ◽  
Microbial Community Analysis

Microbial community analysis of a full-scale membrane bioreactor treating industrial wastewater

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 1589-1594 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Naidoo ◽  
N. Ramdhani ◽  
F. Bux
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Microbial Community ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Community Analysis ◽  
Microbial Community Analysis ◽  
Gram Positive ◽  
Gram Positive Bacteria ◽  
Positive Hybridization ◽  
Gram Negative Organisms

A Kubota™ submerged membrane bio-reactor was applied to treat wastewater from a sugar manufacturing industry. To achieve optimal results, fundamental and extended understanding of the microbiology is important. Fluorescence in situ hybridization was used to evaluate the microbial community present. The majority of cells visualized in the sludge flocs by staining with the DNA fluorochrome DAPI, hybridized strongly with a bacterial probe. Probes specific for the alpha-, beta-, and gamma-subclasses of proteobacteria and high G + C Gram positive bacteria were used to characterize the community structures by in situ hybridization. Sampling was carried out over 12 weeks and samples were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde for gram positive organisms and ice cold ethanol for gram negative organisms. The activated sludge population usually constitutes about 80 to 90% of proteobacteria. However, in this study it was found that a relatively small amount of proteobacteria was present within the system. No positive hybridization signal was observed with any of the applied eubacterial family- level probes.

scholarly journals Use of Stable-Isotope Probing, Full-Cycle rRNA Analysis, and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization-Microautoradiography To Study a Methanol-Fed Denitrifying Microbial Community

2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 588-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maneesha P. Ginige ◽  
Philip Hugenholtz ◽  
Holger Daims ◽  
Michael Wagner ◽  
Jürg Keller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Microbial Community ◽  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Clone Library ◽  
Stable Isotope Probing ◽  
Denitrification Rate ◽  
Biological Nutrient Removal ◽  
Group A

ABSTRACT A denitrifying microbial consortium was enriched in an anoxically operated, methanol-fed sequencing batch reactor (SBR) fed with a mineral salts medium containing methanol as the sole carbon source and nitrate as the electron acceptor. The SBR was inoculated with sludge from a biological nutrient removal activated sludge plant exhibiting good denitrification. The SBR denitrification rate improved from less than 0.02 mg of NO3 −-N mg of mixed-liquor volatile suspended solids (MLVSS)−1 h−1 to a steady-state value of 0.06 mg of NO3 −-N mg of MLVSS−1 h−1 over a 7-month operational period. At this time, the enriched microbial community was subjected to stable-isotope probing (SIP) with [13C]methanol to biomark the DNA of the denitrifiers. The extracted [13C]DNA and [12C]DNA from the SIP experiment were separately subjected to full-cycle rRNA analysis. The dominant 16S rRNA gene phylotype (group A clones) in the [13C]DNA clone library was closely related to those of the obligate methylotrophs Methylobacillus and Methylophilus in the order Methylophilales of the Betaproteobacteria (96 to 97% sequence identities), while the most abundant clone groups in the [12C]DNA clone library mostly belonged to the family Saprospiraceae in the Bacteroidetes phylum. Oligonucleotide probes for use in fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) were designed to specifically target the group A clones and Methylophilales (probes DEN67 and MET1216, respectively) and the Saprospiraceae clones (probe SAP553). Application of these probes to the SBR biomass over the enrichment period demonstrated a strong correlation between the level of SBR denitrification and relative abundance of DEN67-targeted bacteria in the SBR community. By contrast, there was no correlation between the denitrification rate and the relative abundances of the well-known denitrifying genera Hyphomicrobium and Paracoccus or the Saprospiraceae clones visualized by FISH in the SBR biomass. FISH combined with microautoradiography independently confirmed that the DEN67-targeted cells were the dominant bacterial group capable of anoxic [14C]methanol uptake in the enriched biomass. The well-known denitrification lag period in the methanol-fed SBR was shown to coincide with a lag phase in growth of the DEN67-targeted denitrifying population. We conclude that Methylophilales bacteria are the dominant denitrifiers in our SBR system and likely are important denitrifiers in full-scale methanol-fed denitrifying sludges.

Detection of WWE2-relatedLentisphaeraeby 16S rRNA gene sequencing and fluorescence in situ hybridization in landfill leachate

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (10) ◽  
pp. 846-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rim Driss Limam ◽  
Théodore Bouchez ◽  
Rakia Chouari ◽  
Tianlun Li ◽  
Insaf Barkallah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
16S Rrna Gene ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Landfill Leachate ◽  
16S Rrna Gene Sequencing ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Rrna Gene Sequencing ◽  
Victivallis Vadensis

We collected samples of anaerobic landfill leachate from municipal solid waste landfill (Vert-le-Grand, France) and constructed 16S rRNA clone libraries using primers targeting Planctomycetes and relatives (Pla46F and 1390R). Analyses of 16S rRNA gene sequences resulted in the abundant representation of WWE2-related Lentisphaerae, members of the phylum Lentisphaerae, in the clone library (98% of the retrieved sequences). Although the sequences that are phylogenetically affiliated with the cultured isolate Victivallis vadensis were identified (WWE2 subgroup II), the majority of the sequences were affiliated with an uncultured Lentisphaerae lineage (WWE2 subgroup I). We designed oligonucleotides probes targeting the specific 16S rRNA gene regions of those 2 subgroups. Fluorescence in situ hybridization confirmed the abundance of the uncultivated WWE2 subgroup I in our leachate samples.

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