ABSTRACT: Pilot-scale fast and highly enriched ammonium-oxidizing bacteria for achieving rapid initiation and stable maintenance of nitritation treating low temperature municipal wastewater
Project description:A heterotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Alcaligenes sp. HO-1 was isolated from the activated sludge of a bioreactor treating ammonia-rich piggery wastewater. The goal and objectives of this experiment are to analyze the transcriptome profiles of nitrogen-metabolism-related genes of Alcaligenes sp. HO-1 in response to ammonium stimulation over time and to find out potential genes involved in ammonia oxidation process. So the RNA-seq anaylsis was performed by setting up each time points (0, 3.5, 10, 22 hours) when strain HO-1 were exposed to ammonia. HO-1 was cultured with 83 mM succinate and 14 mM ammonium sulfate until ammonia was completely consumed and then another 14 mM of ammonium sulfate was added to the culture. Cells were harvested at 0 h, 3.5 h, 10 h and 22 h after the addition of ammonium sulfate. The sequencing data of RNAs obtained from strain HO-1 cells at each time was analyzed.
Project description:This study evaluated the ammonium oxidizing communities (COA) associated with a potato crop (Solanum phureja) rhizosphere soil in the savannah of Bogotá (Colombia) by examining the presence and abundance of amoA enzyme genes and transcripts by qPCR and next-generation sequence analysis. amoA gene abundance could not be quantified by qPCR due to problems inherent in the primers; however, the melting curve analysis detected increased fluorescence for Bacterial communities but not for Archaeal communities. Transcriptome analysis by next-generation sequencing revealed that the majority of reads mapped to ammonium-oxidizing Archaea, suggesting that this activity is primarily governed by the microbial group of the Crenarchaeota phylum. In contrast,a lower number of reads mapped to ammonia-oxidizing bacteria.
