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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2017

Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB)-Degrading Potential of Microbes Present in a Cryoconite of Jamtalferner Glacier.

Nancy Weiland-Bräuer, Martin A Fischer, Karl-Werner Schramm, Ruth A Schmitz

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Nancy Weiland-BräuerInstitute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielKiel, Germany.
Martin A FischerInstitute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielKiel, Germany.
Karl-Werner SchrammMolecular EXposomics, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbHNeuherberg, Germany.
Ruth A SchmitzInstitute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielKiel, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aiming to comprehensively survey the potential pollution of an alpine cryoconite (Jamtalferner glacier, Austria), and its bacterial community structure along with its biodegrading potential, first chemical analyses of persistent organic pollutants, explicitly polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) as well as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), revealed a significant contamination. In total, 18 PCB congeners were detected by high resolution gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with a mean concentration of 0.8 ng/g dry weight; 16 PAHs with an average concentration of 1,400 ng/g; and 26 out of 29 OCPs with a mean concentration of 2.4 ng/g. Second, the microbial composition was studied using 16S amplicon sequencing. The analysis revealed high abundances of Proteobacteria (66%), the majority representing α-Proteobacteria (87%); as well as Cyanobacteria (32%), however high diversity was due to 11 low abundant phyla comprising 75 genera. Biodegrading potential of cryoconite bacteria was further analyzed using enrichment cultures (microcosms) with PCB mixture Aroclor 1242. 16S rDNA analysis taxonomically classified 37 different biofilm-forming and PCB-degrading bacteria, represented by

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biodegradationcryoconitemicrobial communitiesorganochlorine pesticide (OCP)polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)

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