ArticleEnvironmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)2021
Biodegradation of PCB congeners by Paraburkholderia xenovorans LB400 in presence and absence of sediment during lab bioreactor experiments.
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Abstract
Experiments were conducted to measure biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners contained in mixture Aroclor 1248 and congeners present in wastewater lagoon sediment contaminated decades earlier at Altavista, Virginia. A well-characterized strain of aerobic PCB-degrading bacteria, Paraburkholderia xenovorans LB400 was incubated in laboratory bioreactors with PCB-contaminated sediment collected at the site. The experiments evaluated strain LB400's ability to degrade PCBs in absence of sediment and in PCB-contaminated sediment slurry. In absence of sediment, LB400 transformed 76% of Aroclor 1248 within seven days, spanning all homolog groups present in the mixture. In sediment slurry, only mono- and di-chlorinated PCB congeners were transformed. These results show that LB400 is capable of rapidly biodegrading most PCB congeners when they are freely dissolved in liquid but cannot degrade PCB congeners having three or more chlorine substituents in sediment slurry. Finally, using GC/MS-MS triple quadrupole spectrometry, this work distinguishes between physical (sorption to cells) and biological removal mechanisms, illuminates the process by which microorganisms with LB400-type congener specificity can selectively transform lower-chlorinated congeners over time, and makes direct comparisons to other studies where individual congener data is reported.
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