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ArticleApplied microbiology and biotechnology2024

Effect of UV pretreatment on the source control of floR during subsequent biotreatment of florfenicol wastewater.

Yangcheng Ding, Huajun Feng, Jinglong Han, Wenli Jiang, Shuangjing Dong, Haoyi Cheng, Meizhen Wang, Aijie Wang

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Article in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yangcheng DingSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, People's Republic of China.
Huajun FengSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, People's Republic of China.
Jinglong HanSchool of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518055, People's Republic of China. hanjinglong@yeah.net.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2465-5904
Wenli JiangDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Shuangjing DongSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, People's Republic of China.
Haoyi ChengSchool of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518055, People's Republic of China.
Meizhen WangSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, People's Republic of China.
Aijie WangSchool of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518055, People's Republic of China.
Zhejiang Gongshang University · CNShenzhen Institute of Information Technology · CNUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

UV photolysis has been recommended as an alternative pretreatment method for the elimination of antibacterial activity of antibiotics against the indicator strain, but the pretreated antibiotic intermediates might not lose their potential to induce antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) proliferation during subsequent biotreatment processes. The presence of florfenicol (FLO) in wastewater seriously inhibits the metabolic performance of anaerobic sludge microorganisms, especially the positive correlation between UV irradiation doses and ATP content, while it did not significantly affect the organics utilization ability and protein biosynthetic process of aerobic microorganisms. After sufficient UV pretreatment, the relative abundances of floR from genomic or plasmid DNA in subsequent aerobic and anaerobic biotreatment processes both decreased by two orders of magnitude, maintained at the level of the groups without FLO selective pressure. Meanwhile, the abundances of floR under anaerobic condition were always lower than that under aerobic condition, suggesting that anaerobic biotreatment systems might be more suitable for the effective control of target ARGs. The higher abundance of floR in plasmid DNA than in genome also indicated that the potential transmission risk of mobile ARGs should not be ignored. In addition, the relative abundance of intI1 was positively correlated with floR in its corresponding genomic or plasmid DNA (p < 0.05), which also increased the potential horizontal transfer risk of target ARGs. This study provides new insights into the effect of preferential UV photolysis as a pretreatment method for the enhancement of metabolic performance and source control of target ARGs in subsequent biotreatment processes. KEY POINTS: • Sufficient UV photolytic pretreatment efficiently controlled the abundance of floR • A synchronous decrease in abundance of intI1 reduced the risk of horizontal transfer • An appreciable abundance of floR in plasmid DNA was a potential source of total ARGs.

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Genes, BacterialWastewaterAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNAThiamphenicolAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNAflorfenicolThiamphenicolWastewaterAntibiotic resistance genesAntibiotic selective pressureBiological treatmentFlorfenicolIntegron-integrase genesUV photolytic pretreatment

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PMID38212963
PMCPMC13496960
OpenAlexW4390749150

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