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ReviewBMC biology2026

Microbial communication in saline environments: quorum sensing and the future of anaerobic wastewater treatment.

Yuxin Pan, Xue-Ting Wang, Yanxue Li, Wei Wang, Christian Sonne, Yen Wah Tong, Nanqi Ren, Yong Sik Ok

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Review in BMC biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Yuxin PanNational Engineering Research Center for Safe Disposal and Resources Recovery of Sludge, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150090, China.
Xue-Ting WangNational Engineering Research Center for Safe Disposal and Resources Recovery of Sludge, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150090, China. xuetw@hit.edu.cn.
Yanxue LiNational Engineering Research Center for Safe Disposal and Resources Recovery of Sludge, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150090, China.
Wei WangNational Engineering Research Center for Safe Disposal and Resources Recovery of Sludge, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150090, China.
Christian SonneDepartment of Ecoscience, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Roskilde, DK-4000, Denmark.
Yen Wah TongDepartment of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117585, Singapore.
Nanqi RenNational Engineering Research Center for Safe Disposal and Resources Recovery of Sludge, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150090, China.
Yong Sik OkDivision of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea. yongsikok@korea.ac.kr.

Funding

Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education RS-2021-NR060142China Postdoctoral Science Foundation No. 2023M740917, 2024M754204Heilongjiang Province Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project No. LBH-Z23177National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) RS-2025-00555967Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province No. LH2024E042Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology No. QA202322Science Foundation of National Engineering Research Center for Safe Disposal and Resources Recovery of Sludge, Harbin Institute of Technology No. Z2024B010the National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 52300155, No. 52400025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anaerobic treatment of industrial wastewater offers a sustainable and cost-effective approach to reducing environmental contamination while recovering biogas. High-salinity wastewater poses ecological risks and remains difficult to treat due to salt-induced sludge disintegration, volatile fatty acid accumulation, and reduced methane production. Quorum sensing is emerging as a key regulator of microbial activity and system stability under salt stress. This review summarizes salinity-stress inhibition mechanisms, evaluates quorum sensing-based mitigation strategies, and proposes a stage- and performance-based framework for quorum sensing application to advance resilient and efficient anaerobic treatment systems.

Indexed as

Quorum SensingSalinityWaste Disposal, FluidWastewaterWater PurificationAnaerobiosisWastewaterAnaerobic biological treatmentFunctional microbiome reconstructionHigh-salinity wastewaterMethane productionQuorum sensing

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PMID42277753
PMCPMC13483398

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