Development and characterization of an anaerobic microcosm for reductive dechlorination of PCBs

Dawei Liang , Shanquan Wang

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. ›› 2017, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (6) : 2

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Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. ›› 2017, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (6) : 2 DOI: 10.1007/s11783-017-0939-1
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Development and characterization of an anaerobic microcosm for reductive dechlorination of PCBs

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Abstract

A robust PCB-dechlorinating sediment-free enrichment culture is developed.

This enrichment culture can extensively dechlorinate a PCB mixture Aroclor 1260.

This culture effectively catalyzes major meta-PCBs dechlorination.

This study facilitates the exploration of PCB dechlorinators for bioremediation.

The toxic and recalcitrant polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) adversely affect human and biota by bioaccumulation and biomagnification through food chain. In this study, an anaerobic microcosm was developed to extensively dechlorinate hexa- and hepta-CBs in Aroclor 1260. After 4 months of incubation in defined mineral salts medium amended PCBs (70 mmol·L1) and lactate (10 mmol·L1), the culture dechlorinated hexa-CBs from 40.2% to 8.7% and hepta-CBs 33.6% to 11.6%, with dechlorination efficiencies of 78.3% and 65.5%, respectively (all in moL ratio). This dechlorination process led to tetra-CBs (46.4%) as the predominant dechlorination products, followed by penta- (22.1%) and tri-CBs (5.4%). The number of meta chlorines per biphenyl decreased from 2.50 to 1.41. Results of quantitative real-time PCR show that Dehalococcoides cells increased from 2.39 × 105±0.5 × 105 to 4.99 × 107±0.32 × 107 copies mL1 after 120 days of incubation, suggesting that Dehalococcoides play a major role in reductive dechlorination of PCBs. This study could prove the feasibility of anaerobic reductive culture enrichment for the dehalogenation of highly chlorinated PCBs, which is prior to be applied for in situ bioremediation of notorious halogenated compounds.

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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) / Microbial reductive dechlorination / Dehalococcoides / Pathway

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