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Antibiotic Dereplication Using the Antibiotic Resistance Platform
Published on: October 17, 2019
Different acesulfame potassium fate and antibiotic resistance propagation pattern in nitrifying and denitrifying
Ziqiao Li1, Jingfeng Gao1, Yifan Zhao1
1National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
Abstract:
Acesulfame potassium (ACE-K) is a widely utilized sugar substitute with increasing demand, which is frequently detected in various environmental matrix due to recalcitrance. However, a general consensus on the contribution of nitrifying and denitrifying process to ACE-K removal is lacking. Therefore, ACE-K removal, its effects on antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) propagation and microbial community in nitrifying sequencing batch reactor (N-SBR) and denitrifying sequencing batch reactor (D-SBR) inoculated with the identical activated sludge were investigated. In this study, ACE-K can be eliminated in N-SBR with satisfying removal efficiency (96.76 ± 8.33 %) after 13 d acclimation, while it remained persistent (average ACE-K removal efficiency of 2.24 ± 1.86 %) in D-SBR during 84 d exposure. Moreover, ACE-K hardly affected the performances of these two types of reactors and had little impact on nitrifying and denitrifying functional genes. However, initial contact with ACE-K would increase ARGs abundance, network analysis showed functional bacteria in each reactor were possible ARGs hosts. Potential ACE-K degrading genera Chelatococcus, Bosea and Aquamicrobium were found in both reactors. LefSe analysis showed that Phyllobacteriaceae containing Aquamicrobium genus was a differentially enriched family in N-SBR. This research might provide a perspective for better understanding factor affecting ACE-K fate in wastewater treatment process and its ecological risks.
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