表面活性剂影响微生物降解多环芳烃的研究进展

多环芳烃(Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons,PAHs)的强疏水性是阻止其在土壤和水环境中微生物降解的主要因素.表面活性剂由于能够提高PAHs的表观溶解度而在PAHs的微生物降解中得到了广泛研究.截至目前,有关化学或生物表面活性剂促进PAHs的微生物降解已有大量报道,然而也有学者发现了表面...     

表面活性剂的增溶作用及在土壤中的行为

表面活性剂胶束的存在是导致难溶有机化合物(HOCs)溶解度增加的主要原因,表面活性剂对土壤的影响很大,即使很低浓度的表面活性剂也会明显改变土壤的物理、化学和生物性质,其中表面活性剂的吸附过程起了主要作用,另外,表面活性剂的类型、结构和浓度以及所处环境条件和微生物种类都对土壤中植物、微生物生长和其本身的生物降解和去除有影响,这些都将导致土壤中原有污染物迁移转化的改变,应该引起人们的日益重视。     

土壤中高环多环芳烃微生物降解的研究进展

微生物修复是去除土壤中多环芳烃(PAHs)的主要措施。本文以微生物修复PAHs污染土壤的理论基础及其难点为主线,全面综述了土壤中高环PAHs的微生物降解机理。近年来,富集分离得到的以高环PAHs为唯一碳源和能源的优势降解菌逐渐增多,其中,主要是代谢降解四环PAHs的单株降解菌,一些降解菌还能以共代谢方式利用五环PAHs。高环PAHs污染土壤修复的一个难点是其低生物可利用性,微生物通过释放生物表面活性剂、形成生物膜以及分泌胞外多糖提高高环PAHs的生物可利用性,从而加速其降解。真菌和细菌联合作用能增强污染土壤实地修复的效果。因此,通过微生物修复技术来去除土壤中PAHs具有环境友好性、经济适用性以及可持续应用性。     

生物表面活性剂对红球菌SY095降解正十六烷及细胞表面性质的影响

目的:研究红球菌SY095产生物表面活性剂对正十六烷的溶解性、微生物降解正十六烷的效率、菌体生长及菌体表面疏水性的影响。方法:测定添加不同生物表面活性剂的降解体系中菌体生物量、细胞表面疏水性、正十六烷含量的变化。结果:生物表面活性剂对疏水性底物正十六烷具有很强的增溶作用,可以显著提高正十六烷的表观溶解度;生物表面活性剂对正十六烷的生物降解具有促进作用,添加量为100 mg/L时,96 h正十六烷去除率达93.32%;生物表面活性剂能明显促进红球菌SY095生长,添加量为300 mg/L时,菌株32 h生物量为未添加生物表面活性剂对照组的2.7倍;生物表面活性剂还能引起红球菌SY095菌体表面疏水性明显增大,添加量为25 mg/L时,菌株对数生长期BATH值达66.94%,高于未添加生物表面活性剂对照组的42.99%。结论:生物表面活性剂可以增加菌体的表面疏水性,促进微生物对正十六烷的生物降解。     

表面活性剂TW-80对土壤中多环芳烃生物降解的影响

以表面活性剂TW80为供试物,进行了为期150d的实验研究,并分别在30、60和150d间隔采样监测PAHs降解率。结果表明,30d后,土壤中PAHs的降解率达90%,比对照提高约30%.60d后,浓度为10000mg·kg^-1表面活性剂的土壤和对照中,PAHs降解率从65.1%和60%迅速提高到93.8%和79.2%.其它处理中,PAHs的平均降解率仅比30d的结果提高4%.150d后,所有处理中PAHs的降解率均达到90%以上。可以认为,表面活性剂能提高PAHs的生物可利用性,加快PAHs的降解速率,从而减少污染暴露时间。但表面活性剂浓度过高可抑制微生物活性。研究还发现,TW80土壤中含有优势真菌。经鉴定为常见青霉、蠕形青霉、淡紫青霉和顶孢头孢霉。它们是土壤PAHs迅速降解的动因.     

表面活性剂调控瘤胃营养功能研究进展

表面活性剂分为化学表面活性剂和生物表面活性剂两大类,非离子表面活性剂和生物表面活性剂作为新型反刍动物饲料添加剂,可通过改变瘤胃液乳化特性、瘤胃微生物种群数量、分泌酶活性、酶吸附能力和瘤胃发酵模式,来增强瘤胃微生物对粗饲料的降解能力,进而提高反刍动物生产性能。综述提出了表面活性剂在反刍动物瘤胃营养调控领域的研究重点。     

生物炭对农田土壤微生物生态的影响研究进展

生物炭作为新型土壤改良剂在国内外环境科学等领域受到广泛的关注.关于生物炭对土壤理化性质的改良研究较早,目前虽然已深入到土壤微生物生态的领域,但是大多数将土壤理化性质与土壤微生物生态分开考虑,缺乏对二者相互作用的系统评述.本文总结了施用生物炭后土壤理化性质的改变与土壤微生物群落变化之间的相互关系:生物炭不仅能够提高土壤pH值、增强土壤的持水能力、增加土壤有机质等,而且会影响土壤微生物的群落结构、改变细菌和真菌的丰度;施用生物炭后,土壤环境和土壤微生物之间互相影响互相制约,共同促进了土壤微生物生态系统的改良.本文旨在为生物炭改良农田土壤微生态的深入研究提供新的思路,从生态系统的角度促进生物炭环境效应影响的研究,使生物炭的应用更具有科学性和有效性,并对生物炭在相关领域的应用进行了展望.     

微生物产生的生物表面活性剂及其应用研究

对生物表面活性剂的类型及其产生微生物,生物表面活性剂的生产和生物表面活性剂在石油开采、食品工业、农业、药品和化妆品以及环境保护等领域的潜在应用价值作了介绍,展现出了生物表面活性剂的广阔应用前景。     

多环芳烃在土壤中的行为

多环芳烃（PAHs)在土壤中达到吸附平衡时存在“快”和“慢”两个吸附过程,植物能够从土壤中吸收低分子量的PAHs并向植物的地上部分迁移转化,但PAHs在植物体内主要的累积方式是植物地上部分的空气污染,微生物对PAHs的降解依然是去除PAHs的主要方式,主要通过微生物产生的酶的作用,本文详细分析了影响PAHs生物去除的各种因素。     

生物表面活性剂及其应用

生物表面活性剂 (biosurfactant)是表面活性剂家族中的后起之秀 ,它是由微生物所产生的一类具有表面活性作用的物质。它具有减小表面张力、稳定乳化作用、增加泡沫等作用。它的表面活性作用以及对热、p H的稳定性均与化学合成的表面活性剂相当。但它具有一般的化学合成表面活性剂所无法篦美的优点——与环境的兼容性 ,即它没有毒性 ,并可被生物降解 ,因此它们不会对环境造成不利的影响。随着环保意识的不断增强 ,生物表面活性剂正愈来愈受到人们的关注。1　生物表面活性剂的结构特点生物表面活性剂通常是由微生物产生的 ,且多数是由细菌和…     

Effects of humic substances and soya lecithin on the aerobic bioremediation of a soil historically contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

The high hydrophobicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) strongly reduces their bioavailability in aged contaminated soils, thus limiting their bioremediation. The biodegradation of PAHs in soils can be enhanced by employing surface-active agents. However, chemical surfactants are often recalcitrant and exert toxic effects in the amended soils. The effects of two biogenic materials as pollutant-mobilizing agents on the aerobic bioremediation of an aged-contaminated soil were investigated here. A soil historically contaminated by about 13 g kg(-1) of a large variety of PAHs, was amended with soya lecithin (SL) or humic substances (HS) at 1.5% w/w and incubated in aerobic solid-phase and slurry-phase reactors for 150 days. A slow and only partial biodegradation of low-molecular weight PAHs, along with a moderate depletion of the initial soil ecotoxicity, was observed in the control reactors. The overall removal of PAHs in the presence of SL or HS was faster and more extensive and accompanied by a larger soil detoxification, especially under slurry-phase conditions. The SL and HS could be metabolized by soil aerobic microorganisms and enhanced the occurrence of both soil PAHs and indigenous aerobic PAH-degrading bacteria in the reactor water phase. These results indicate that SL and HS are biodegradable and efficiently enhance PAH bioavailability in soil. These natural surfactants significantly intensified the aerobic bioremediation of a historically PAH-contaminated soil under treatment conditions similar to those commonly employed in large-scale soil bioremediation.     

Effect of calcium on the surfactant tolerance of a fluoranthene degrading bacterium

Surfactants are known to increase the apparent aqueous solubility of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and may thus be used to enhance the bioavailability and thereby to stimulate the biodegradation of these hydrophobic compounds. However, surfactants may in some cases reduce or inhibit biodegradation because of toxicity to the bacteria. In this study, toxicity of surfactants on Sphingomonas paucimobilis strain EPA505 and the effect on fluoranthene mineralization were investigated using Triton X-100 as model surfactant. The data showed that amendment with 0.48 mM (0.3 g l-1) of Triton X-100 completely inhibited fluoranthene and glucose mineralization and reduced cell culturability by 100% in 24 h. Electron micrographs indicate that Triton X-100 adversely affects the functioning of the cytoplasmic membrane. However, in the presence of 4.13 mM Ca2+-ions, Triton X-100 more than doubled the maximum fluoranthene mineralization rate and cell culturability was reduced by only 10%. In liquid cultures divalent ions, Ca2+ in particular and Mg2+ to a lesser extent, were thus shown to be essential for the surfactant-enhanced biodegradation of fluoranthene. Most likely the Ca2+-ions stabilized the cell membrane, making the cell less sensitive to Triton X-100. This is the first report on a specific factor which is important for successful surfactant-enhanced biodegradation of PAHs.     

微生物降解多环芳烃(PAHs)的研究进展

从多环芳烃(PAHs)的降解菌株的筛选、降解机制以及PAHs污染的生物修复等方面介绍了微生物降解PAHs的最新研究进展。     

Natural roles of biosurfactants

Microorganisms produce a variety of surface-active agents (or surfactants). These can be divided into low-molecular-weight molecules that lower surface and interfacial tensions efficiently and high-molecular-weight polymers that bind tightly to surfaces. These surfactants, produced by a wide variety of microorganisms, have very different chemical structures and surface properties. It is therefore reasonable to assume that different groups of biosurfactants have different natural roles in the growth of the producing microorganisms. Moreover, as their chemical structures and surface properties are so different, each emulsifier probably provides advantages in a particular ecological niche. Several bioemulsifiers have antibacterial or antifungal activities. Other bioemulsifiers enhance the growth of bacteria on hydrophobic water-insoluble substrates by increasing their bioavailability, presumably by increasing their surface area, desorbing them from surfaces and increasing their apparent solubility. Bioemulsifiers also play an important role in regulating the attachment–detachment of microorganisms to and from surfaces. In addition, emulsifiers are involved in bacterial pathogenesis, quorum sensing and biofilm formation. Recent experiments indicate that a high-molecular-weight bioemulsifier that coats the bacterial surface can be transferred horizontally to other bacteria, thereby changing their surface properties and interactions with the environment.     

Effect of different non-ionic surfactants on the biodegradation of PAHs by diverse aerobic bacteria

The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of several non-ionic surfactants (Tween-80, Triton X-100 and Tergitol NP-10) on the ability of different bacteria (Enterobacter sp., Pseudomonas sp. and Stenotrophomonas sp.) to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Bacterial cultures were performed at 25 °C in an orbital shaker under dark conditions in BHB medium containing 1% of surfactant and 500 mg l⁻¹ of each PAH. Experiments performed with Tween-80 showed the highest cell density values and maximum specific growth rate because this surfactant was used as a carbon source by all bacteria. High degree of PAHs degradation (>90%) was reached in 15 days in all experiments. Toxicity increased at early times using Tween-80 but decreased to low levels in a short time after the firsts 24 h. On the other hand, Triton X-100 and Tergitol NP-10 were not biodegraded and toxicity kept constant along time. However, PAHs-degradation rate was higher, especially by the action of Enterobacter sp. with Tween-80 or Triton X-100. Control experiments performed without surfactant showed a significant decrease in biomass growth rate with a subsequent loss of biodegradation activity likely due to a reduced solubility and bioavailability of PAHs in absence of surfactant.     

Microbiological aspects of surfactant use for biological soil remediation

Biodegradation of hydrophobic organic compounds in polluted soil is a process involving interactions among soil particles, pollutants, water, and micro-organisms. Surface-active agents or surfactants are compounds that may affect these interactions, and the use of these compounds may be a means of overcoming the problem of limited bioavailability of hydrophobic organic pollutants in biological soil remediation. The effects of surfactants on the physiology of micro-organisms range from inhibition of growth due to surfactant toxicity to stimulation of growth caused by the use of surfactants as a co-substrate. The most important effect of surfactants on the interactions among soil and pollutant is stimulation of mass transport of the pollutant from the soil to the aqueous phase. This can be caused by three different mechanisms: emulsification of liquid pollutant, micellar solubilisation, and facilitated transport. The importance of these mechanisms with respect to the effect of surfactants on bioavailability is reviewed for hydrophobic organic pollutants present in different physical states. The complexity of the effect of surfactants on pollutant bioavailability is reflected by the results in the literature, which range from stimulation to inhibition of desorption and biodegradation of polluting compounds. No general trends can be found in these results. Therefore, more research is necessary to make the application of surfactants a standard tool in biological soil remediation. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Surfactant-Enhanced Biodegradation of a PAH in Soil Slurry Reactors

This study focuses on finding operational regimes for surfactant-enhanced biodegradation. Biodegradation of phenanthrene as a model poly cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) was studied in soil slurry reactors in the presence and absence of a Triton N-101 surfactant solution. Results showed that the presence of surfactant slowed the initial biodegradation rate of phenanthrene, but increased the total mass of phenanthrene degraded over a four day period by 30%. A mathematical model was developed which simulates the biodegradation of low solubility hydrocarbons in the presence of soils and surfactants by accounting for the hydrocarbon bioavailability in different phases of the system. The model was able to simulate the experimental results using parameters and rate coefficients that were obtained through independent experiments.

The model was used to investigate the effect of different operating conditions on the overall biodegradation of phenanthrene. Simulation results showed that there is a system-specific optimum surfactant concentration range, beyond which bioremediation is hindered. The results also indicate that for a given system, the optimal surfactant concentration can be determined from simple sorption and solubility equilibrium experiments. Finally, a metric is presented for determining the potential effectiveness of surfactant-enhanced bioremediation based on the Monod and bioavailability parameters for a given system.     

Evaluation of bacterial strategies to promote the bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs)-degrading bacteria may enhance the bioavailability of PAHs by excreting biosurfactants, by production of extracellular polymeric substances, or by forming biofilms. We tested these hypotheses in pure cultures of PAHs-degrading bacterial strains. Most of the strains did not substantially reduce the surface tension when grown on PAHs in liquid shaken cultures. Thus, pseudo-solubilization of PAHs in biosurfactant micelles seems not to be a general strategy for these isolates to enhance PAHs-bioavailability. Three semi-colloid Sphingomonas polysaccharides all increased the solubility of PAHs (Gellan 1.3- to 5.4-fold, Welan 1.8- to 6.0-fold and Rhamsan 2.4- to 9.0-fold). The increases were most pronounced for the more hydrophobic PAHs. The polysaccharide-sorbed PAHs were bioavailable. Mineralization rates of 9-[14C]-phenanthrene and 3-[14C]-fluoranthene by Sphingobium EPA505, were similar with and without sphingans, indicating that mass-transfer rates from PAHs crystals to the bulk liquid were unaffected by the polysaccharides. Biofilm formation on PAHs crystals may favor the diffusive mass transfer of PAHs from crystals to the bacterial cells. A majority of the PAHs-degraders tested formed biofilms in microtiter wells coated with PAHs crystals. For strains capable of growing on different PAHs; the more soluble the PAHs, the lower the percentage of cells attached. Biofilm formation on PAHs-sources was the predominant mechanism among the tested bacteria to overcome mass transfer limitations when growing on poorly soluble PAHs.