凤眼莲净化燕山石油化工废水的研究Ⅱ．静态净化试验

本文讨论了凤眼莲净化塘中COD、BOD_5、酚、氨氮、芳烃、油和硫化物含量下降趋势及pH、电导率和溶解氧的变化过程。COD/BOD_5比值的峰形曲线指示出废水的净化速率的变化。在试验条件下,COD下降过程基本上符合指数函数的数学模型:COD=A·e~(-B·D),COD表面净化率P_s值为9.1g/m~2·d。凤眼莲塘特定的理化和生物环境有利于石油化工废水的净化。净化塘中各类微生物、尤其是根部微生物,也起了相当重要的作用。     

A paleoenvironmental standard section for Early Ilerdian tropical carbonate factories (Corbieres, France; Pyrenees, Spain)

Early Ilerdian (Early Eocene, Shallow Benthic Zones 5 and 6) carbonate systems of the Pyrenees shelf were deposited after a time of severe climatic (‘Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, PETM’) and phylogenetic (‘Larger Foraminifer Turnover’) changes. They reflect the radiation of nummulitid, alveolinid, and orbitolitid larger foraminifera after remarkable biotic changes at the end of the Paleocene, and announce their subsequent flourishing in the Middle Eocene.A paleoenvironmental model for tropical carbonate environments of this particular time interval is provided herein. During the Early Ilerdian, the inner and middle ramp deposits from Minerve, Campo and Serraduy revealed the end-member of a tropical carbonate factory with carbonate production dominated by the end-members of biotically (photo-autotrophic skeletal) controlled and biotically induced carbonate precipitation. Inner platform environments are dominated by alveolinids and in part by orbitolitids, middle platform environments are dominated by nummulitids. Corals are present, but they do not form reefs, which is a typical feature for the Eocene. Nummulite shoal complexes, which are well-known from the Middle Eocene are also absent during the studied Early Ilerdian interval, which may reflect the early evolutionary stage of this group.     

Bacterial Diversity and Biogeochemical Processes of Oil-Contaminated Groundwater,Baoding, North China

A total of 43 groundwater samples were collected from 9 multimonitoring wells at a petrochemical site, Baoding City, North China, from June 2008 to December 2009 to investigate the biogeochemical processes and/or bacterial conmmunity using both culture-dependent and -independent methods. The results showed that aromatic hydrocarbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons were the major pollutants in the groundwater. Denitrification and iron reduction might be the main biogeochemical processes in the aquifers at this site, which seemed to transform from denitrification-dominated to iron reduction-dominated in some sections. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) revealed that the dominant bacterial groups of the groundwater were related to some oil-degrading bacteria, which can grow under denitrifying, iron-reducing and sulfate-reducing anaerobic conditions. In some serious contaminated groundwater niches, there might be sulfur cycles, as sulfur oxidizer was also abundant, which was further confirmed by 16S rRNA gene cloning analysis. The operational taxonomic units (OTUs) that highly related to Pseudomonas sp., Hydrogenophaga sp., Sphingomonas sp., Ferribacterium sp. and Sulfuricurvum Kujiense etc. were predominant in the groundwater contaminated by chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHCs), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) and/or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), respectively. Biodiversity seemed to be undermined by oil contamination, and varied with seasons. The bacterial community in the contaminated groundwater was largely determined by the groundwater geochemistry.     

The cell factory approach toward biotechnological production of high-value chitosan oligomers and their derivatives: an update

Chitin is one of the most abundant renewable resources, and chitosans, the partially deacetylated derivatives of chitin, are among the most promising functional biopolymers, with superior material properties and versatile biological functionalities. Elucidating molecular structure–function relationships and cellular modes of action of chitosans, however, it is challenging due to the micro-heterogeneity and structural complexity of polysaccharides. Lately, it has become apparent that many of the biological activities of chitosan polymers, such as in agricultural plant disease protection or in mediating scar-free wound healing, may be attributed to oligomeric break-down products generated by the action of chitosanolytic hydrolases present in the target tissues, such as human chitotriosidase. Consequently, the focus of current research is shifting toward chitosan oligomers so that the availability of well-defined chitosan oligosaccharides (COS) becomes a bottleneck. Well-known ways of producing COS use physical and/or chemical means for the partial depolymerization of chitosan polymers, typically leading to broad mixtures of COS varying in their degrees of polymerization (DP) and acetylation (DA), and with more or less random patterns of acetylation (PAs). Even after chromatographic separation according to DP and DA, such mixtures are of limited value to elucidate structure–function relationships and modes of action. More recently, enzymatic means using chitinases and/or chitosanases, and sometimes chitin deacetylases, have been proposed as these can be more tightly controlled and yield slightly better defined mixtures of COS. An alternative would be chemical synthesis of COS which in principle would allow for full structural control, but protocols for it are lengthy, costly, and not yet well developed, and yields are low. Synthetic biology now allows to develop today’s in vitro bio-refinery approaches into in vivo cell factory approaches for the biotechnological production of defined COS using recombinant microbial strains expressing chitin oligomer synthases and chitin oligomer deacetylases. In this review, we will describe the state-of-the-art of this cell factory approach, as a basis for upcoming developments. We will briefly describe traditional chemical protocols and enzymatic production of COS as a background to the more detailed presentation of what has been achieved through in vivo biosynthesis. We will only briefly describe those as a background to the more detailed presentation of what has been achieved through in vivo biosynthesis. We will also touch on the production of COS derivatives that has been achieved in this way, as these oligomers open up another plethora of potential applications when used as building blocks for defined biomaterials.     

Engineering of microorganisms for the production of biofuels and perspectives based on systems metabolic engineering approaches

The increasing oil price and environmental concerns caused by the use of fossil fuel have renewed our interest in utilizing biomass as a sustainable resource for the production of biofuel. It is however essential to develop high performance microbes that are capable of producing biofuels with very high efficiency in order to compete with the fossil fuel. Recently, the strategies for developing microbial strains by systems metabolic engineering, which can be considered as metabolic engineering integrated with systems biology and synthetic biology, have been developed. Systems metabolic engineering allows successful development of microbes that are capable of producing several different biofuels including bioethanol, biobutanol, alkane, and biodiesel, and even hydrogen. In this review, the approaches employed to develop efficient biofuel producers by metabolic engineering and systems metabolic engineering approaches are reviewed with relevant example cases. It is expected that systems metabolic engineering will be employed as an essential strategy for the development of microbial strains for industrial applications.     

蓝细菌细胞工厂合成聚合物单体的研究进展

蓝细菌是当前合成生物学研究的热门底盘生物之一,是光合自养底盘微生物的典型代表.随着化石资源的逐渐枯竭和碳排放所导致的全球变暖问题的加剧,以CO2为碳源的蓝细菌细胞工厂的研究又迎来了一次新的浪潮.长期以来,人们对于蓝细菌细胞工厂的关注点主要是在生物能源的生产,比如液体燃料及氢气等.蓝细菌细胞工厂研究的主要瓶颈之一是其低效...     

毕赤酵母细胞工厂工程化改造与应用

毕赤酵母作为细胞工厂在小分子代谢产物发酵和蛋白制品生物合成中扮演着重要角色,具有极其重要的工业应用价值。随着CRISPR/Cas9等新型编辑工具的开发和应用,对毕赤酵母细胞工厂进行多基因高效率的工程化改造已成为可能。本文首先对毕赤酵母工程化改造的遗传操作技术和目标方向进行了归纳总结,其次介绍了毕赤酵母作为细胞工厂的应用现状,同时探讨了毕赤酵母细胞工厂的优点及缺陷,并对其发展方向作出展望;以期为未来的毕赤酵母工程化改造研究提供参考和启示,推动毕赤酵母细胞工厂在生物产业中的创新应用。     

工业生物技术创新与发展 —“中国工业生物技术发展高峰论坛·2008”专刊序言

资源匮乏、能源短缺和环境污染日趋恶化等现实问题,已经成为社会可持续发展的巨大障碍。工业生物技术作为生物技术发展的第三次浪潮,是解决目前人类所面临的资源、能源与环境问题的有效途径之一,是工业可持续发展最有希望的技术。本期“中国工业生物技术发展高峰论坛·2008”专刊, 集中展现了我国工业生物技术专家学者在生物炼制和生物基化学品、微生物基因组学和生物信息学、代谢工程与药物研发、现代工业酶技术、生物炼制细胞工厂、生物催化与生物转化、工业生物过程技术以及工业微生物菌种的选育和改良等工业生物技术领域所取得的最新进展。希望通过专刊的出版, 更好地促进我国工业生物技术领域的交流和发展。     

Impact of systems biology on metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Industrial biotechnology is a rapidly growing field. With the increasing shift towards a bio-based economy, there is rising demand for developing efficient cell factories that can produce fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, materials, nutraceuticals, and even food ingredients. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is extremely well suited for this objective. As one of the most intensely studied eukaryotic model organisms, a rich density of knowledge detailing its genetics, biochemistry, physiology, and large-scale fermentation performance can be capitalized upon to enable a substantial increase in the industrial application of this yeast. Developments in genomics and high-throughput systems biology tools are enhancing one's ability to rapidly characterize cellular behaviour, which is valuable in the field of metabolic engineering where strain characterization is often the bottleneck in strain development programmes. Here, the impact of systems biology on metabolic engineering is reviewed and perspectives on the role of systems biology in the design of cell factories are given.