18 results on '"Fava, Fabio"'
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2. Biotechnological applications of extremophiles, extremozymes and extremolytes.
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Raddadi, Noura, Cherif, Ameur, Daffonchio, Daniele, Neifar, Mohamed, and Fava, Fabio
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MICROBIOLOGY of extreme environments ,EXTREMOZYMES ,MICROBIAL biotechnology ,BIOECONOMICS ,PROKARYOTES ,MICROBIAL metabolites ,BIOCATALYSIS - Abstract
In the last decade, attention to extreme environments has increased because of interests to isolate previously unknown extremophilic microorganisms in pure culture and to profile their metabolites. Microorganisms that live in extreme environments produce extremozymes and extremolytes that have the potential to be valuable resources for the development of a bio-based economy through their application to white, red, and grey biotechnologies. Here, we provide an overview of extremophile ecology, and we review the most recent applications of microbial extremophiles and the extremozymes and extremolytes they produce to biotechnology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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3. The Most Important Bacillus Species in Biotechnology.
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Raddadi, Noura, Crotti, Elena, Rolli, Eleonora, Marasco, Ramona, Fava, Fabio, and Daffonchio, Daniele
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- 2012
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4. Uncertainty and Research Needs in the Area of the Biological Restoration of Contaminated Sediments.
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Reible, Danny, Lanczos, Tomas, Fava, Fabio, and Agathos, Spyros N.
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- 2006
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5. Biological Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments.
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Reible, Danny, Lanczos, Tomas, Fantroussi, Saïd, Agathos, Spiros N., Pieper, Dietmar H., Witzig, Robert, Cámara, Beatriz, Gabriel-Jürgens, Lotte, Junca, Howard, Zanaroli, Giulio, Fava, Fabio, Pérez-Jiménez, José R., Young, Lily Y., Hamonts, Kelly, Lookman, Richard, Maesen, Miranda, Diels, Ludo, Dejonghe, Winnie, Dijk, John, and Springael, Dirk
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Various approaches to clean contaminated aquatic environments have been proposed. In recent years, natural attenuation has received increasing attention and it is generally accepted that microorganisms are the principal mediators of the natural attenuation of many pollutants. However, the complexity of environmental systems such as sediments requires a multifaceted approach to understand microbial processes and their potential. This is even more so under in situ conditions, where the activity of pollutant degrading microorganisms is generally slow, partial and constrained spatially and/or temporally. Recent developments in molecular biology and genomics are offering tools to explore microbial processes at a level that encompasses the genetic characteristics of the local microbial players, culturable or not, as well as their organization into complex communities and their interactions both with each other and with the target chemicals. It is now possible to study microbes directly in their environments at the population level as well as at the single cell level and to link biology to geochemistry. Integrative knowledge from culture independent studies based on functional characters and assessment of the diversity and quantity of catabolic genes in response to pollution, will allow a deeper understanding of and a rational intervention in environmental processes. Moreover, the use of genomic libraries to retrieve genes from natural bacterial communities without cultivation will allow a breakthrough in accessing new microbial capabilities. In this chapter, the main features, advantages and limitations of these innovative approaches to the biomonitoring and analysis of intrinsic bioremediation potential of polluted environments and sediments are critically reviewed. Then, the potential of the same strategies in the integrated chemical, physical and biological monitoring and characterization of polluted sediments subjected to natural decontamination is shown through the description of the main results of case studies performed on a) polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated marine sediments of the Porto Marghera area of Venice Lagoon (Italy) in which the occurrence of PCB-reductive dechlorination processes has been demonstrated for the first time in the literature, b) sediments contaminated by chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons (CAHs) collected from different positions of the eutrophic river Zenne (Vilvoorde, Belgium), where they have been found to act as a natural biobarrier for the CAHs occurring in the groundwater that is passing through the sediment zone, hereby reducing the risk of surface water contamination, and c) other environmental contaminated systems subjected to ex-situ and in situ active bioremediation, where these processes are described on the basis of the experience accumulated in pilot and real-life systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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6. Development of an attached-growth process for the on-site bioremediation of an aquifer polluted by chlorinated solvents.
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Frascari, Dario, Bucchi, Giacomo, Doria, Francesco, Rosato, Antonella, Tavanaie, Nasrin, Salviulo, Raffaele, Ciavarelli, Roberta, Pinelli, Davide, Fraraccio, Serena, Zanaroli, Giulio, and Fava, Fabio
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BIOREMEDIATION ,AQUIFERS ,WATER pollution ,CHLORINATION ,SOLVENTS ,TETRACHLOROETHANE ,BIODEGRADATION - Abstract
A procedure for the design of an aerobic cometabolic process for the on-site degradation of chlorinated solvents in a packed bed reactor was developed using groundwater from an aquifer contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE) and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane (TeCA). The work led to the selection of butane among five tested growth substrates, and to the development and characterization from the site's indigenous biomass of a suspended-cell consortium capable to degrade TCE (first order constant: 96 L g day at 30 °C and 4.3 L g day at 15 °C) with a 90 % mineralization of the organic chlorine. The consortium immobilization had strong effects on the butane and TCE degradation rates. The microbial community structure was slightly changed by a temperature shift from 30 to 15 °C, but remarkably affected by biomass adhesion. Given the higher TCE normalized degradation rate (0.59 day at 15 °C) and attached biomass concentration (0.13 g L at 15 °C) attained, the porous ceramic carrier Biomax was selected as the best option for the packed bed reactor process. The low TeCA degradation rate exhibited by the developed consortium suggested the inclusion of a chemical pre-treatment based on the TeCA to TCE conversion via β-elimination, a very fast reaction at alkaline pH. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this represents the first attempt to develop a procedure for the development of a packed bed reactor process for the aerobic cometabolism of chlorinated solvents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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7. Biodegradation of low-ethoxylated nonylphenols in a bioreactor packed with a new ceramic support (Vukopor ® S10).
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Sciubba, Luigi, Bertin, Lorenzo, Todaro, Daniela, Bettini, Cristina, Fava, Fabio, and Di Gioia, Diana
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BIODEGRADATION ,ETHOXYLATION ,NONYLPHENOL ,BIOREACTORS ,CERAMIC materials ,MIXTURES ,MICROBIOLOGY - Abstract
This work was aimed at studying the possibility of biodegrading 4-nonylphenol and low ethoxylated nonylphenol mixtures, which are particularly recalcitrant to microbial degradation, by employing a biofilm reactor packed with a ceramic support (Vukopor® S10). A selected microbial consortium (Consortium A) was used to colonize the support. 4-Nonylphenol and ethoxylated nonylphenol degradation and mineralization capabilities were studied both in batch and continuous mode. The results showed that Vukopor® S10 was able to be colonized by an active biofilm for the degradation of the target pollutants with the reactor operating both in batch and continuous mode. On the other hand, pollutant adsorption on the support was negligible. FISH showed equal proportion of Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria in the Igepal CO-520 degrading reactor. A shift towards high proportion of Gammaproteobacteria was observed by supplying Igepal CO-210. PCR-density gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analyses also evidenced that the biofilm evolved with time by changing the mixture applied and that Proteobacteria were the most represented phylum in the biofilm. Taken together, the data obtained provide a strong indication that the biofilm reactor packed with Vukopor® S10 and inoculated with Consortium A could potentially be used to develop a technology for the decontamination of 4-nonylphenol and low ethoxylated nonylphenol polluted effluents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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8. ULIXES, unravelling and exploiting Mediterranean Sea microbial diversity and ecology for xenobiotics' and pollutants' clean up.
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Daffonchio, Daniele, Mapelli, Francesca, Cherif, Ameur, Malkawi, Hanan, Yakimov, Michail, Abdel-Fattah, Yasser, Blaghen, Mohamed, Golyshin, Peter, Ferrer, Manuel, Kalogerakis, Nicolas, Boon, Nico, Magagnini, Mirko, and Fava, Fabio
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XENOBIOTICS ,PETROLEUM refining ,PETROLEUM transportation ,POLLUTANTS ,UNDERGROUND areas - Abstract
The civilizations in the Mediterranean Sea have deeply changed the local environment, especially with the extraction of subsurface oil and gas, their refinery and transportation. Major environmental impacts are affecting all the sides of the basin with actual and potential natural and socio-economic problems. Events like the recent BP's oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico would have a tremendous impact on a close basin like the Mediterranean Sea. The recently EU-funded project ULIXES () aims to unravel, categorize, catalogue, exploit and manage the microbial diversity available in the Mediterranean Sea for addressing bioremediation of polluted marine sites. The rationale of the project is based on the multiple diverse environmental niches of the Mediterranean Sea and the huge range of microorganisms inhabiting therein. Microbial consortia and their ecology, their components or products are used for designing novel pollutant- and site-tailored bioremediation approaches. ULIXES exploits microbial resource mining by the isolation of novel microorganisms as well as by novel advanced 'meta-omics' technologies for solving pollution of three major high priority pollutant classes, petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated compounds and heavy metals. A network of twelve European and Southern Mediterranean partners is exploring the microbial diversity and ecology associated to a large set of polluted environmental matrices including seashore sands, lagoons, harbors and deep-sea sediments, oil tanker shipwreck sites, as well as coastal and deep sea natural sites where hydrocarbon seepages occur. The mined collections are exploited for developing novel bioremediation processes to be tested in ex situ and in situ field bioremediation trials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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9. Characterization of 4-nonylphenol-degrading bacterial consortium obtained from a textile wastewater pretreatment plant.
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Di Gioia, Diana, Salvadori, Laura, Zanaroli, Giulio, Coppini, Ester, Fava, Fabio, and Barberio, Claudia
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BACTERIA ,WASTEWATER treatment ,NONYLPHENOL ,ETHOXYLATES ,BIODEGRADATION ,SEWAGE sludge ,METABOLITES ,BIOTECHNOLOGY ,RIBOSOMES - Abstract
4-Nonylphenol (4-NP) isomers are toxic and recalcitrant compounds often resulting, together with short-chain ethoxylated nonylphenol (NP nEO, where n is the number of ethylene oxide units), from NP nEO biodegradation in conventional activated sludge plants. In this work, a microbial consortium, defined as Consortium A, capable of removing 100 mg/L of 4-NP with no accumulation of metabolites with aromatic moiety was isolated from textile wastewaters after enrichment with 4-NP. The consortium showed remarkable degradation activities toward several short-chain NP nEO congeners. Culture-dependent techniques were used to isolate from the consortium twenty-six strains assigned to seven different amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis groups. Two- and three-member cocultures were prepared with the strains showing highest 4-NP-degrading capabilities, but neither the single strains nor the cocultures were as efficient in 4-NP degradation as Consortium A. FISH was used to characterize the microbial composition of Consortium A: it evidenced a strong occurrence of Proteobacteria and, in particular, of Gammaproteobacteria along with a relevant stability of the culture. Therefore, the isolated consortium has the potential of being used in the development of a biotechnological process for the tertiary treatment of effluents of activated sludge plants fed with NP nEO-contaminated wastewaters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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10. Degradation of Low-Ethoxylated Nonylphenols by a Stenotrophomonas Strain and Development of New Phylogenetic Probes for Stenotrophomonas spp. Detection.
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Salvadori, Laura, Di Gioia, Diana, Fava, Fabio, and Barberio, Claudia
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ANAEROBIC bacteria ,BACTERIA ,PHYLOGENY ,MICROBIAL genetics ,NONYLPHENOL - Abstract
An aerobic bacterium (BCc6), isolated from nonylphenol polyethoxylates (NPEOs)-contaminated sludge, was shown to be capable of degrading low-ethoxylated NPEO mixtures. Sequencing of 16S rRNA gene (rDNA) showed that it clustered with Stenotrophomonas nitritireducens. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), performed on BCc6 strain and on the previously isolated Stenotrophomonas BCaL2, also involved in NPEO degradation but clustering with S. maltophilia, showed that strain BCc6 did not hybridize with the S. maltophilia-specific probe, and neither of the two strains hybridized with probes targeted to the Gammaproteobacteria site, rDNA analyses performed on the two strains evidenced two new polymorphisms, the first one at the 23S rRNA Gammaproteobacteria site, characterizing the known members of the Stenotrophomonas genus, and the other one at the 16S rRNA level, characteristic of S. nitritireducens. Two new FISH probes were designed accordingly, tested on control bacterial cultures, and employed for in situ monitoring of Stenotrophomonas representatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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11. Characterization of four olive-mill-wastewater indigenous bacterial strains capable of aerobically degrading hydroxylated and methoxylated monocyclic aromatic compounds.
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Di Gioia, Diana, Barberio, Claudia, Spagnesi, Sonia, Marchetti, Leonardo, and Fava, Fabio
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AEROBIC bacteria ,BIODEGRADATION ,HYDROXYLATION ,AROMATIC compounds ,RALSTONIA ,PSEUDOMONAS ,BENZOIC acid ,ACRYLIC acid - Abstract
Seven aerobic bacterial strains capable of degrading several of the monocyclic aromatic compounds occurring in the phenolic fraction of olive-mill wastewaters (OMWs) were isolated from an Italian OMW. The results of the 16S rDNA restriction analysis evidenced that these strains are distributed among four different groups. One strain of each group was taxonomically characterized by sequencing the amplified 16S rDNA, and the four strains were assigned to the genera Comamonas (strain AV1A), Ralstonia (strain AV5BG), Pseudomonas (strain AV2A) and Sphingomonas (strain AV6C). The four strains, when checked for the ability to degrade nine monocyclic aromatic compounds abundant in OMWs, were found to significantly metabolize five to eight of them, both as resting cells and growing cells. Specific enzyme analyses of the same selected strains showed: (1) the occurrence of O-demethylating activities towards four methoxylated mono-aromatic acids in three of the four studied strains (strains AV1A, AV5BG and AV6C), (2) ring-cleavage activity towards protocatechuic acid in all of the strains, and (3) a ring-cleavage activity towards catechol in strain AV6C. The isolates described here exhibit a biodegradation potential towards monocyclic aromatic compounds of OMWs that is markedly broader and higher than that displayed by other aerobic bacteria described previously. These features make them excellent candidates for removing the low-molecular-weight phenolic compounds persisting in the effluent following anaerobic digestion of OMWs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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12. Dehalogenation of dichloroethene in a contaminated soil: fatty acids and alcohols as electron donors and an apparent requirement for tetrachloroethene.
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Villarante, Nelson R., Armenante, Piero M., Quibuyen, Titos A. O., Fava, Fabio, and Kafkewitz, David
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HALOGENATION ,DICHLOROETHYLENE ,SOIL pollution ,FATTY acids ,ALCOHOL ,ELECTRON donor-acceptor complexes - Abstract
Environmental soil contamination at an industrial site in Marion, Ohio (USA) with tetrachloroethene (perchloroethene, PCE) resulted in residual cis-1, 2-dichloroethene (DCE) contamination that had not declined after more than 15 years. Microcosm slurries containing 2.6% soil from this site were supplemented with different electron donors, i.e., individual fatty acids or alcohols. None of the microcosms supported complete DCE dechlorination, unless PCE was added to the microcosm at initiation. The addition of fresh PCE resulted in the dehalogenation of PCE to DCE in the microcosms supplemented with fatty acids having an even number of carbon atoms (acetate, butyrate, and caproate), but not in those with an odd number of carbon atoms (formate, propionate, and valerate), where negligible or no activity was detected. No significant further DCE degradation was observed in any of the microcosms supplied with fatty acids as electron donors. Microcosms supplemented with freshly added PCE bioconverted PCE to DCE and completely dehalogenated both the ex-novo and soil-supplied DCE within 60 days, but only if alcohols having an even number of carbon atoms (ethanol or butanol) were also added as electron donors. Odd-numbered alcohols either did not produce dehalogenation (as with methanol) or only dehalogenated PCE to DCE (as with propanol). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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13. Dechlorination of Fenclor 54 and of a synthetic mixture of polychlorinated biphenyls by anaerobic microorganisms.
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Fava, Fabio, Cinti, Sergio, and Marchetti, Leonardo
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Microorganisms obtained from a contaminated experimental soil were found to reductively dechlorinate the polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) of ex-commercial Fenclor 54 and of a synthetic mixture of single congeners, under laboratory anaerobic conditions. The dechlorination rate and extent tended to increase as the chlorination degree of F 54 congeners increased. Several penta-chlorinated congeners temporarily accumulated during the final period of incubation. Dechlorination occurred primarily from the meta and para positions while ortho-sustituted congeners accumulated in the medium during incubation. The dechlorination pattern observed with these unacclimated microorganisms in both PCB mixtures could be only partially compared to patterns reported in the literature. The low product yield deriving from reductive dechlorination of PCBs, i.e. di-and tri-chlorinated biphenyls, and the slow rate of PCB biotransformation can be attributed to a lower dehalogenation capability of artificially contaminated soil microorganisms and, perhaps, also to the inadequacy of the adopted anaerobic medium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1993
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14. Degradation and mineralization of 3-chlorobiphenyl by a mixed aerobic bacterial culture.
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Fava, Fabio and Marchetti, Leonardo
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A mixed bacterial culture obtained from polychlorinated-biphenyl-contaminated river sediments proved capable of degrading 3-chlorobiphenyl (3-CB) under aerobic laboratory conditions. Almost total mineralization of 150 mg/l of 3-CB occurred when, after 3 days of incubation, the mineral medium was supplied with benzoic acid as a carbon source. Two strains of Pseudomonas capable of degrading the substrate to 3-chlorobenzoic acid and a strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens capable of co-metabolizing this metabolite were selected from the mixed culture. A nearly stoichiometric amount of chloride, which defines the percentage of total mineralization, was eliminated during mixed culture growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1991
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15. Use of protoplast fusion to introduce methionine overproduction into Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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Brigidi, Patrizia, Matteuzzi, Diego, and Fava, Fabio
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dl-Ethionine-resistant mutants of Saccharomyces uvarum ATCC 26602 were found to overproduce exogenous l-methionine. dl-Ethionine-resistant mutant ER 108, carrying a mutation to chloramphenicol resistance was converted to petite form, and protoplasts obtained from it were fused with protoplasts from antibiotic-sensitive S. cerevisiae X2928 carrying six auxotrophies. The resulting fusants maintained four auxotrophies and were capable of overproducing l-methionine. These fusants were stable after ten passages on complete medium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1988
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16. Assessment of genetic diversity and bioremediation potential of pseudomonads isolated from pesticide-contaminated artichoke farm soils.
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Hassen, Wafa, Neifar, Mohamed, Cherif, Hanene, Mahjoubi, Mouna, Souissi, Yasmine, Raddadi, Noura, Fava, Fabio, and Cherif, Ameur
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BIOREMEDIATION ,PESTICIDES ,PSEUDOMONAS ,DIMETHOATE ,PENTACHLOROPHENOL - Abstract
A total of 68 dimethoate and pentachlorophenol-tolerant rhizobacteria, isolated from a pesticide-contaminated agricultural soil, have been identified and typed by means of 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacers analysis (ITS-PCR), 16S rRNA gene sequencing and by repetitive extragenic palindromic (BOX-PCR). The majority of bacterial isolates (84.31%) belonged to Proteobacteria (with a predominance of Gammaproteobacteria, 72.54%), while the remaining isolates were affiliated with Firmicutes (9.80%), Bacteroidetes (1.96%) and Actinobacteria (3.92%). The pesticide-tolerant bacterial isolates belonged to 11 genera, namely Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Acinetobacter, Flavobacterium, Comamonas, Achromobacter, Rhodococcus, Ochrobactrum, Aquamicrobium, Bordetella and Microbacterium. Within the well-represented genus Pseudomonas (n = 36), the most common species was Pseudomonas putida (n = 32). The efficacy of the selected strain, Pseudomonas putida S148, was further investigated for biodegradation of pentachlorophenol (PCP) in minimal medium, when used as a sole carbon and energy source. At an initial concentration of 100 mg/L, P. putida S148 degraded 91% of PCP after 7 days. GC-MS analyses revealed the formation of tetrachlorohydroquinone, tri- and di-chlorophenols as biodechlorination products in PCP remediation experiments. The toxicity estimation showed that 50% lethal concentration (LC50) and 50% growth inhibition concentration (IGC50) obtained values for the major identified compounds (2,3,4,6 tetrachlorophenol, 2,3,5,6 tetrachlorophenol and tetrachlorohydroquinone) were higher than those estimated for the PCP indicating that the metabolites are less toxic than the original compound for those specific organisms. S148 strain could be added to pesticide-contaminated agricultural soils as a bacterial inoculant for its potential to improve soil quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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17. Genomic and phenotypic characterization of the species Acinetobacter venetianus.
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Fondi, Marco, Maida, Isabel, Perrin, Elena, Orlandini, Valerio, La Torre, Laura, Bosi, Emanuele, Negroni, Andrea, Zanaroli, Giulio, Fava, Fabio, Decorosi, Francesca, Giovannetti, Luciana, Viti, Carlo, Vaneechoutte, Mario, Dijkshoorn, Lenie, and Fani, Renato
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- 2016
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18. Environmental conditions and community evenness determine the outcome of biological invasion.
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De Roy, Karen, Marzorati, Massimo, Negroni, Andrea, Thas, Olivier, Balloi, Annalisa, Fava, Fabio, Verstraete, Willy, Daffonchio, Daniele, and Boon, Nico
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Biological invasion is widely studied, however, conclusions on the outcome of this process mainly originate from observations in systems that leave a large number of experimental variables uncontrolled. Here using a fully controlled system consisting of assembled bacterial communities, we evaluate the degree of invasion and the effect on the community functionality in relation to the initial community evenness under specific environmental stressors. We show that evenness influences the level of invasion and that the introduced species can promote functionality under stress. The evenness-invasibility relationship is negative in the absence and neutral in the presence of stress. Under these conditions, the introduced species is able to maintain the functionality of uneven communities. These results indicate that communities, initially having the same genetic background, in the presence of the same invader, react in a different way with respect to invasibility and functionality depending on specific environmental conditions and community evenness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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