Biotransformation of polychlorinated biphenyls in St. Lawrence River sediments: reductive dechlorination and dechlorinating microbial populations

Author:

Cho Y -C,Kim J,Sokol R C,Rhee G -Y

Abstract

Polychlorinated biphenyl dechlorinating microbial populations in St. Lawrence River sediments were fractionated and estimated based on the dechlorination pattern using a combination of serial dilution and most probable number techniques. Two distinctive dechlorination patterns were found in most probable number sediments spiked with Aroclor 1248. A high-dilution inoculum decreased the average number of chlorines per biphenyl from 4.0 to 3.4 but was unable to dechlorinate meta-substituted congeners consisting mainly of 2,5,2',5'-, 2,4,2',5'-, and 2,5,2'-chlorobiphenyl (pattern B). On the other hand, a low-dilution inoculum did dechlorinate the meta-rich congeners and reduced the average number of chlorines to 2.9 (pattern A). These results indicate that there are at least two populations. While pattern B was produced by pattern B producing dechlorinators, pattern A was produced by a combination of pattern B producers plus another population that dechlorinates the meta-substituted congeners. When the population size was calculated based on the frequency of respective dechlorination patterns, the populations yielding pattern B were approximately 2.4 × 106cells·g dry weight sediment-1whereas the dechlorinators of the meta-rich congeners were two orders of magnitude less at 3.5 × 104cells·g dry weight sediment-1. Despite lower numbers, these meta-dechlorinators in pattern A increased the overall dechlorination by almost twofold.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

Aquatic Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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