Author:
Zhang Dandan,Yu Huang,Yang Yuchun,Liu Fei,Li Mingyue,Huang Jie,Yu Yuhe,Wang Cheng,Jiang Feng,He Zhili,Yan Qingyun
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Increasing attention has recently been devoted to the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in eutrophic lakes due to its potential key functions in nitrogen (N) removal for eutrophication control. However, successful enrichment of anammox bacteria from lake sediments is still challenging, partly due to the ecological interactions between anammox and denitrifying bacteria across such enrichment with lake sediments remain unclear.
Results
This study thus designed to fill such knowledge gaps using bioreactors to enrich anammox bacteria with eutrophic lake sediments for more than 365 days. We continuously monitored the influent and effluent water, measured the anammox and denitrification efficiencies, quantified the anammox and denitrifying bacteria, as well as the related N cycling genes. We found that the maximum removal efficiencies of NH4+ and NO2− reached up to 85.92% and 95.34%, respectively. Accordingly, the diversity of anammox and denitrifying bacteria decreased significantly across the enrichment, and the relative dominant anammox (e.g., Candidatus Jettenia) and denitrifying bacteria (e.g., Thauera, Afipia) shifted considerably. The ecological cooperation between anammox and denitrifying bacteria tended to increase the microbial community stability, indicating a potential coupling between anammox and denitrifying bacteria. Moreover, the nirS-type denitrifiers showed stronger coupling with anammox bacteria than that of nirK-type denitrifiers during the enrichment. Functional potentials as depicted by metagenome sequencing confirmed the ecological interactions between anammox and denitrification. Metagenome-assembled genomes-based ecological model indicated that the most dominant denitrifiers could provide various materials such as amino acid, cofactors, and vitamin for anammox bacteria. Cross-feeding in anammox and denitrifying bacteria highlights the importance of microbial interactions for increasing the anammox N removal in eutrophic lakes.
Conclusions
This study greatly expands our understanding of cooperation mechanisms among anammox and denitrifying bacteria during the anammox enrichment with eutrophic lake sediments, which sheds new insights into N removal for controlling lake eutrophication.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Microbiology (medical),Microbiology
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