Unveiling the Occurrence and Non-Negligible Role of Amino Sugars in Waste Activated Sludge Fermentation by an Enriched Chitin-Degradation Consortium

Polysaccharides in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) can form a hybrid matrix network with proteins, impeding waste-activated sludge (WAS) fermentation. Amino sugars, such as N-acetyl-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) polymers and sialic acid, are the non-negligible components in the EPS of aerobic granules or biofilm. However, the occurrence of amino sugars in WAS and their degradation remains unclear. Thus, amino sugars (∼6.0%) in WAS were revealed, and the genera of Lactococcus and Zoogloea were identified for the first time. Chitin was used as the substrate to enrich a chitin-degrading consortium (CDC). The COD balances for methane production ranged from 83.3 and 95.1%. Chitin was gradually converted to oligosaccharides and GlcNAc after dosing with the extracellular enzyme. After doing enriched CDC in WAS, the final methane production markedly increased to 60.4 ± 0.6 mL, reflecting an increase of ∼62%. Four model substrates of amino sugars (GlcNAc and sialic acid) and polysaccharides (cellulose and dextran) could be used by CDC. Treponema (34.3%) was identified as the core bacterium via excreting chitinases (EC 3.2.1.14) and N-acetyl-glucosaminidases (EC 3.2.1.52), especially the genetic abundance of chitinases in CDC was 2.5 times higher than that of WAS. Thus, this study provides an elegant method for the utilization of amino sugar-enriched organics.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

Enthalten in:

Environmental science & technology - 58(2024), 4 vom: 30. Jan., Seite 1966-1975

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Xiao-Mei [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Si-Di [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Si-Jie [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yi-Bo [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Xing-Chen [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Ye-Chao [VerfasserIn]
Li, Wen-Tao [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yong-Ze [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jianrong [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Raymond Jianxiong [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Kun [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Fang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

1398-61-4
Amino Sugars
Amino sugars
Chitin
Chitin-degrading consortium
Chitinases
EC 3.2.1.14
GZP2782OP0
Journal Article
Methane
Methane production
N-Acetylneuraminic Acid
OP0UW79H66
Polysaccharides
Sewage
Treponema
Waste activated sludge

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Date Completed 31.01.2024

Date Revised 31.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.est.3c09302

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366436783