PMID- 18043635 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080110 LR - 20151013 IS - 1751-7362 (Print) IS - 1751-7362 (Linking) VI - 1 IP - 3 DP - 2007 Jul TI - Characterization of filamentous bacteria, belonging to candidate phylum KSB3, that are associated with bulking in methanogenic granular sludges. PG - 246-55 AB - A fatal bulking phenomenon was found to occur occasionally in the methanogenic granular sludge of a mesophilic (35-40 degrees C), full-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor treating organic wastewater discharged from a sugar manufacturing factory. A vast number of filamentous cells were observed in the bulking sludge that were morphologically distinct from the previously recognized anaerobic bulking agent Anaerolinea thermophila. 16S rRNA gene-based analyses of the microbial populations in the bulking sludge revealed that the dominant filamentous organisms were members of proposed candidate bacterial phylum, KSB3. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of the healthy sludge granules showed that the KSB3 filaments were the dominant granule surface population suggesting that they are fundamental constituents of the sludge granules and that they occasionally overgrow in the reactor, possibly triggering the filamentous bulking. We surveyed 10 additional mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic sludges for the presence and diversity of KSB3 populations. Bacteria closely related to the characterized KSB3 filaments were present in two types of mesophilically grown UASB sludge granules treating actual wastewater discharged from sugar-processing industries. FAU - Yamada, Takeshi AU - Yamada T AD - Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. FAU - Yamauchi, Toshihiro AU - Yamauchi T FAU - Shiraishi, Koji AU - Shiraishi K FAU - Hugenholtz, Philip AU - Hugenholtz P FAU - Ohashi, Akiyoshi AU - Ohashi A FAU - Harada, Hideki AU - Harada H FAU - Kamagata, Yoichi AU - Kamagata Y FAU - Nakamura, Kazunori AU - Nakamura K FAU - Sekiguchi, Yuji AU - Sekiguchi Y LA - eng SI - GENBANK/AB218870 SI - GENBANK/AB218871 SI - GENBANK/AB218872 SI - GENBANK/AB218873 SI - GENBANK/AB218874 SI - GENBANK/AB218875 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20070531 PL - England TA - ISME J JT - The ISME journal JID - 101301086 RN - 0 (DNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (DNA, Ribosomal) RN - 0 (Industrial Waste) RN - 0 (RNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) RN - 0 (Sewage) SB - IM MH - Anaerobiosis MH - Bacteria/*classification/*genetics/isolation & purification MH - Bioreactors/microbiology MH - DNA, Bacterial/chemistry/genetics MH - DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry/genetics MH - Genes, rRNA MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Industrial Waste MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Phylogeny MH - RNA, Bacterial/genetics MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid MH - Sewage/*microbiology MH - Waste Disposal, Fluid/methods MH - Water Purification/methods EDAT- 2007/11/29 09:00 MHDA- 2008/01/11 09:00 CRDT- 2007/11/29 09:00 PHST- 2007/11/29 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/01/11 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/11/29 09:00 [entrez] AID - ismej200728 [pii] AID - 10.1038/ismej.2007.28 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ISME J. 2007 Jul;1(3):246-55. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2007.28. Epub 2007 May 31.