PMID- 21566367 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20110901 LR - 20220317 IS - 1342-6311 (Print) IS - 1342-6311 (Linking) VI - 24 IP - 2 DP - 2009 TI - Characterization of active microbes in a full-scale anaerobic fluidized bed reactor treating phenolic wastewater. PG - 144-53 AB - This study investigated the active microbial community in a full-scale granular activated carbon-anaerobic fluidized bed (GAC-AFB) reactor treating wastewater from the manufacturing of phenolic resin, using 16S rRNA-based molecular analyses. The results of cDNA from 16S rRNA revealed that Methanosaeta-related (83.9% of archaeal clones) and Syntrophorhabdaceae (formerly named Deltaproteobacteria group TA)-related (68.9% of bacterial clones) microorganisms were as the most predominant populations in the phenol-degrading GAC-AFB reactor. The high abundance of Syntrophorhabdaceae was supported by a terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis, which showed that a Syntrophorhabdaceae-like fragment of 119 bp (~80% of total fragments) was the most predominant phylotype. Furthermore, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses suggested that Syntrophus- and Chloroflexi-like cells were also in high abundance in the GAC biofilm. A non-layered structure of microorganisms was found in the GAC biofilm, where Methanosaeta (thick filamentous), Syntrophorhabdaceae (oval-shaped), Syntrophus (small rods) and Chloroflexi (thin-filamentous) were randomly distributed with high abundance. These findings greatly improve our understanding of the diversity and distribution of microbial populations in a full-scale mesophilic bioreactor treating an actual phenol-containing waste stream. FAU - Chen, Chia-Lung AU - Chen CL AD - Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Block E1A #07-03, Engineering Drive 2, Singapore 117576. FAU - Wu, Jer-Horng AU - Wu JH FAU - Tseng, I-Cheng AU - Tseng IC FAU - Liang, Teh-Ming AU - Liang TM FAU - Liu, Wen-Tso AU - Liu WT LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Japan TA - Microbes Environ JT - Microbes and environments JID - 9710937 EDAT- 2009/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 2009/01/01 00:01 CRDT- 2011/05/14 06:00 PHST- 2011/05/14 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/01/01 00:01 [medline] AID - JST.JSTAGE/jsme2/ME09109 [pii] AID - 10.1264/jsme2.me09109 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Microbes Environ. 2009;24(2):144-53. doi: 10.1264/jsme2.me09109.