PMID- 25506762 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20151230 LR - 20190108 IS - 1879-2448 (Electronic) IS - 0043-1354 (Print) IS - 0043-1354 (Linking) VI - 70 DP - 2015 Mar 1 TI - Ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities in reactors with efficient nitrification at low-dissolved oxygen. PG - 38-51 LID - S0043-1354(14)00820-3 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.watres.2014.11.041 [doi] AB - Ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities involved in ammonia oxidation under low dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions (<0.3 mg/L) were investigated using chemostat reactors. One lab-scale reactor (NS_LowDO) was seeded with sludge from a full-scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) not adapted to low-DO nitrification, while a second reactor (JP_LowDO) was seeded with sludge from a full-scale WWTP already achieving low-DO nitrifiaction. The experimental evidence from quantitative PCR, rDNA tag pyrosequencing, and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) suggested that ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in the Nitrosomonas genus were responsible for low-DO nitrification in the NS_LowDO reactor, whereas in the JP_LowDO reactor nitrification was not associated with any known ammonia-oxidizing prokaryote. Neither reactor had a significant population of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) or anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) organisms. Organisms isolated from JP_LowDO were capable of autotrophic and heterotrophic ammonia utilization, albeit without stoichiometric accumulation of nitrite or nitrate. Based on the experimental evidence we propose that Pseudomonas, Xanthomonadaceae, Rhodococcus, and Sphingomonas are involved in nitrification under low-DO conditions. CI - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Fitzgerald, Colin M AU - Fitzgerald CM AD - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Electronic address: colin.fitzgerald87@gmail.com. FAU - Camejo, Pamela AU - Camejo P AD - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Electronic address: camejo.pamela@gmail.com. FAU - Oshlag, J Zachary AU - Oshlag JZ AD - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Electronic address: j.z.oshlag@gmail.com. FAU - Noguera, Daniel R AU - Noguera DR AD - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Electronic address: noguera@engr.wisc.edu. LA - eng GR - T32 GM008349/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 GM08349/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20141203 PL - England TA - Water Res JT - Water research JID - 0105072 RN - 0 (Sewage) RN - 7664-41-7 (Ammonia) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) SB - IM MH - Ammonia/*metabolism MH - Archaea/classification/genetics/*metabolism MH - Bacteria/classification/genetics/*metabolism MH - *Bioreactors MH - *Nitrification MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Oxygen/*metabolism MH - Phylogeny MH - Sewage MH - Solubility PMC - PMC4564296 MID - NIHMS716889 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Activated sludge OT - Ammonia oxidizing archaea OT - Ammonia oxidizing bacteria OT - Low dissolved oxygen OT - Nitrification EDAT- 2014/12/17 06:00 MHDA- 2015/12/31 06:00 PMCR- 2015/09/09 CRDT- 2014/12/16 06:00 PHST- 2014/08/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/11/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/11/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/12/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/12/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/12/31 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/09/09 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0043-1354(14)00820-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.watres.2014.11.041 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Water Res. 2015 Mar 1;70:38-51. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.11.041. Epub 2014 Dec 3.