PMID- 26254785 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160526 LR - 20150907 IS - 1432-0614 (Electronic) IS - 0175-7598 (Linking) VI - 99 IP - 19 DP - 2015 Oct TI - Adaptation of acidogenic sludge to increasing glycerol concentrations for biohydrogen production. PG - 8295-308 LID - 10.1007/s00253-015-6832-6 [doi] AB - Hydrogen is a promising alternative as an energetic carrier and its production by dark fermentation from wastewater has been recently proposed, with special attention to crude glycerol as potential substrate. In this study, two different feeding strategies were evaluated for replacing the glucose substrate by glycerol substrate: a one-step strategy (glucose was replaced abruptly by glycerol) and a step-by-step strategy (progressive decrease of glucose concentration and increase of glycerol concentration from 0 to 5 g L(-1)), in a continuous stirred tank reactor (12 h of hydraulic retention time (HRT), pH 5.5, 35 degrees C). While the one-step strategy led to biomass washout and unsuccessful H2 production, the step-by-step strategy was efficient for biomass adaptation, reaching acceptable hydrogen yields (0.4 +/- 0.1 molH2 mol(-1) glycerol consumed) around 33 % of the theoretical yield independently of the glycerol concentration. Microbial community structure was investigated by single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) fingerprinting techniques, targeting either the total community (16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene) or the functional Clostridium population involved in H2 production (hydA gene), as well as by 454 pyrosequencing of the total community. Multivariate analysis of fingerprinting and pyrosequencing results revealed the influence of the feeding strategy on the bacterial community structure and suggested the progressive structural adaptation of the community to increasing glycerol concentrations, through the emergence and selection of specific species, highly correlated to environmental parameters. Particularly, this work highlighted an interesting shift of dominant community members (putatively responsible of hydrogen production in the continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR)) according to the gradient of glycerol proportion in the feed, from the family Veillonellaceae to the genera Prevotella and Clostridium sp., putatively responsible of hydrogen production in the CSTR. FAU - Tapia-Venegas, E AU - Tapia-Venegas E AD - Escuela de Ingenieria Bioquimica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Avenida Brasil 2085, Valparaiso, Chile, estela.tapia.v@mail.pucv.cl. FAU - Cabrol, L AU - Cabrol L FAU - Brandhoff, B AU - Brandhoff B FAU - Hamelin, J AU - Hamelin J FAU - Trably, E AU - Trably E FAU - Steyer, J P AU - Steyer JP FAU - Ruiz-Filippi, G AU - Ruiz-Filippi G LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150809 PL - Germany TA - Appl Microbiol Biotechnol JT - Applied microbiology and biotechnology JID - 8406612 RN - 0 (Acids) RN - 0 (Sewage) RN - 7YNJ3PO35Z (Hydrogen) RN - PDC6A3C0OX (Glycerol) SB - IM MH - Acids/metabolism MH - Bacteria/classification/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism MH - Bioreactors/microbiology MH - Fermentation MH - Glycerol/analysis/*metabolism MH - Hydrogen/*metabolism MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Phylogeny MH - Sewage/chemistry/*microbiology EDAT- 2015/08/10 06:00 MHDA- 2016/05/27 06:00 CRDT- 2015/08/10 06:00 PHST- 2015/04/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/07/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/07/05 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/08/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/08/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/05/27 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s00253-015-6832-6 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2015 Oct;99(19):8295-308. doi: 10.1007/s00253-015-6832-6. Epub 2015 Aug 9.