PMID- 33045590
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20201218
LR  - 20201218
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 268
IP  - Pt A
DP  - 2021 Jan 1
TI  - Bacterial communities as indicators of environmental pollution by POPs in marine 
      sediments.
PG  - 115690
LID - S0269-7491(20)36379-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115690 [doi]
AB  - Decades of intensive discharge from industrial activities into coastal systems 
      has resulted in the accumulation of a variety of persistent organic pollutants 
      (POPs) in marine waters and sediments, having detrimental impacts on aquatic 
      ecosystems and the resident biota. POPs are among the most hazardous chemicals 
      originating from industrial activities due to their biotoxicity and resistance to 
      environmental degradation. Bacterial communities are known to break down many of 
      these aromatic compounds, and different members of naturally occurring bacterial 
      consortia have been described to work in syntrophic association to thrive in 
      heavily contaminated waters and sediments, making them potential candidates as 
      bioindicators of environmental pollution. In this study environmental, sampling 
      was combined with chemical analysis of pollutants and high-resolution sequencing 
      of bacterial communities using Next Generation Sequencing molecular biology 
      tools. The aim of the present study was to describe the bacterial communities 
      from marine sediments containing high loads of POPs and to identify relevant 
      members of the resident microbial communities that may act as bioindicators of 
      contamination. Marine sediments were collected from a coastal bay area of the 
      Baltic Sea historically influenced by intense industrial activity, including 
      metal smelting, oil processing, and pulp and paper production. Different types of 
      POPs were detected at high concentrations. Fiberbank sediments, resulting from 
      historic paper industry activity, were found to harbour a clearly distinct 
      bacterial community including a number of bacterial taxa capable of cellulolytic 
      and dechlorination activities. Our findings indicate that specific members of the 
      bacterial communities thrive under increasing levels of POPs in marine sediments, 
      and that the abundances of certain taxa correlate with specific POPs (or groups), 
      which could potentially be employed in monitoring, status assessment and 
      environmental management purposes.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Rodriguez, Juanjo
AU  - Rodriguez J
AD  - Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Electronic 
      address: jj.rserrano@gmail.com.
FAU - Gallampois, Christine M J
AU  - Gallampois CMJ
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Umea University, Umea, Sweden.
FAU - Haglund, Peter
AU  - Haglund P
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Umea University, Umea, Sweden.
FAU - Timonen, Sari
AU  - Timonen S
AD  - Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
FAU - Rowe, Owen
AU  - Rowe O
AD  - Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Helsinki 
      Commission (HELCOM), Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, Helsinki, 
      Finland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200925
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants
MH  - Environmental Pollution
MH  - Geologic Sediments
MH  - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bacterial communities
OT  - Baltic sea
OT  - Environmental indicators
OT  - Environmental pollution
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2020/10/13 06:00
MHDA- 2020/12/19 06:00
CRDT- 2020/10/12 20:12
PHST- 2019/11/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/08/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/09/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/10/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/12/19 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/10/12 20:12 [entrez]
AID - S0269-7491(20)36379-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115690 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2021 Jan 1;268(Pt A):115690. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115690. 
      Epub 2020 Sep 25.