PMID- 34545673
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220317
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1462-2920 (Electronic)
IS  - 1462-2912 (Print)
IS  - 1462-2912 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 11
DP  - 2021 Nov
TI  - Unmasking photogranulation in decreasing glacial albedo and net autotrophic 
      wastewater treatment.
PG  - 6391-6404
LID - 10.1111/1462-2920.15780 [doi]
AB  - In both natural and built environments, microbes on occasions manifest in 
      spherical aggregates instead of substratum-affixed biofilms. These microbial 
      aggregates are conventionally referred to as granules. Cryoconites are mineral 
      rich granules that appear on glacier surfaces and are linked with expanding 
      surface darkening, thus decreasing albedo, and enhanced melt. The oxygenic 
      photogranules (OPGs) are organic rich granules that grow in wastewater, which 
      enables wastewater treatment with photosynthetically produced oxygen and which 
      presents potential for net autotrophic wastewater treatment in a compact system. 
      Despite obvious differences inherent in the two, cryoconite and OPG pose striking 
      resemblance. In both, the order Oscillatoriales in Cyanobacteria envelope inner 
      materials and develop dense spheroidal aggregates. We explore the mechanism of 
      photogranulation on account of high similarity between cryoconites and OPGs. We 
      contend that there is no universal external cause for photogranulation. However, 
      cryoconites and OPGs, as well as their intravariations, which are all under 
      different stress fields, are the outcome of universal physiological processes of 
      the Oscillatoriales interfacing with goldilocks interactions of stresses. Finding 
      the rules of photogranulation may enhance engineering of glacier and wastewater 
      systems to manipulate their ecosystem impacts.
CI  - (c) 2021 The Authors. Environmental Microbiology published by Society for Applied 
      Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
FAU - Park, Chul
AU  - Park C
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0695-8562
AD  - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts 
      Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01003, USA.
FAU - Takeuchi, Nozomu
AU  - Takeuchi N
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3267-5534
AD  - Department of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 
      Chiba, 263-8522, Japan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PT  - Review
DEP - 20210928
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Microbiol
JT  - Environmental microbiology
JID - 100883692
RN  - 0 (Waste Water)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Cyanobacteria
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - Ice Cover/microbiology
MH  - Wastewater
MH  - *Water Purification
PMC - PMC9292683
EDAT- 2021/09/22 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/18 06:00
PMCR- 2022/07/18
CRDT- 2021/09/21 06:50
PHST- 2021/09/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/08/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/09/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/09/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/18 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/09/21 06:50 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/07/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - EMI15780 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/1462-2920.15780 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Microbiol. 2021 Nov;23(11):6391-6404. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15780. Epub 
      2021 Sep 28.