PMID- 36463679 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230105 LR - 20230111 IS - 1879-2448 (Electronic) IS - 0043-1354 (Linking) VI - 229 DP - 2023 Feb 1 TI - Continuous cultivation of Dehalococcoides mccartyi with brominated tyrosine avoids toxic byproducts and gives tight reactor control. PG - 119396 LID - S0043-1354(22)01341-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119396 [doi] AB - Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain CBDB1 is a strictly anaerobic organohalide-respiring bacterium with strong application potential to remediate aquifers and soils contaminated with halogenated aromatics. To date, cultivation of strain CBDB1 has mostly been done in bottles or fed-batch reactors. Challenges with such systems include low biomass yield and difficulties in controlling the growth conditions. Here, we report the cultivation of planktonic D. mccartyi strain CBDB1 in a continuous stirring tank reactor (CSTR) that led to high cell densities ( approximately 8 x 10(8) cells mL(-1)) and dominance of strain CBDB1. The reactor culture received acetate, hydrogen, and the brominated amino acid D- or L-3,5-dibromotyrosine as substrates. Both D- and L-3,5-dibromotyrosine were utilized as respiratory electron acceptors and are promising for biomass production due to their decent solubility in water and the formation of a non-toxic debromination product, tyrosine. By monitoring headspace pressure decrease which is indicative of hydrogen consumption, the organohalide respiration rate was followed in real time. Proteomics analyses revealed that the reductive dehalogenase CbdbA238 was highly expressed with both D- and L-3,5-dibromotyrosine, while other reductive dehalogenases including those that were previously suggested to be constitutively expressed, were repressed. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of amplified 16S rRNA genes indicated that the majority of cells in the community belonged to the Dehalococcoides although the CSTR was operated under non-sterile conditions. Hence, tightly controlled CSTR cultivation of Dehalococcoides opens novel options to improve biomass production for bioaugmentation and for advanced biochemical studies. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Reino, Clara AU - Reino C AD - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany. FAU - Ding, Chang AU - Ding C AD - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: chang.ding@ufz.de. FAU - Adrian, Lorenz AU - Adrian L AD - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany; Chair of Geobiotechnology, Technische Universitat Berlin, Ackerstrasse 76, 13355, Berlin, Germany. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20221119 PL - England TA - Water Res JT - Water research JID - 0105072 RN - 42HK56048U (Tyrosine) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) RN - 7YNJ3PO35Z (Hydrogen) RN - Dehalococcoides mccartyi SB - IM MH - *Tyrosine MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S MH - Hydrogen MH - *Chloroflexi/genetics MH - Biodegradation, Environmental OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bioremediation OT - Brominated phenolic compounds OT - Continuous stirred tank reactor OT - Online activity monitoring OT - Organohalide respiration 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- 2022/12/05 06:00 MHDA- 2023/01/06 06:00 CRDT- 2022/12/04 18:17 PHST- 2022/07/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/11/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/11/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/12/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/01/06 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/12/04 18:17 [entrez] AID - S0043-1354(22)01341-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119396 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Water Res. 2023 Feb 1;229:119396. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119396. Epub 2022 Nov 19.