PMID- 38493623 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20240408 LR - 20240408 IS - 1873-3336 (Electronic) IS - 0304-3894 (Linking) VI - 469 DP - 2024 May 5 TI - Biotransformation of HBCDs by the microbial communities enriched from mangrove sediments. PG - 134036 LID - S0304-3894(24)00615-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134036 [doi] AB - 1,2,5,6,9,10-Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) are a sort of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). This research investigated 12 microbial communities enriched from sediments of four mangroves in China to transform HBCDs. Six microbial communities gained high transformation rates (27.5-97.7%) after 12 generations of serial transfer. Bacteria were the main contributors to transform HBCDs rather than fungi. Analyses on the bacterial compositions and binning genomes showed that Alcanivorax (55.246-84.942%) harboring haloalkane dehalogenase genes dadAH and dadBH dominated the microbial communities with high transformation rates. Moreover, expressions of dadAH and dadBH in the microbial communities and Alcanivorax isolate could be induced by HBCDs. Further, it was found that purified proteins DadAH and DadBH showed high conversion rates on HBCDs in 36 h (91.9 +/- 7.4 and 101.0 +/- 1.8%, respectively). The engineered Escherichia coli BL21 strains harbored two genes could convert 5.7 +/- 0.4 and 35.1 +/- 0.1% HBCDs, respectively, lower than their cell-free crude extracts (61.2 +/- 5.2 and 56.5 +/- 8.7%, respectively). The diastereoisomer-specific transforming trend by both microbial communities and enzymes were gamma- > alpha- > beta-HBCD, differed from alpha- > beta- > gamma-HBCD by the Alcanivorax isolate. The identified transformation products indicated that HBCDs were dehalogenated via HBr elimination (dehydrobromination), hydrolytic and reductive debromination pathways in the enriched cultures. Two enzymes converted HBCDs via hydrolytic debromination. The present research provided theoretical bases for the biotransformation of HBCDs by microbial community and the bioremediation of HBCDs contamination in the environment. CI - Copyright (c) 2024. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Yu, Fei AU - Yu F AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Zhang, Bing AU - Zhang B AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Liu, Yongjin AU - Liu Y AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Luo, Wenqi AU - Luo W AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Chen, Haonan AU - Chen H AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Gao, Jun'na AU - Gao J AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Ye, Xueying AU - Ye X AD - School of Life Sciences, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516007, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Li, Jin AU - Li J AD - Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Disaster Prediction and Prevention, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Xie, Qingyi AU - Xie Q AD - Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China. FAU - Peng, Tao AU - Peng T AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Wang, Hui AU - Wang H AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Huang, Tongwang AU - Huang T AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. FAU - Hu, Zhong AU - Hu Z AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, Guangdong Province, China. Electronic address: hzh@stu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20240313 PL - Netherlands TA - J Hazard Mater JT - Journal of hazardous materials JID - 9422688 RN - 5I9835JO3M (hexabromocyclododecane) RN - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Brominated) RN - 0 (Flame Retardants) SB - IM MH - Stereoisomerism MH - *Hydrocarbons, Brominated/metabolism MH - Biotransformation MH - Bacteria/metabolism MH - *Microbiota MH - *Flame Retardants OTO - NOTNLM OT - Biotransformation OT - Dehalogenase OT - HBCDs OT - Microbial community 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- 2024/03/18 00:42 MHDA- 2024/04/08 06:42 CRDT- 2024/03/17 19:08 PHST- 2023/11/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2024/02/29 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2024/03/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2024/04/08 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2024/03/18 00:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2024/03/17 19:08 [entrez] AID - S0304-3894(24)00615-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134036 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Hazard Mater. 2024 May 5;469:134036. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134036. Epub 2024 Mar 13.