Trego, Anna and Palmeiro-Sánchez, Tania and Graham, Alison and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan and O'Flaherty, Vincent (2024) First evidence for temperature influencing the enrichment, assembly and activity of polyhydroxyalkanoate-synthesizing mixed microbial communities. Frontiers in Systems Biology, 4: 1375472. ISSN 2674-0702
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Three aerobic sequencing batch reactors were operated at different temperatures (15°C, 35°C, and 48°C) to study PHA accumulation. The results showed that all temperatures yielded highly enriched PHA-accumulating consortia.AI Topics:
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are popular biopolymers due to their potential use as biodegradable thermoplastics. In this study, three aerobic sequencing batch reactors were operated identically except for their temperatures, which were set at 15 °C, 35 °C, and 48 °C. The reactors were subjected to a feast–famine feeding regime, where carbon sources are supplied intermittently, to enrich PHA-accumulating microbial consortia. The biomass was sampled for 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of both DNA (during the enrichment phase) and cDNA (during the enrichment and accumulation phases). All temperatures yielded highly enriched PHA-accumulating consortia. Thermophilic communities were significantly less diverse than those at low or mesophilic temperatures. In particular, Thauera was highly adaptable, abundant, and active at all temperatures. Low temperatures resulted in reduced PHA production rates and yields. Analysis of the microbial community revealed a collapse of community diversity during low-temperature PHA accumulation, suggesting that the substrate dosing strategy was unsuccessful at low temperatures. This points to future possibilities for optimizing low-temperature PHA accumulation.
Title | First evidence for temperature influencing the enrichment, assembly and activity of polyhydroxyalkanoate-synthesizing mixed microbial communities |
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Creators | Trego, Anna and Palmeiro-Sánchez, Tania and Graham, Alison and Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan and O'Flaherty, Vincent |
Identification Number | 10.3389/fsysb.2024.1375472 |
Date | 14 August 2024 |
Divisions | College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Infrastructure and Environment |
Publisher | Frontiers Media |
URI | https://pub.demo35.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/180 |
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Item Type | Article |
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Depositing User | Unnamed user with email ejo1f20@soton.ac.uk |
Date Deposited | 11 Jun 2025 16:35 |
Revision | 37 |
Last Modified | 12 Jun 2025 11:47 |
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