Print Email Facebook Twitter Syntrophy between fermentative and purple phototrophic bacteria to treat and valorize carbohydrate-rich wastewaters Title Syntrophy between fermentative and purple phototrophic bacteria to treat and valorize carbohydrate-rich wastewaters Author Cerruti, M. (TU Delft BT/Environmental Biotechnology) Crosset-Perrotin, G. (TU Delft BT/Environmental Biotechnology) Ananth, Mythili (Student TU Delft) Rombouts, Julius Laurens (Student TU Delft; Nature’s Principles B.V., Den Haag) Weissbrodt, D.G. (TU Delft BT/Environmental Biotechnology) Date 2023 Abstract Fermentative chemoorganoheterotrophic bacteria (FCB) and purple photoorganoheterotrophic bacteria (PPB) are two interesting microbial guilds to process carbohydrate-rich wastewaters. Their metabolic interactions have been studied in pure cultures or co-cultures, but little is known about mixed cultures. We studied the effect of reactor regimes (batch/chemostat) and illumination modes (continuous infrared light, dark, or light/dark cycles) on glucose conversions and process ecology of the interactions between FCB and PPB in mixed cultures. In batch, FCB (>80 % of sequencing read counts) outcompeted PPB, under any light conditions. In chemostat under continuous and alternating irradiance, three FCB populations were enriched (>70 %), while Rhodobacteraceae (PPB) made 30 % of the community. Glucose fermentation products were linked to the dominant FCB. Continuous culturing helped maintaining FCB and PPB in syntrophy: PPB grew on glucose metabolites produced by FCB. Engineering the association between FCB and PPB in mixed-culture processes can help to treat and valorize carbohydrate-rich aqueous waste. Subject ChemoorganoheterotrophsMixed-culture fermentationPhotoorganoheterotrophsResource recoverySyntrophy To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:41be8047-7942-4ba9-ab4d-361c79cda0cb DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biteb.2023.101348 Source Bioresource Technology Reports, 22 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 M. Cerruti, G. Crosset-Perrotin, Mythili Ananth, Julius Laurens Rombouts, D.G. Weissbrodt Files PDF 1_s2.0_S2589014X23000191_main.pdf 3.1 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:41be8047-7942-4ba9-ab4d-361c79cda0cb/datastream/OBJ/view