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  • Title: How phenol stresses anammox for the treatment of ammonia-rich wastewater: Phenomena, microbial community evolution and molecular modeling.
    Author: Luo D, Qian J, Jin X, Zhang L, You K, Yu PF, Fu JX.
    Journal: Bioresour Technol; 2022 Mar; 347():126747. PubMed ID: 35065227.
    Abstract:
    Phenol is a biotoxic organic compound and found in large quantities in ammonia-rich wastewater discharged from coking and petrochemical industries. In this work, phenol was fed to the system of anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox), and the possible inhibitory mechanism was speculated using the characterization of granular sludge, analysis of microbial community and molecular docking simulations. The results showed that phenol (0-300 mg/L) did not significantly inhibit anammox. However, phenol did activate denitrification, which increased the nitrogen removal rate (NRR) by 0.94 kg N/(m3·d). Moreover, when phenol concentration reached t400 mg/L, the NRR was inhibited by 70%, while the extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) of granular sludge was reduced. Phenol resulted in the reduction of Candidatus_Kuenenia and promoted the proliferation of phenol-degrading denitrifying bacteria, Azoarcus and Thauera. Molecular docking indicated that phenol, 2-nitrophenol and 4-nitrophenol could bind the nitrite reductase (NirS), which prevented the first step of the anammox reaction.
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