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The enrichment culture SL2 dechlorinating tetrachloroethene (PCE) to ethene with strong trichloroethene (TCE) accumulation prior to cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) formation was analyzed for the presence of organohalide respiring bacteria and reductive dehalogenase genes (rdhA). Sulfurospirillum-affiliated bacteria were identified to be involved in PCE dechlorination to cis-DCE whereas "Dehalococcoides"-affiliated bacteria mainly dechlorinated cis-DCE to ethene. Two rdhA genes highly similar to tetrachloroethene reductive dehalogenase genes (pceA) of S. multivorans and S. halorespirans were present as well as an rdhA gene very similar to the trichloroethene reductive dehalogenase gene (tceA) of "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" strain 195. A single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) method was developed allowing the simultaneous detection of the three rdhA genes and the estimation of their abundance. SSCP analysis of different SL2 cultures showed that one pceA gene was expressed during PCE dechlorination whereas the second was expressed during TCE dechlorination. The tceA gene was involved in cis-DCE dechlorination to ethene. Analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes revealed two distinct sequences originating from Sulfurospirillum suggesting that two Sulfurospirillum populations were present in SL2. Whether each Sulfurospirillum population was catalyzing a different dechlorination step could however not be elucidated.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Biodegradation (2011) 22:949960 DOI 10.1007/s10532-011-9454-4
ORIGINAL PAPER
Reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene by a stepwise catalysis of different organohalide respiring bacteriaand reductive dehalogenases
Julien Maillard Marie-Paule Charnay Christophe Regeard
Emmanuelle Rohrbach-Brandt Katia Rouzeau-Szynalski
Pierre Rossi Christof Holliger
Received: 15 September 2010 / Accepted: 8 January 2011 / Published online: 18 January 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Abstract The enrichment culture SL2 dechlorinating tetrachloroethene (PCE) to ethene with strong trichloroethene (TCE) accumulation prior to cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) formation was analyzed for the presence of organohalide respiring bacteria and
reductive dehalogenase genes (rdhA). Sulfurospirillum-afliated bacteria were identied to be involved in PCE dechlorination to cis-DCE whereas Dehalococcoides-afliated bacteria mainly dechlorinated cis-DCE to ethene. Two rdhA genes highly similar to tetrachloroethene reductive dehalogenase genes (pceA) of S. multivorans and S. halorespirans were present as well as an rdhA gene very similar to the trichloroethene reductive dehalogenase gene (tceA) of Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195. A single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) method was developed allowing the simultaneous detection of the three rdhA genes and the estimation of their abundance. SSCP analysis of different SL2 cultures showed that one pceA gene was expressed during PCE dechlorination whereas the second was expressed during TCE dechlorination. The tceA gene was involved in cis-DCE dechlorination to ethene. Analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes revealed two distinct sequences originating from Sulfurospirillum suggesting that two Sulfurospirillum populations were present in SL2. Whether each Sulfurospirillum population was catalyzing a different dechlorination step could however not be elucidated.
Keywords Reductive dechlorination
Organohalide respiration Anaerobic degradation
Chlorinated solvents
J. Maillard M.-P. Charnay C. Regeard
E. Rohrbach-Brandt K. Rouzeau-Szynalski
P. Rossi C. Holliger (&)
Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL), ENAC IIELaboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Station 6, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected]
Present Address:M.-P. CharnayUniversit de Lausanne, Ecole de Biologie, Quartier UNIL-Sorge, Btiment Biophore, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Present Address:C. RegeardCNRS UMR 8621, Institut de Gntique et Microbiologie, Bat. 409, Universit Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
Present Address:K. Rouzeau-SzynalskiProduct Technology Center-Nestl, Konolngen, Switzerland
Present Address:P. RossiEPFL ENAC IIE CEL, Station 2, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Introduction
Reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene (PCE), one of the most often encountered groundwater pollutants, is an interesting microbial process from a fundamental as well as application point of view. This naturally occurring process can be used to bioremediate chloroethene-contaminated aquifers either by natural attenuation, by biostimulation or also called enhanced natural attenuation, and, if necessary, by bioaugmentation (Christ et al. 2005; Da Silva et al. 2006; Hood et al. 2008). Different bacteria have been identied that use chloroethenes as terminal electron acceptor in anaerobic respiration (Holliger et al. 2003; Smidt and de Vos 2004). Besides the identication of yet unknown bacterial isolates of new bacterial genera and species, a novel biochemistry of corrinoid-containing enzymes has been discovered involving electron instead of alkyl transfer (Neumann et al. 1996; Krautler et al. 2003; Maillard et al. 2003; Costentin et al. 2006).
Some isolates of the genera Desultobacterium, Dehalobacter, Sulfurospirillum, Geobacter, and Desulfuromonas can dechlorinate PCE to cis-DCE whereas only isolates of Dehalococcoides spp. have the capability to dechlorinate chloroethenes to ethene in a co-metabolic (Maymo-Gatell et al. 2001; He et al. 2005) or metabolic, respiratory process (Cupples et al. 2003; He et al. 2003; Duhamel et al. 2004; Sung et al. 2006). Dehalococcoides spp. have frequently been detected in aquifer samples, especially at sites where dechlorination has gone beyond DCE (Hendrickson et al. 2002; Rahm et al. 2006; Imfeld et al. 2008; Dowideit et al. 2010), as well as in different enrichment cultures (Duhamel et al. 2004; Freeborn et al. 2005; Yang et al. 2005; Grostern and Edwards 2006; Daprato et al. 2007; Rouzeau-Szynalski et al. 2011). A detailed analysis of the enrichment culture KB1 indicated that several Dehalococcoides spp. populations have been present probably catalyzing the complete PCE dechlorination with several reductive dehalogenases (Duhamel et al. 2002; Waller et al. 2005). In order to enumerate the number of genes, to follow reductive dehalogenase (rdhA) gene expression, and to differentiate between Dehalococcoides spp. populations, a quantitative real-time PCR technique has been developed (Johnson et al. 2005) and applied to enrichment cultures (Holmes et al. 2006; Lee et al. 2006) and aquifer samples (Lee et al. 2008).
Also these studies have indicated that more than one Dehalococcoides population have been involved in complete chloroethene dechlorination.
Besides this co-existence of different Dehalococcoides populations probably responsible for the catalysis of different dechlorination steps, the co-existence of organohalide respiring bacteria belonging to different bacterial genera has also been reported. A PCE-dechlorinating culture enriched on different electron donors contained members of the bacterial genera Desultobacterium and Dehalococcoides (Yang et al. 2005). The members of the former genus have dechlorinated PCE to cis-DCE whereas the ones of the latter could be associated with the formation of ethene (Bunge et al. 2007). In enrichment cultures from aquifer samples, Dehalobacter spp. have been shown to dechlorinate 1,1,2-trichloroethane to vinyl chloride (VC) via a dehalo-elimination reaction whereas Dehalococcoides spp. have dechlorinated VC to ethene (Grostern and Edwards 2006). Co-existence of up to four organohalide respiring bacteria has been found in different enrichments dechlorinating PCE with methanol as electron donor with a predominance of Dehalobacter spp. and Dehalococcoides spp. (Daprato et al. 2007). In a chloroethene and chloroethanedechlorinating culture forming ethene, Geobacter spp. and Dehalococcoides spp. were responsible for TCE dechlorination whereas only Dehalococcoides dechlorinated beyond DCE and formed ethene (Duhamel and Edwards 2007). Similar results have been found in a bioaugmented laboratory sand column where Geobacter lovleyi has been identied as the major PCE-dechlorinating population and Dehalococcoides spp. as the ethene-forming one (Amos et al. 2009).
Hence, although single strains of bacteria having the capability to completely dechlorinate PCE exist, such as Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195, ethene formation in PCE-contaminated aquifers has probably been the result of multiple organohalide respiring populations catalyzing the different dechlorination steps. In order to better understand the involvement of multiple organohalide respiring bacteria in stepwise catalysis of PCE dechlorination, a detailed analysis of an enrichment culture designated SL2 and containing Sulfurospirillum spp. and Dehalococcoides spp. has been carried out. For this purpose, a molecular ngerprinting technique based on single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) using capillary
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electrophoresis for the analysis of reductive dehalogenase genes was developed.
Materials and methods
Chemicals
All chemicals were analytical grade and used without purication. Tetrachloroethene (PCE) (99%) and n-hexadecane (99%) were purchased from Acros Organics, Geel, Belgium. Due to the possible presence of inhibiting compounds in synthetic cis-DCE, biogenic cis-DCE prepared as described by Maymo-Gatell et al. (2001) was used, however Desultobacterium hafniense strain TCE1 was used as PCE-dechlorinating bacterium. All gases (N2, CO2,
H2) were purchased from SLGas, Sauerstoffwerk Lenzburg, Switzerland.
Cultivation technique and source of inoculum
The inoculum biomass of the consortium described in this study originated from a xed-bed bioreactor treating groundwater that was pumped to surface at a PCE-contaminated site. PCE was completely dechlorinated to ethene in this reactor and the sample was kindly provided by Bioclear B.V., Groningen, The Netherlands, in the framework of the EU FP5 project Maroc. The cultivation of the enrichment cultures was carried out in 100 or 500 ml serum bottles (VWR international AG, Merck, Dietikon, Switzerland) containing 50 or 250 ml of anaerobic medium, and was performed with a two-liquid-phase system that has been described previously (Holliger et al. 1998). The bottles were sealed with Viton or butyl rubber stoppers and the gas phase of the bottles was replaced with a H2/CO2 mixture (4:1, v:v, 1.0 bar over-pressure) using a gas exchange system (Druva Sonderventie GmbH, Eppelheim, Germany). PCE was dissolved in hexadecane at a concentration of 100 mM. An aliquot of 5 ml per 50 ml medium was added to inoculated culture bottles by syringe. Acetate (5 mM) was added as carbon source and the cultures were incubated at 30C in the dark on a rotary shaker at 100 rpm. When mixtures of organic compounds were used as electron donors, H2 was replaced by N2 and no acetate was added as carbon source.
Analytical methods
The dechlorination activity of the cultures was followed by measuring the concentration of chloride in the aqueous phase by silver ion titration with a Chloro-counter (Flohr Instrument, Nieuwegein, Netherlands). Chloroethenes and methane were analyzed by gas chromatography as previously described (Maillard et al. 2003). The volatile fatty acids were analyzed using a HPLC (Varian Star 9100, Varian AG, Zug, Switzerland) with a refractive index (RI) detector (ERC-7415 A, Varian). Samples of 1.2 ml were deproteinated by adding 150 ll Ba(OH)2 0.15 M and 150 ll ZnSO40.15 M, centrifuging 10 min at 11,0009g, and ltering with a 0.2 lm lter (Sarsted, Sevelen, Switzerland). The
HPLC was equipped with a guard column connected to an organic acid column maintained at 60C (ORH-801,
InterAction INC, Varian). The solvent was 50 mM H2SO4 with a ow rate of 0.61 ml/min.
DNA extraction
The kit UltraCleanTM Soil DNA Isolation from MoBio Laboratories, Inc. (BIOzym, Landgraaf, Netherlands) was used for the DNA extraction. Aliquots of 15 ml of the enrichment cultures were centrifuged at 29,0009g for 5 min at 4C, the pellet resuspended in 300 ll 0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer (pH 8.0), and the suspension transferred in the extraction tubes provided by MoBio. Some modications were introduced in the protocol of the Kit MoBio as described previously (Rouzeau-Szynalski et al. 2011). The extracted DNA was quantied with a uorometer TD-700 (Turner Designs) using the PicoGreen dsDNA quantitation reagent Kit P-7581 from Molecular Probes.
Total RNA extraction and reverse transcription
The SV Total RNA Isolation System Z3101 from Promega was used for total RNA extraction. Cells were harvested from aliquots of 15 ml of the enrichment cultures by centrifugation at 29,0009g for 5 min at 4C. Reverse transcription was performed as follows:10.5 ll of the RNA extract (70100 lg/ml) and 0.5 ll of 10 lM reverse primer on the target gene were mixed, incubated for 5 min at 70C, and cooled on ice. Then 5 ll of AMV RT 59 reaction buffer (Promega), 2.5 ll of 10 mM dNTPs, 11 ll of RNase-free water and 1 ll of
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AMV Reverse Transcriptase (30 units) were added. The reaction mixture was incubated for 90 min at 42C, followed by enzyme denaturation for 15 min at 70C. Standard PCR conditions were used to amplify cDNA as described below.
PCR amplication of rdhA genes and cloning and sequencing of PCR products
All primers used were synthesized by Microsynth GmbH (Balgach, Switzerland). For cloning of the 16S rRNA gene the eubacterial primers Eub-8F (50-AGAG
TTTGATCCTGGCTCAG-30; position 827) and Eub-534R (50-ATTACCGCGGCTGCTGGC-30; positions 534516) were used. Degenerate and specic PCR were performed for the isolation of rdhA genes with the methods and primers described previously (Regeard et al. 2004), except for the specic detection of vcrA and bvcA where the methods and primers vcrA880f/ vcrA1018r and bvcA277f/bvcA523r described by Behrens et al. (2008) were used. For cloning, the PCR products obtained with degenerate primers were puried using the PCR Purication Minelute Kit (Qiagen GmbH, Hilden, Germany). PCR products were directly cloned into pGEM-T easy (Promega), and selected using colony PCR with T7 and SP6 standard primers. The detailed cloning and sequencing procedure has been described previously (Regeard et al. 2004).
Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis
The 16S rRNA genes of the microbial communities present in the DNA samples were amplied with eubacterial primers Eub-8F and Eub-534R, the former being uorescently labeled with HEX (hexachloro-6-carboxy-uorescine) at the 50 position. Amplication reactions were performed with a thermocycler T3 (Biometra, Biolabo, Chtel-St-Denis, Switzerland). The details of the whole procedure have been previously described (Rouzeau-Szynalski et al. 2011).
Single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis of rdhA genes
The two primer sets SpSm1f/SpSm1r and SpDe1f/ SpDe1r (Regeard et al. 2004) were used to amplify the approximate 200 bp fragments. The reverse
primer SpSm1r was labeled with HEX, the reverse primer SpDe1r with FAM (6-carboxy-uorescine). The PCR was carried out under the following conditions: 25 ll PCR mixture contained 2.5 ll of
Taq DNA Polymerase 109 buffer, 1.0 ll of 2.5 mM dNTPs, 1 ll of 10 lM each primer, 0.2 ll of Taq DNA Polymerase, 100 ng of DNA. The DNA was amplied with the following program: 3 min initial denaturation at 94C, 26 cycles of 1 min denaturation at 94C, 30 s of primers annealing at the 52C, and 1 min of elongation at 72C. A nal extension step of 10 min at 72C was included. PCR products were puried before further use.
The PCR or RT-PCR products diluted in sterile water at ratios of 1:10 to 1:100 (1 ll) were added to10.5 ll of HiDi formamide and 0.5 ll of internal size standard GeneScan-400 Rox (ABI Applied Biosystems, Rotkreuz, Switzerland). The samples were denatured for 2 min at 90C and cooled at 4C before placing them on ice. Electrophoresis was performed using a ABI Prism 3100 CE system equipped with capillary tubes (36 cm 9 50 lm) lled with a polymer composed of 5.5% GeneScan polymer (ABI Applied Biosystems), 10% glycerol and 19 TBE. After preparation of running buffer, polymer and instrument, electrophoresis was carried out at 15 kV and 25C for 25 min per 16 samples.
Analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region
For the analysis of ITS region between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes of Sulfurospirillum spp. the primers ITS-f (50-GTCGTAACAAGGTAGCCGTA-30) and ITS-r (50-GCCAAGGCATCCACC-30) were used (Cardinale et al. 2004). After a PCR with a temperature gradient, 54C was chosen as optimal annealing temperature.
The reaction mixture, amplication conditions and cloning/sequencing procedures were the same as the ones used for the amplication of the rdhA genes. For accurate separation and semi-quantitative analysis of ITS PCR products, the Bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies) was used with the DNA 1000 kit.
Nucleotide sequence accession number
All sequences obtained in this study were deposited in Genbank under the following accession numbers: 16S rRNA genes (HM745914HM745916), rdhA
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genes (HM745917HM745923), as wells as ITS sequences (HM745924HM745926).
Results
Dechlorination of PCE by culture SL2
The enrichment SL2 dechlorinating PCE to ethene and obtained from a biomass sample of a xed-bed bioreactor treating PCE-contaminated groundwater was initially fed with a mixture of seven electron donors containing acetate, formate, propionate, butyrate, ethanol, lactate, and pyruvate. When testing individual electron donors, hydrogen was the electron donor resulting in the most rapid dechlorination rates. Therefore hydrogen was used in the following for routine transfer of SL2 but acetate had to be provided as carbon source. The dechlorination pattern of SL2 was rather peculiar due to the strong initial accumulation of TCE upon PCE dechlorination without formation of cis-DCE (Fig. 1). Only when the PCE concentration was low, TCE dechlorination and formation of cis-DCE and VC started. PCE dechlorination to VC was completed after 20 days and VC was subsequently dechlorinated only very slowly to ethene.
In order to get indications about the bacteria involved in the different dechlorination steps, SL2 was transferred on PCE as well as cis-DCE. The latter transfer line was designated SL2-DCE. On PCE, two transfer lines were created. In one transfer line, designated SL2-PCEa, the culture was only transferred
on fresh medium when a large percentage of PCE was dechlorinated to ethene. In the other transfer line, designated SL2-PCEb, transfers were done when TCE dechlorination was almost completed. In addition, a serial dilution was done and only the highest dilution that showed dechlorination activity was used for further transfers on fresh medium. This procedure allowed loss of cis-DCE dechlorination activity and thus having only the bacteria present catalyzing the rst two dechlorination steps.
Identication of organohalide respiring bacteria and reductive dehalogenases present
T-RFLP analysis of the three culture lines showed the predominant presence of two terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) depending on the dechlorination steps occurring (Table 1). In SL2-PCEb, T-RF 254 was predominant. Cloning and sequencing of the 16S rRNA genes of this transfer line identied this population as Sulfurospirillum spp. with 97% sequence identity with S. deleyianum (DSM 6946; Genbank CP001816). The second predominant population showed a T-RF length of 168 bp and was identied as Dehalococcoides spp. The clones shared the highest sequence identity with strain BAV1 (99%; Genbank CP000688). There was one abundant additional T-RF with a length of 270 bp but it only appeared when dechlorination was completed in SL2-PCEb cultures (data not shown). Wolinella spp.-afliated populations (sequence identity of 99% withW. succinogenes strain ATCC 29543; Genbank BX571656) were identied as representatives of this operational taxonomic unit.
PCR detection of specic reductive dehalogenases showed the presence of genes similar to pceA of Sulfurospirillum multivorans and tceA of D. ethenogenes, and thus conrmed the presence of these two genera in SL2. PCR detection of pceA of Dehalobacter-Desultobacterium did not yield a positive signal indicating the absence of this gene in SL2, and also no signal was obtained for the known VC reductive dehalogenases vcrA and bvcA (data not shown).
Cloning and sequencing of PCR products obtained from the three transfer lines of SL2 with the rdhA degenerate primer set (ceRD2L-f and RD7-r) showed that two clades of pceA genes were present, one showing 98% identity to pceA of S. multivorans (in the following referred to as Smul-pceA homolog), the
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Table 1 T-RFLP and reductive dehalogenase clone library analysis of different SL2 cultures
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Relative peak area of T-RFs 168 and 254 and number of clones containing either pceA or tceA in different SL2 culturesc
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A specic SL2 culture dechlorinating PCE to cis-DCE was obtained by serial dilution and regular transfer when cis-DCE was dechlorinated and no vinyl chloride was yet formed
a The terminal restriction fragment T-RF 168 corresponds to a Dehalococcoides spp. population present in the consortium, T-RF 254 to a Sulfurospirillum spp. population
b The reductive dehalogenase genes were cloned from DNA isolated from culture SL2. Sul-pceA cloned rdhA gene with high similarity to pceA of S. multivorans and S. halorespirans, Deth-tceA cloned rdhA gene with high similarity to tceA of D. ethenogenes
c Metagenomic DNA was isolated of the different cultures at the end of the incubation period
other with 96% identity to pceA of Sulfurospirillum halorespirans (Shal-pceA homolog) (Fig. 2). In the gene fragment amplied with the degenerate primers the Smul-pceA homolog presented a twelve nucleotide insertion which is absent in the Shal-pceA homolog allowing a clear distinction between the two pceA clades (data not shown). Some clones contained a PCR product with high similarities (98% identity) to a putative reductive dehalogenase gene previously found in S. multivorans (Smul-rdhA) and
S. halorespirans (Shal-rdpA). In addition, rdhA sequences similar to tceA of D. ethenogenes strain 195 (9495% sequence identity) were also identied (Deth-tceA homolog) (Fig. 2).
Clones for both pceA clades and for the Deth-tceA homolog were isolated from SL2-PCEa and SL2-DCE, while only clones belonging to the Smul-pceA homolog clade were identied in SL2-PCEb. This suggested that SL2-PCEb did not contain any Dehalococcoides spp. anymore whereas SL2-DCE
Dres-pceA
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Fig. 2 Phylogenetic analysis of clones obtained by a PCR approach designed for detection of reductive dehalogenase genes. SL2-DCE GX (Y) group X of clones from culture SL2-DCE with (Y) number of clones, SL2-PCEa GX (Y) group X of clones from culture SL2-PCEa with (Y) number of clones, SL2-PCEb GX (Y) group X of clones from culture SL2-PCEb with (Y) number of clones, pceA tetrachloroethene reductive
dehalogenase, Dres Dehalobacter restrictus (Genbank AJ439607), tceA trichloroethene reductive dehalogenase, Deth D. ethenogenes strain 195 (CP000027); rdhA, rdpA putative reductive dehalogenase, Smul S. multivorans (pceA: AF022812; rdhA: AJ539530), Shal S. halorespirans (pceA: AY013367; rdpA: AY013368)
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Table 2 Mobility values of cloned reductive dehalogenase genes in SSCP analysis
Reductive dehalogenase genea
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still contained Sulfurospirillum spp. (Table 1). This was not surprising since the hexadecane containing biogenic cis-DCE obtained as described in Materials and Methods often contained some PCE.
Development of a SSCP approach for reductive dehalogenase analysis
The short PCR products of approximately 200 bp obtained with the specic primers for rdhA gene detection (Regeard et al. 2004) made them very suitable for a SSCP analysis approach. Initially developed for rdhA gene diversity assessment in environmental samples (unpublished results), it was adapted in this study for the analysis of the dynamics of specic genes in enrichment cultures, in particular SL2 that contained two almost identical pceA genes. After optimizing different parameters such as run temperature, non-denaturing polymer and glycerol concentrations, a reproducible analysis of standard samples was obtained with very precise mobility values for the three different clones identied earlier (Table 2). Mixing the three samples and performing a multiplex SSCP showed the same mobility values for the three genes. Performing analyses of DNA samples isolated from different SL2 cultures showed peaks with mobility values of 558559, 579580, and 585586, precisely the ones obtained with the three standards. Performing this analysis with dilution series of the standard DNA mixture showed linearity of the observed peak height and area depending on the concentration of the sample DNA indicating that the SSCP approach not only allowed the detection of the different genes but also an estimation of their abundance.
Analysis of SL2-PCEa by SSCP
Samples of a culture of transfer line SL2-PCEa were taken after different periods of incubation to investigate on DNA level the dynamics of the three reductive dehalogenase genes during PCE dechlori-nation (Fig. 3). After 1 week of incubation, mainly the Smul-pceA homolog was detected. Eight days later, also the Deth-tceA homolog started to be detected and increased in abundance during the following week of incubation when dechlorination to VC was occurring. Hence, the dechlorination to VC seemed to be catalyzed by a Dehalococcoidesafliated population containing the Deth-tceA
homolog. The Shal-pceA homolog was not detected in this culture which might have been the consequence of the different electron donor used. For this culture it was not the routinely used hydrogen but a mixture of propionate, butyrate and ethanol. Analysis of SL2-PCEa cultures with hydrogen clearly showed that both pceA genes were present also in this transfer line (data not shown).
Analysis of SL2-PCEb by SSCP
The presence of two possibly different pceA genes and the unusual accumulation of TCE prior to cis-DCE formation that has not been observed so pronounced in Sulfurospirillum spp. cultures previously were quite intriguing. A time-course analysis of a SL2-PCEb culture where PCE was only dechlorinated to cis-DCE showed that rst the Shal-pceA homolog was transcribed during PCE dechlorination to TCE followed by the Smul-pceA homolog upon TCE dechlorination to cis-DCE (Fig. 4). Data on
Mobility value in mixtured
Smul-pceA homolog 584.9 0.5 585.1 0.1
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a The reductive dehalogenase genes were cloned from culture SL2 DNA. Smul-pceA homolog cloned rdhA gene with high similarity to pceA of S. multivorans, Shal-pceA homolog cloned rdhA gene with high similarity to pceA of S. halorespirans, Deth-tceA homolog cloned rdhA gene with high similarity to tceA of D. ethenogenes
b The mobility value was determined in relation to the size standard used. The value does not represent the actual fragment size, but 1/10 of the data point value obtained for each peak
c Each gene appeared as a double peak on the electropherograms, a large peak rst followed by a small peak. For semi-quantitative data the peak height and area of the large peak was taken into account
d Plasmid DNA of the three clones was mixed and a multiplex SSCP analysis was performed on this mixture including the initial PCR with the mixture of the two primer pairs SpSm1f SpSm1r and SpDe1fSpDe1r
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Analysis of the ITS regions of bacteria in SL2-PCEb
The patterns of abundance and transcription of the two pceA genes suggested that there might be two Sulfurospirillum populations present in SL2. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the 16S 23S rRNA genes was therefore analyzed in order to get indications for the presence of multiple strains of Sulfurospirillum spp. Three bands with different length were obtained after PCR with ITS-specic primers and subsequent analysis with the Bioanalyzer (Fig. 5a). Cloning and sequencing of ITS regions present in the DNA of SL2-PCEb at day 2 revealed two Sulfurospirillum-afliated ITS (Sul-ITS1 and -ITS2), and one Wolinella-afliated ITS (Wol-ITS) (Fig. 5b). The analysis of the isolated ITS clones with
the Bioanalyzer was in complete agreement with the ITS population in SL2-PCEb (Fig. 5a). Both Sulfurospirillum ITS were clearly different as Sul-ITS1 (646 nt) was very similar to the ITS region ofS. multivorans (Smul-ITS) in length and sequence, while Sul-ITS2 (552 nt) was characterized by a 94 nucleotide long deletion. The genome of Sulfurospirillum deleyianum (Genbank CP001816) contains three copies of the 16S23S rRNA genes, however all with an identical ITS region (Sdel-ITS, 630 nt). It was therefore concluded that the ITS analysis of SL2-PCEb suggested the presence of two Sulfurospirillum populations.
The dynamics of ITS sequences during stepwise dechlorination of PCE to cis-DCE was then investigated (Fig. 6). The Wolinella-afliated ITS was detected in the inoculum and during the rst 2 days of cultivation, but disappeared in the following,
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suggesting that Wolinella was largely present in the inoculum but not involved in dechlorination. Both Sulfurospirillum-afliated ITS sequences seemed to evolve similarly with a clear increase in relative abundance starting from day 3. Hence, these results did unfortunately not allow elucidating whether the rst dechlorination step from PCE to TCE was catalyzed by a Sulfurospirillum population expressing the Shal-pceA homolog and the second by another Sulfurospirillum spp. population expressing the Smul-pceA homolog.
Discussion
The enrichment culture SL2 obtained from a bioreactor treating PCE-contaminated groundwater contained mainly Sulfurospirillum- and Dehalococcoides-afliated bacteria. The creation of different transfer lines
similar to the subcultures described for culture KB1 (Waller et al. 2005) and another PCE-dechlorinating consortium (Yang et al. 2005) allowed to obtain rst indications about the roles of the two populations in the dechlorination of PCE to ethene. Sulfurospirillumafliated bacteria were mainly involved in PCE dechlorination to cis-DCE whereas Dehalococcoides spp. was mainly but probably not exclusively dechlorinating cis-DCE to VC and ethene. T-RFLP analysis of the transfer line SL2-PCEb dechlorinating PCE to cis-DCE only contained the T-RF corresponding to Sulfurospirillum spp. and no clones containing Deth-tceA homologues were obtained from this transfer line. The transfer procedure applied for SL2-PCEb was apparently very selective and allowed only Sulfurospirillum-afliated bacteria to remain in these cultures. That does however not exclude that Dehalococcoides-afliated bacteria were not also dechlorinating PCE and certainly TCE when both populations were present like in transfer line SL2-PCEa. A similar phenomenon has been described for a consortium containingDesultobacterium spp. and Dehalococcoides spp. (Yang et al. 2005).
Whereas other studies described PCE-dechlorinating consortia composed of either different strains of Dehalococcoides spp. (Duhamel et al. 2002; Holmes et al. 2006), Desultobacterium spp. and Dehalococcoides spp. (Szynalski 2003; Yang et al. 2005; Bunge et al. 2007), and Dehalobacter spp. and
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Dehalococcoides spp. (Daprato et al. 2007), this seems to be the rst consortium to be described where Sulfurospirillum spp. and Dehalococcoides spp. dechlorinate PCE to ethene in a concerted action.
The need of acetate as carbon source if molecular hydrogen was provided as electron donor corresponds with the physiological properties of organohalide respiring members of the two bacterial genera detected in SL2. Both S. multivorans and alsoS. halorespirans need an organic carbon source upon growth with hydrogen (Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 1995; Luijten et al. 2003). All members of Dehalococcoides spp. are so far described as organ-ohalide respiring bacteria restricted to hydrogen as electron donor and needing acetate as carbon source (Tas et al. 2009). In the inoculum originating from a bioreactor treating PCE-contaminated groundwater and in the rst enrichment cultures thereof, Dehalobacter spp. that has the same physiological characteristics as Dehalococcoides spp. has been detected as well (Rouzeau-Szynalski et al. 2011). However, this organohalide respiring population was apparently eliminated during the regular transfers and could not maintain itself in the consortium.
The presence of rdhA genes which were very similar to pceA of S. multivorans and S. halorespirans and to tceA of D. ethenogenes strain 195, corroborated the analysis of 16S rRNA genes revealing that Sulfurospirillum spp. and Dehalococcoides spp. were present in SL2. The presence of these three genes also suggested that at least two genes were present in SL2 possibly involved in dechlorination of PCE and three in dechlorination of TCE. The time series experiment on DNA level with SL2-PCEa indicated that the pceA genes were responsible for PCE dechlorination since they increased in abundance during this dechlorination step. The abundance of the tceA gene that started to increase during TCE and certainly cis-DCE dechlorination indicated that this gene was involved in TCE dechlorination and responsible for the cis-DCE dechlorination observed. The dechlorination pattern observed in SL2 with a very slow dechlori-nation of VC to ethene suggested that specic genes of VC reductive dehalogenases were not present in SL2 as indicated by PCR detection with specic primers for the known VC reductive dehalogenase genes vcrA and bvcA that did not result in a positive response in DNA samples of SL2. Hence, tceA was probably the rdhA gene responsible for
dechlorination beyond cis-DCE in SL2. In a TCE enrichment designated ANAS where two Dehalococcoides populations have been identied, evidence has been presented that a tceA-containing population was responsible for TCE and cis-DCE dechlorination whereas a vcrA-containing population was dechlorinating VC to ethene (Holmes et al. 2006).
In other studies where dechlorinating consortia have been characterized for the presence of organ-ohalide respiring bacteria and reductive dehalogenase genes, multiple strains and multiple rdhA genes have been detected and different approaches have been chosen to assign a specic role to the individual strains and rdhA genes. In the ANAS enrichment mentioned above two Dehalococcoides populations, one containing tceA and the other vcrA, have been identied by the use of quantitative PCR for 16S rRNA and reductive dehalogenase genes and by creating subcultures on individual chloroethenes similar to what was done in this study (Holmes et al. 2006). Transcription analysis applied to rdhA genes of subcultures of ANAS on individual chloroethenes has shown that both tceA and vcrA have been expressed simultaneously, even during dechlorination of TCE to cis-DCE (Lee et al. 2006). The mixed culture KB1 has been described to contain multiple Dehalococcoides populations too based on subcultures on different chloroethenes and the characterization of their substrate utilization patterns and bacterial community composition determined by DGGE (Duhamel et al. 2002). Transcription analysis of the different rdhA genes present in KB1 did however not allow elucidating which rdhA gene was involved in which dechlorination step (Waller et al. 2005). In the present study, the time series experiments together with the SSCP approach on DNA and RNA level allowed obtaining indications about the involvement of the three major rdhA genes present in SL2. The rather atypical dechlorination pattern with strong TCE accumulation prior to cis-DCE formation could thus be described as a process involving the subsequent transcription of two pceA genes, one responsible for PCE dechlorination to TCE, the other, possibly together with the rst one, for the dechlorination of TCE to cis-DCE. The accumulation of TCE has been reported during growth of S. multivorans (Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 1995) and also in cell suspensions of the same bacterium (Neumann et al.
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1995), but never to the extent observed in SL2 cultures. Although the ITS analysis provided indications for the presence of two Sulfurospirillum populations in SL2, it was unfortunately not possible to assign the rst dechlorination step to one population and the second to the other.
The SSCP approach developed and presented here is a useful tool to rapidly analyze environmental and culture samples for individual rdhA genes and to obtain qualitative and semi-quantitative information on the presence and transcription of these genes. Although qPCR is a more quantitative mean to study the transcription of individual genes, it would probably have been impossible to distinguish the two pceA genes in SL2 by qPCR because of their very similar gene sequences. The SSCP approach developed here for the analysis of three specic rdhA genes can certainly be adapted to the analysis of other rdhA genes and thus be used as rapid analytical tool for large scale screening of sites undergoing natural attenuation as well as biostimulated or bioaugmented in situ bioremediation.
Acknowledgments M.-P. Charnay was nanced during her visit to LBE by the Ministry of agriculture of France (AgroParisTech). Part of this work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation grants 3152-55413 and 3100-066957, by a grant of the Swiss Federal Ofce for Education and Science (contract 99.0362) in the framework of the EU project MAROC (EVK1-1999-00023), and by the project BIOTOOL (GOCE-003998) of the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme. We are grateful to Magdalena Sanchez for the excellent technical support and to Janneke Krooneman from Bioclear BV, Groningen, The Netherlands, for supplying the sample used for enrichment inoculation.
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