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- Title
Use of real-time QPCR in biokinetics and modeling of two different ammonia-oxidizing bacteria growing simultaneously.
- Authors
Cho, Kyungjin; Nguyen, Duong; Lee, Seungyong; Hwang, Seokhwan
- Abstract
A real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) was used to evaluate biokinetic coefficients of Nitrosomonas nitrosa and N. cryotolerans clusters growing simultaneously in a batch mode of ammonia oxidation. The mathematical models based on Monod equation were employed to describe the competitive relationship between these clusters and were fitted to experimental data to obtain biokinetic values. The maximum growth rates ( μ), half-saturation coefficients ( K), microbial yields ( Y) and decay coefficients ( k) of N. nitrosa and N. cryotolerans were 1.77 and 1.21 day, 23.25 and 23.06 mg N·L, 16 × 10 and 1 × 10 copies·mg N, 0.26 and 0.20 day, respectively. The estimated coefficients were applied for modeling continuous operations at various hydraulic retention times (HRTs) with an influent ammonia concentration of 300 mg N·L. Modeling results revealed that ammonia oxidation efficiencies were achieved 55-98 % at 0.8-10 days HRTs and that the system was predicted to be washed out at HRT of 0.7 days. Overall, use of QPCR for estimating biokinetic coefficients of the two AOB cluster growing simultaneously by use of ammonia were successful. This idea may open a new direction towards biokinetics of ammonia oxidation in which respirometry tests are usually employed.
- Subjects
POLYMERASE chain reaction; AMMONIA-oxidizing bacteria; BACTERIAL growth; NITROSOMONAS; COEFFICIENTS (Statistics); OXIDATION of ammonia; GROWTH rate
- Publication
Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 9, p1015
- ISSN
1367-5435
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10295-013-1297-z