Journal article
Kinetics of trichloroethylene and toluene toxicity to Pseudomonas putida F1
Environmental toxicology and chemistry, Vol.29(1)
Jan 2010
PMID: 20821419
Abstract
The goal of the present study was to elucidate the distribution of viable bacteria in chemical gradients and to evaluate the toxic effect of high concentrations of contaminants on contaminant-degrading bacteria under prolonged exposure. Accumulations of viable Pseudomonas putida F1 (P. putida F1) cells were observed surrounding trichloroethylene (TCE)-containing plugs. Results from this work indicate that P. putida F1 immediately adjacent to a TCE source become nonviable, whereas cells accumulating farther away use chemotaxis to migrate toward regions with optimal chemical concentrations in the form of concentrated bacterial bands. A method was developed to test the toxicity of model contaminant stressors, TCE and toluene, to P. putida F1; data obtained from toxicity experiments were fit to linear and exponential bacterial viability-decay models. Toxicity of TCE to P. putida F1 was best described with an exponential viability-decay model, with a viability-decay constant k(TCE) = 0.025 h(-4.95) (r(2) = 0.965). Toluene toxicity showed a marginally better fit to the linear viability-decay model (r(2) = 0.976), with a viability-decay constant k(toluene) = 0.208 h(-1). Best-fit model parameters obtained for both TCE and toluene were used to predict bacterial viability in toxicity experiments with higher contaminant concentrations and matched well with experimental data. Results from the present study can be used to predict bacterial accumulation and viability near nonaqueous-phase liquid (NAPL) sources in groundwater and may be helpful in designing bioremediation strategies for sites contaminated with residual NAPLs.
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- Title
- Kinetics of trichloroethylene and toluene toxicity to Pseudomonas putida F1
- Creators
- Rajveer Singh - Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USAMira Stone Olson
- Publication Details
- Environmental toxicology and chemistry, Vol.29(1)
- Publisher
- Wiley; United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Identifiers
- 991014878146104721
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