@article {1570,
	title = {Effect of nutrient and selective inhibitor amendments on methane oxidation, nitrous oxide production, and key gene presence and expression in landfill cover soils: characterization of the role of methanotrophs, nitrifiers, and denitrifiers.},
	journal = {Appl Microbiol Biotechnol},
	volume = {85},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009 Nov},
	pages = {389-403},
	abstract = {<p>Methane and nitrous oxide are both potent greenhouse gasses, with global warming potentials approximately 25 and 298 times that of carbon dioxide. A matrix of soil microcosms was constructed with landfill cover soils collected from the King Highway Landfill in Kalamazoo, Michigan and exposed to geochemical parameters known to affect methane consumption by methanotrophs while also examining their impact on biogenic nitrous oxide production. It was found that relatively dry soils (5\% moisture content) along with 15 mg NH (4) (+) (kg soil)(-1) and 0.1 mg phenylacetylene(kg soil)(-1) provided the greatest stimulation of methane oxidation while minimizing nitrous oxide production. Microarray analyses of pmoA showed that the methanotrophic community structure was dominated by Type II organisms, but Type I genera were more evident with the addition of ammonia. When phenylacetylene was added in conjunction with ammonia, the methanotrophic community structure was more similar to that observed in the presence of no amendments. PCR analyses showed the presence of amoA from both ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea, and that the presence of key genes associated with these cells was reduced with the addition of phenylacetylene. Messenger RNA analyses found transcripts of pmoA, but not of mmoX, nirK, norB, or amoA from either ammonia-oxidizing bacteria or archaea. Pure culture analyses showed that methanotrophs could produce significant amounts of nitrous oxide, particularly when expressing the particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO). Collectively, these data suggest that methanotrophs expressing pMMO played a role in nitrous oxide production in these microcosms.</p>},
	keywords = {Archaea, Bacteria, Base Sequence, DNA, DNA Primers, DNA, Archaeal, DNA, Bacterial, Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, Inorganic Chemicals, Methane, Nitrites, Nitrogen, Nitrogen Oxides, Nitrous Oxide, Oxidation-Reduction, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA, Bacterial, RNA, Messenger, Soil, Water Pollutants, Chemical},
	issn = {1432-0614},
	doi = {10.1007/s00253-009-2238-7},
	author = {Lee, Sung-Woo and Im, Jeongdae and Dispirito, Alan A and Bodrossy, Levente and Barcelona, Michael J and Semrau, Jeremy D}
}
@article {736,
	title = {Hydrogenotrophic denitrification and perchlorate reduction in ion exchange brines using membrane biofilm reactors.},
	journal = {Biotechnol Bioeng},
	volume = {104},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009 Oct 15},
	pages = {483-91},
	abstract = {Halophilic (salt loving), hydrogenotrophic (H(2) oxidizing) denitrifying bacteria were investigated for treatment of nitrate (NO3-) and perchlorate (ClO4-) contaminated groundwater and ion exchange (IX) brines. Hydrogenotrophic denitrifying bacteria were enriched from a denitrifying wastewater seed under both halophilc and non-halophilc conditions. The cultures were inoculated into bench-scale membrane biofilm reactors (MBfRs) with an "outside in" configuration, with contaminated water supplied to the lumen of the membranes and H(2) supplied to the shell. Abiotic mass transfer tests showed that H(2) mass transfer coefficients were lower in brines than in tap water at highest Reynolds number, possibly due to increased transport of salts and decreased H(2) solubility at the membrane/liquid interface. An average NO3- removal efficiency of 93\% was observed for the MBfR operated in continuous flow mode with synthetic contaminated groundwater. Removal efficiencies of 30\% for NO3- and 42\% for ClO4- were observed for the MBfR operated with synthetic IX brine in batch operating mode with a reaction time of 53 h. Phylogenetic analysis focused on the active microbial community and revealed that halotolerant, NO3- -reducing bacteria of the bacterial classes Gamma-Proteobacteria and Sphingobacteria were the metabolically dominant members within the stabilized biofilm. This study shows that, despite decreased H(2) transfer under high salt conditions, hydrogenotrophic biological reduction may be successfully used for the treatment of NO3- and ClO- in a MBfR.},
	keywords = {Bacteroidetes, Biofilms, Cluster Analysis, DNA, Bacterial, DNA, Ribosomal, Gammaproteobacteria, Hydrogen, Ion Exchange, Membranes, Molecular Sequence Data, Nitrites, Oxidation-Reduction, Perchloric Acid, Phylogeny, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Water Purification},
	issn = {1097-0290},
	doi = {10.1002/bit.22414},
	author = {Sahu, Ashish K and Conneely, Teresa and N{\"u}sslein, Klaus and Ergas, Sarina J}
}
