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Download Download Phycology International 2018; volume 1:55 Tolerance and metabolic bacteria5 or plants known for their ability to responses of Cyanidiophytina immobilize heavy metals in the cell wall and Correspondence: Claudia Ciniglia, DIS- compartmentalization in vacuoles. TABIF, “L. Vanvitelli” University of Caserta, (Rhodophyta) towards exposition Interestingly, polyextremophilic algae have Caserta, Italy. to Cl4K2Pd and AuCl4K the intrinsic properties that make them Tel.: +39.0823274582 – Fax: +39.0823274571. capable of selective removal and E-mail: [email protected] 1 1 concentration of metals, thanks to their Maria Sirakov, Elena Toscano, Key words: Metal tolerance; Red algae; Rare Manuela Iovinella,2 Seth J. Davis,2 adaptation to live in geothermal and volcanic Earth elements; Palladium; Gold. 6-8 Milena Petriccione,3 Claudia Ciniglia1 sites. Geothermal fluids leach out of the hot volcanic rocks and are enriched by 1DISTABIF, “L. Vanvitelli” University of Contributions: MS, ET: conduction of experi- enormous amounts of minerals and metals, ments, analysis of results, contribution to draft Caserta, Caserta, Italy; 2Department of including lithium, sulfur, boric acid and writings; MP: experiments on oxidative stress, Biology, University of York, York, UK; precious metals such as gold, platinum, analysis of results; MI, SJD: original concept, 3 Department of Fruit Tree Research palladium and silver.9 provision of resources; CC: original concept, Unit, Council for Agricultural Research Cyanidiophyceae, unicellular red algae, provision of resources, draft editing. and Agricultural Economy Analysis, survive in extreme conditions, very low pH Caserta, Italy Conflict of interest: the authors declare no (0.0-3.0) and high temperatures (37-55°C), potential conflict of interest. and colonize acid and hydrothermal sites, but also rocks and muddy soil around hot Received for publication: 23 December 2017. ponds.10 They belong to 3 genera: Revision received: 28 May 2018. Abstract Cyanidioschyzon, Cyanidium and Galdieria, Accepted for publication: 4 June 2018. which differ in size, cellular shape and Polyextremophilic algae, such as growth conditions. C. merolae is the only This work is licensed under a Creative unicellular red algae known as species belonging to Cyanidioschyzon genus Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 Cyanidiophyceae, have the intrinsic capacity License (CC BY-NC 4.0). to selectively mobilize and adsorb metals, and differs from the other two groups being only since they are adapted to live in geothermal lacking of cell wall and dividing by binary ©Copyright M. Sirakov et al., 2018 11 and volcanic sites characterized by elevated fission. Both Cyanidium and Galdieria are Licensee PAGEPress, Italy concentration of heavy and rare metals. In able to grow both on ammonia and nitrate, Phycology International 2018; 1:55 doi:10.4081/phycol.2018.55 this work we evaluated the ability of 3 the former is an obligatory autotrophuse strains of the genus Galdieria (G. maxima, whereas the species belonging to Galdieria 12 G. sulphuraria, G. phlegrea) along with one tolerate high concentrations of salts and strain of Cyanidium caldarium to tolerate can grow autotrophically and Materials and Methods different concentrations of rare metal as heterotrophically, thus making Galdieria the Algal strains and culture conditions Cl4K2Pd and AuCl4K by monitoring changes best candidates for biotechnological in algal growth in culture exposed to application into the recovery of REE as it has The algal strains used in this study different concentration of each metal and been already proposed in previous studies belong to the algal collection of the investigating algae metabolic response and from other groups.13-17 These algae are one University of Naples (www.acuf.net), possible oxidative stress induced by these of the few eukaryotes capable of adapting to namely ACUF 3.4.5 (G. maxima), ACUF metals. a very acidic environment. Because of the 7.6.21 (G. phlegrea), ACUF9.2.11 (G. sul- high temperature and acidic conditions, the phuraria) and ACUF 626 (C. caldarium). environment that these algae live in is All strains were mantained in liquid culture usually rich in metals; Galdieria sulphuraria in Allen medium,18 pH 1.5, at 37°C on a Introduction is the most suitable alga of all of the plexiglass shaking apparatus under a photon Cyanidiophitina for biotechnology irradiance of 150 μmol photons m-2 s-1 with In the last decade there is a remarkable experiments and applications because it is continuous light provided by cool-light flu- and growing demand for Rare Earth Non-commercialthe only one of these algae that can grow orescent lamps (Philips TLD30w/55). Elements (REE) due to their large use in the superconductors, catalysts and electronic autotrophically as well as heterotrophically, Experimental set up industry. On the other side, the issue of their using over 27 different kinds of sugar and discharge in the environment and the polyols to produce a huge biomass and 3ml of each culture at exponential phase 13 suitability of recycling REE from the beneficial compounds. In this report, we were transferred to a 24well-plate and the electronic waste (e-waste) is of interest of all have evaluated the ability of G. maxima, G. medium was supplemented with different the population because of their hazard for sulphuraria, G. phlegrea and C. caldarium metals concentrations (0,1gg/L-1g/L). Cell environment and health, besides their to tolerate different concentrations of REE growth was assessed by recording the opti- economic value. These issues become (such as palladium-Cl4K2Pd and Gold- cal density (OD) at 750 nm (Bausch & evident to the government of the different AuCl4K) by analyzing Maximum Growth Lomb Spectronic 20), at day 0 and day 4; States and electronic industries prone to Rate (MGR) and the inverse of Generation MGR and 1/GT were calculated according develop new methods of removal from the Time (1/GT).14 We also investigated to the formula [(Log10 ODday4 – Log10 environment, to recycle and re-input of REE metabolic response and possible oxidative ODday0)/4] and 1/[Ln(2)/MGR], respective- in the productive cycle of a closed loop stress induced by the metals, by monitoring ly. Three replicates were carried out for economy.1-4. Recently, biological methods superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase each test. have been developed to ensure the recovery (CAT), ascorbate peroxidase (APX) of small quantities of these mineral materials activities.15,16 Enzyme activity and wastewater systems, using mainly For measurement of enzyme activity [Phycology International 2018; 1:55] [page 1] Article algal cultures were transferred in falcon (1/GT). G. maxima was more sensitive to viceversa, the growth rate significantly and containing the metal at 1g/L in a final vol- AuCl4K showing a continuous decline in progressively increased at palladium con- ume of 30 ml and pellet was harvested by growth rate (Figure 1A), while the growth centrations from 1 to 10 g/L. C. caldarium centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 10min after of G. maxima declined at Cl4K2Pd 0,1g/L showed a high tolerance to Cl4K2Pd where- 96h of exposure. Pellet was washed using then sharply increased at higher as AuCl4K inhibited algal growth with the KH2PO4 (0.1M pH7.8) followed by cen- concentrations (Figure 1A). both gold and increase of metal concentration (Figure trifugation at 12000 rpm for 4 min at 4°C, palladium induced a significant decrease in 1D). twice. Proteins were extracted homogeniz- growth rate of G. phlegrea from 0.1g/L to ROS scavenging activities of SOD, ing the sample with liquid nitrogen using 10g/L (Figure 1B). As shown in Figure 1C, CAT and APX were assessed in all algae mortar and pestel, resuspending the powder the MGR and 1/GT in G. sulphuraria under Cl4K2Pd and AuCl4K at a concentra- obtained in 3ml of Lysis Buffer (KH2PO4 dropped at 0,1g/L in both metals; the algal tion of 1g/L, after 24 hours. The antioxidant 0.5M pH7.8, DTT 2mM, EDTA 1mM, growth was steady until 1g/L AuCl4K, then activity can be considered a measure of the PMSF 1mM, PEG 1,25mM), samples were sharply dropped at higher concentration; effectiveness of the cell to respond to the centrifuged at 14000rpm for 20 min at 4°C and the surnatant was used for measurement after Bradford quantification. SOD measurement was determined adding 100ml of protein extract to the buffer containing KH2PO4 50mM pH7.8, Na-EDTA 0.1mM pH7.0, Metionin 13mM, Nitro Blue Tetrazolium (NBT) 75mM, Riboflavin 2mM), after 15min exposure to the light samples were read at 560nm using a Spectrophotometer. Enzymatic activity was expressed as units/g of dry weight. CAT measurement was performed adding only 200ml of protein extract to the buffer con- taining KH2PO4 50mM pH7.8, H2O2 20mM and H2O up to 1ml. Absorbance was record- ed at 240nm for 100 sec. Enzymatic activity use was expressed as nmol H2O2/g of fresh weight. APX measurement was obtained adding 100ml of protein extract to the buffer containing KH2PO4 100mM pH7, Na-EDTA 0,66mM, Ascorbic Acid 0.33mM, H2O2 0.35mM. Absorbance at 290nm for 100sec was recorded. Enzymatic activity was expressed as mmol ascorbate/g of fresh weight. Each condition for each experimental approach was tested 3 times independently. Results and Discussion Cyanidiophyceae are polyextremophilicNon-commercial micro-algae with an intrinsic ability to uptake metals, involving both active and passive mechanisms. Heavy, rare or precious metals can influence algae physiology in various ways, likely inhibiting different physiological processes. In order to evaluate the suitability of Cyanidiophyceae for biotechnological application to effectively recover REE, we tested their tolerance to Cl4K2Pd and AuCl4K monitoring the growth and metabolic response of 4 different strains, exposed to each of these metals ranging from 0.1g/L up to 10g/L. The growth was Figure 1. Evaluation of metal tolerance monitoring MGR and 1/GT at day 4.
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