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Methanogenic Community Composition in An Int. Agrophys., 2017, 31, 327-338 doi: 10.1515/intag-2016-0057 Methanogenic community composition in an organic waste mixture in an anaerobic bioreactor** Agata Gryta1, Karolina Oszust1, Małgorzata Brzezińska1, Krzysztof Ziemiński2, Nina Bilińska-Wielgus1, and Magdalena Frąc1* 1Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin, Poland 2Institute of Fermentation Technology and Microbiology, Łódź University of Technology, Wólczańska 171/173, 90-924 Łódź, Poland Received October 25, 2016; accepted June 1, 2017 A b s t r a c t. The aim of the study was to elucidate the sub- is microbially mediated engineering with the goals of de- stantial relationship between the compositions of methanogen gradation and stabilisation of organic matter, which results community that assembles in the anaerobic digester mass and in the production of energy-rich composites. This process link it to methane production activity. The results of the meta- involves four sequential steps: hydrolysis, fermentation genomic studies were used to evaluate how the methanogen (acidogenesis), acetogenesis (dehydrogenation) and metha- structure changes during an anaerobic digestion process under various waste retention times (21, 23, 25, 29, 33, 39, 47 and 61 nogenesis (acetoclastic or hydrogenotrophic), all of which days). Phylogenetically coherent populations of methanogens depend on the synergistic interactions of microorganisms were assessed by 16S rRNA gene next-generation sequencing and that form a complex metabolic network. This special pro- terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism fingerprint- cess is catalysed especially by methanogenic Archaea. This ing of a specific molecular marker, the mcrA gene. The results unrepeatable group of microorganisms has the capability to indicated multiple phylogenetically diverse methanogen popu- produce methane from basic substrates, such as CO2, H2, ace- lations associated with the various steps of anaerobic digestion. tate or C1 compounds e.g. methanol, methylamines and me- The stages of the anaerobic digestion process and waste retention thylthiols (Frąc and Ziemiński, 2012; Walter et al., 2012). times determine the microbial composition. The most dominant Methanogens reside in many anaerobic environments, and acclimated microbial communities in all samples belonged to the genera Methanosaeta and Methanobacterium. The methane such as sediments, digesters and municipal waste landfill yield was consistent with the results of the microbial community sites (Garcia et al., 2000; Song et al., 2015), and are a dif- structure, which indicated that acetotrophic Methanosaeta was the ficult group to isolate or culture under laboratory condi- most active and most important during the methanogenic stage. tions (Enitan et al., 2014; Pervin et al., 2013). Therefore, K e y w o r d s: anaerobic digestion, methanogenic activity, the development of molecular methods that are independ- methanogenic Archaea, NGS, t-RFLP ent from cultivation is gaining importance. This approach allows the genetic diversity and dynamics of methanogenic INTRODUCTION Archaea to be analysed. Methanogens may be efficiently In recent years, the amount of agricultural wastes has in- targeted in molecular ecological analyses by using a speci- creased rapidly. Dairy sewage sludge and fruit waste with fic molecular marker, such as themcrA gene, which encodes high organic matter content (more than 60%) can be used in the α-subunit of methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) anaerobic digestion as a major source of renewable energy (EC 2.8.4.1). This is the key enzyme of methanogenesis, (Frąc and Ziemiński, 2012). Methanogenesis is an essen- which reduces the coenzyme M-bound methyl group to tial biochemical process involved in the mineralization of methane (Shah et al., 2014). This enzyme is unique to organic matter in anaerobic conditions and in degradation methanogens, where the highly conserved gene mcrA is of certain toxins (Whang et al., 2015). Anaerobic digestion found only in this group of microorganisms, whereas other enzymes involved in methanogenesis, such as methylene *Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected] **This work was funded from the budget for science by the National Centre for Research and Development in Poland, LIDER © 2017 Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences Programme 2011-2014. 328 A. GRYTA et al. tetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase and methenyl tet- ty will identify the essential step and methanogens involved rahydromethanopterin cyclohydrolase appear in another in it, which will affect biogas profitability. This innovative group of C1-utilising microorganisms. Therefore, identi- approach was aimed to be achieved using knowledge of fying methanogens that occur in environmental samples the community dynamics and the functional stability of the by comparative mcrA (as a functional marker) sequence process under various retention times. analysis could be performed for the following methanogen Despite an increasing number of biogas treatment plants groups: Methanosarcinaceae, Methanosaetaceae, Methano- that are being built in many countries, microbial biocenoses bacteriales, Methanococcales and Methanomicrobiales of biogas-producing facilities is still not fully understood (Steinberg and Regan, 2008). and is often regarded as a black-box. Knowledge of micro- Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism bial communities involved in anaerobic digestion processes (t-RFLP) fingerprinting and next-generation sequencing is extremely important because the microorganism pro- (NGS) are methods frequently used in the methanogenic file in a bioreactor depends on the type of biomass used community analysis. T-RFLP analysis can be used to assess (Abendroth et al., 2015). the genetic diversity, structure and dynamics of microbial The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of populations (Kitts, 2001). T-RFLP is a PCR- (polymer- retention time on the methanogen community structures ase chain reactions) technique, where the amplicons are using the t-RFLP and NGS approaches and methanogen- digested with restriction endonucleases. Subsequently, fluo- ic activity. The objective of this study is also to provide rescently labelled terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) a more precise view of the biological processes and prima- are separated and visualised by electrophoresis on an auto- ry microbial communities involved in anaerobic digestion mated genetic analyser. Genetic analysis of community of organic wastes. environmental samples by sequencing is also an important tool for understanding functional and ecological biodiver- MATERIALS AND METHODS sity. However, when a traditional DNA-sequencing method Total solid (TS), volatile solid (VS), ash, phosphorus, is used, each specimen must be analysed separately. This pH and volatile fatty acids were determined according to approach is inadequate for environmental samples, particu- standard methods (APHA, 1998), total nitrogen (TKN) by larly for large-scale research. Environmental samples could Kjeldahl method and chemical oxygen demand (COD) by contain mixtures of DNA from a large number of micro- a modified Raposo method (Raposoet al., 2008). organisms. Obtaining DNA sequences from thousands of A mixture of organic waste, which contained dairy se- specimens present in an environmental sample requires the wage sludge, fruit waste, corn silage and grain decoction ability to read DNA from multiple levels in parallel; this in proportions of 25, 25, 12, and 38%, respectively, was is the primary advantage of next-generation sequencing used in this study. The characteristics of the organic waste (NGS) technologies. mixture used in the experiment are shown in Table 1. The The metagenomics workflow employs the 16S rRNA anaerobic granular sludge harvested from an agricultural gene, which is commonly used for identification and clas- biogas plant was used as an inoculum in the anaerobic sification of bacteria. This small-sized fragment (approxi- digestion process after concentrating by sedimentation (for mately 1 500 bp) is ubiquitously present among prokary- 24 h) using an Imhoff funnel. otic organisms such as Bacteria and Archaea. In regular sequencing approaches, DNA is amplified with primers T a b l e 1. Characteristics of organic waste mixture that match with conserved 16S rRNA regions. Amplicons include at least one hypervariable region that could be used to sequence and classify bacteria. The metagenomics Parameter Mixture of waste workflow allows classification of reads at taxonomic le- Total solid (TS) (%) 11.70 vels: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, and genus or species. This stage is based on comparison and matching Volatile solid (VS) (% TS) 92.70 of short sequences from the reads to a set of 16S reference Ash (% TS) 7.30 sequences bases. The total number of classified clusters for each sample at each taxonomic level is the analysis result. Chemical oxygen demand (COD) 1.45 -1 There are a few scientific reports (Enitan et al., 2014; (g O2 kg TS) Esposito et al., 2012; Nikolausz et al., 2013) that have Total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) (% TS) 4.90 collated the microbial consortium involved in anaero- bic digestion for precise characterisation and comparison Phosphorus (g kg-1 TS) 6.87 to the methane yield efficiency derived from each stage pH 4.36 consortium. We hypothesise that gaining a data set on the methanogen composition using metagenomic tools and C/N 27.16 comparing it with the potential effectiveness of their activi- METHANOGENIC
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