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Establishment of a salt-induced bioremediation platform from marine Vibrio natriegens
Summary
Researchers engineered the salt-tolerant marine bacterium Vibrio natriegens with salt-responsive promoters to drive expression of pollutant-degrading genes, creating a bioremediation platform capable of functioning in high-salinity marine environments contaminated with plastics, petroleum, and heavy metals.
Industrial wastewater discharge, agricultural production, marine shipping, oil extraction, and other activities have caused serious marine pollution, including microplastics, petroleum and its products, heavy metals, pesticides, and other organics. Efficiency of bioremediation of marine pollutions may be limited by high salt concentrations (>1%, w/v), which can cause an apparent loss of microbial activities. In this study, functional promoters P1, P2-1, and P2-2 censoring salt stress were isolated and identified from a Vibrio natriegens strain Vmax. Three salt-induced degradation models were constructed to degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET), chlorpyrifos (CP), and hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) using the marine strain Vmax. The engineered strains are efficient for degradation of the corresponding substrates, with the degradation rates at 15 mg/L PET in 8 d, 50 mg/L CP in 24 h, and 1 mg/L HBCDs in 4 h, respectively. In addition, an immobilization strategy for recycling and reusing of engineered strains was realized by expressing the chitin-binding protein GbpA. This study may help answer the usage of rapidly growing marine bacteria such as V. natriegens Vmax to degrade marine pollution efficiently.
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