Biotransformation of acyclovir by an enriched nitrifying culture

Yifeng Xu; Zhiguo Yuan; Bing-Jie Ni

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.12.014

Biotransformation of acyclovir by an enriched nitrifying culture

Yifeng Xu
, Zhiguo Yuan
, Bing-Jie Ni^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This work evaluates the biodegradation of the antiviral drug acyclovir by an enriched nitrifying culture during ammonia oxidation and without the addition of ammonium. The study on kinetics was accompanied with the structural elucidation of biotransformation products through batch biodegradation experiments at two different initial levels of acyclovir (15 mg L⁻¹ and 15 μg L⁻¹). The pseudo first order kinetic studies of acyclovir in the presence of ammonium indicated the higher degradation rates under higher ammonia oxidation rates than those constant degradation rates in the absence of ammonium. The positive correlation was found between acyclovir degradation rate and ammonia oxidation rate, confirming the cometabolism of acyclovir by the enriched nitrifying culture in the presence of ammonium. Formation of the product carboxy-acyclovir (P239) indicated the main biotransformation pathway was aerobic oxidation of the terminal hydroxyl group, which was independent on the metabolic type (i.e. cometabolism or metabolism). This enzyme-linked reaction might be catalyzed by monooxygenase from ammonia oxidizing bacteria or heterotrophs. The formation of carboxy-acyclovir was demonstrated to be irrelevant to the acyclovir concentrations applied, indicating the revealed biotransformation pathway might be the dominant removal pathway of acyclovir in wastewater treatment. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-32
Journal	Chemosphere
Volume	170
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.12.014
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2017
Externally published	Yes

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This study was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) through Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE130100451. Bing-Jie Ni acknowledges the support of ARC Discovery Project DP130103147 and The University of Queensland Foundation Research Excellence Award.

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Acyclovir
Ammonia oxidizing bacteria
Biotransformation
Cometabolism
Nitrification
Wastewater treatment

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