Impacts of engineered nanoparticles and antibiotics on denitrification: Element cycling functional genes and antibiotic resistance genes

Autor: Ruijie Zhang, Xuming Xu, Yitao Lyu, Ying Zhou, Qian Chen, Weiling Sun
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Vol 241, Iss , Pp 113787- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0147-6513
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113787
Popis: The wide presence of antibiotics and minerals warrants their combined effects on the denitrification in natural aquatic environment. Herein, we investigated the effects of two antibiotics, sulfamethazine (SMZ) and chlortetracycline (CTC), on the reduction of NO3--N and accumulation of NO2--N in the absence and presence of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) (Al2O3, SiO2, and geothite) using 16 S rRNA sequencing and high-throughput quantitative PCR. The results showed that the addition of antibiotics inhibited the reduction of NO3--N by changing the bacterial community structure and reducing the abundance of denitrification genes, while engineered NPs promoted the denitrification by increasing the abundance of denitrification genes. In the binary systems, engineered NPs alleviated the inhibitory effect of antibiotics through enriching the denitrification genes and adsorbing antibiotics. Antibiotics and its combination with engineered NPs changed the composition of functional genes related to C, N, P, S metabolisms (p
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