Biological treatment processes are an effective method for removing the nitrogen-containing contaminants that exist in coking wastewater. However, little is known about microbial composition and ...keystone taxa involved in biological nitrogen removal processes. In order to improve the removal efficiency of nitrogen-containing contaminants in anaerobic-aerobic-hydrolytic-aerobic (A/O1/H/O2) system, the microbial composition and interactions of keystone taxa should be clarified. The present work clarifies the removal performance of nitrogen-containing contaminants in the A/O1/H/O2 system, identifies the microbial community involved in various bioreactors, and reveals the keystone taxa within the microbial communities. Combined the processes of ammoniation, denitrification, and nitrification, total nitrogen decreased from 248 to 31 mg L-1 and achieved a removal efficiency of 87.5% in the full-scale A/O1/H/O2 system. High-throughput MiSeq sequencing revealed that Proteobacteria was the most abundant phylum in the A/O1/H/O2 system with relative abundances of 24%-50%. Thiobacillus dominated in bioreactors A and O1 with relative abundances of 2.90% and 4.44%, respectively, while Nitrospira was identified as the most dominant genus in bioreactors H and O2, accounting for 13.33% and 18.38%, respectively. The microbial community composition and co-occurrence network analysis showed that the keystone taxa belonged to Thiobacillus, Nitrospira, Bdellovibrio, Planctomyces, Desulfotomaculum, and Sphingobium, which are related to nitrogen degradation.
•The novel viral community involved in CWW treatment system was studied by viromics.•The diversities of viruses and AMGs decreased along the CWW treatment process.•Viral AMGs are involved in ...contaminants removal and resistance to environmental stresses.•The hosts of viruses were dominantly Pseudomonas, Acidovorax and Thauera genera.•The symbiotic virus-bacteria interaction patterns in CWW treatment were proposed.
Biological treatment is commonly used in coking wastewater (CWW) treatment. Prokaryotic microbial communities in CWW treatment have been comprehensively studied. However, viruses, as the critical microorganisms affecting microbial processes and thus engineering parameters, still remain poorly understood in CWW treatment context. Employing viromics sequencing, the composition and function of the viral community in CWW treatment were discovered, revealing novel viral communities and key auxiliary metabolic functions. Caudovirales appeared to be the predominant viral order in the oxic-hydrolytic-oxic (OHO) CWW treatment combination, showing relative abundances of 62.47 %, 56.64 % and 92.20 % in bioreactors O1, H and O2, respectively. At the family level, Myoviridae, Podoviridae and Siphoviridae mainly prevailed in bioreactors O1 and H while Phycodnaviridae dominated in O2. A total of 56.23–92.24% of novel viral contigs defied family-level characterization in this distinct CWW habitat. The virus-host prediction results revealed most viruses infecting the specific functional taxa Pseudomonas, Acidovorax and Thauera in the entire OHO combination, demonstrating the viruses affecting bacterial physiology and pollutants removal from CWW. Viral auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) were screened, revealing their involvement in the metabolism of contaminants and toxicity tolerance. In the bioreactor O1, AMGs were enriched in detoxification and phosphorus ingestion, where glutathione S-transferase (GSTs) and beta-ketoadipyl CoA thiolase (fadA) participated in biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and phenols, respectively. In the bioreactors H and O2, the AMGs focused on cell division and epicyte formation of the hosts, where GDPmannose 4,6-dehydratase (gmd) related to lipopolysaccharides biosynthesis was considered to play an important role in the growth of nitrifiers. The diversities of viruses and AMGs decreased along the CWW treatment process, pointing to a reinforced virus-host adaptive strategy in stressful operation environments. In this study, the symbiotic virus-bacteria interaction patterns were proposed with a theoretical basis for promoting CWW biological treatment efficiency. The findings filled the gaps in the virus-bacteria interactions at the full-scale CWW treatment and provided great value for understanding the mechanism of biological toxicity and sludge activity in industrial wastewater treatment.
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Pleural effusion affects gas exchange, hemodynamic stability, and respiratory movement, thereby increasing the failure rate of intensive care unit discharge and mortality. Therefore, it is especially ...important to diagnose pleural effusion quickly to make the appropriate treatment decisions. The present review discusses the role of ultrasound in the diagnosis and puncture/drainage of pleural effusions and highlights the importance of lung ultrasound techniques in this patient population. We searched on PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases for articles from establishment to October 2022 using the following keywords: "lung ultrasound", "pulmonary ultrasound", "pleural effusion", "ultrasound-guided" and "thoracentesis". Lung ultrasound not only helps clinicians visualize pleural effusion but also to identify its different types and assess pleural effusion volume. It is also very important for thoracentesis, not only to increase safety and reduce life-threatening complications, but also to monitor the amount of fluid after drainage of pleural effusion. Lung ultrasound is a simple, noninvasive bedside technique with good sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis and treatment of pleural effusions.
Light is one of the natural resources greatly influencing plant growth, and light regulation has been recently considered one of the effective means of enhancing phytoremediation. In this study, ...monochromatic (red, blue, green), bichromatic (red and blue light combinations at different ratios), and trichromatic (red, blue, and green light combinations at different ratios) lights were applied at the same intensity (100 ± 5 μmol m−2 s−1) to enhance cadmium (Cd) accumulation in Bidens pilosa L. Compared with the control (fluorescent light), the translocation factor (TF), bioconcentration factor (BCF), and total metal extraction (TE) values of the plant were increased by 13.47–99.24%, 5.33–39.64%, and 20.51–109.62%, respectively, under light-emitting diode (LED) irradiation. The highest BCF and TE values were observed in plants under R20B70G10 (20% red, 70% blue, and 10% green light) irradiation, whereas a higher TF value was detected in plants under the condition of R50B50 (50% red and 50% blue light) and R20B70G10. Hierarchical clustering and heatmap analysis showed that trichromatic light influenced plant growth, photosynthesis, antioxidant enzyme activity, and soluble protein contents more than bichromatic and monochromatic lights. Additionally, the abundances of rhizosphere microbes and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, such as Lysobacter and Ramlibacter, were significantly higher under LED irradiation, along with enhanced soil enzyme activity. Our findings suggested that the R20B70G10 trichromatic light efficiently induces plant Cd extraction and can significantly improve the phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated soils by Bidens pilosa L.
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•Light combinations stimulate the growth and enhance photosynthesis of Bides pilosa L.•Plants exposed to a combination of light can activate various soil enzymes.•Light combinations can increase the abundance of rhizosphere microbial communities.•Suitable light quality can improve metal accumulation in Bides pilosa L.•Trichromatic light R20B70G10 presents the best solution for plant extraction of Cd.
The hydrolytic acidification process has a strong ability to conduct denitrogenation and increase the biological oxygen demand/chemical oxygen demand ratio in O/H/O coking wastewater treatment ...system. More than 80% of the total nitrogen (TN) was removed in the hydrolytic bioreactor, and the hydrolytic acidification process contributed to the provision of carbon sources for the subsequent nitrification process. The structure and diversity of microbial communities were elaborated using high-throughput MiSeq of the 16S rRNA genes. The results revealed that the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) belonged to phyla Bacteroidetes, Betaproteobacteria, and Alphaproteobacteria were the dominant taxa involved in the denitrogenation and degradation of refractory contaminants in the hydrolytic bioreactor, with relative abundances of 22.94 ± 3.72, 29.77 ± 2.47, and 18.23 ± 0.26%, respectively. The results of a redundancy analysis showed that the OTUs belonged to the genera
Thiobacillus
,
Rhodoplanes
, and
Hylemonella
in the hydrolytic bioreactor strongly positively correlated with the chemical oxygen demand, TN, and the removal of phenolics, respectively. The results of a microbial co-occurrence network analysis showed that the OTUs belonged to the phylum Bacteroidetes and the genus
Rhodoplanes
had a significant impact on the efficiency of removal of contaminants that contained nitrogen in the hydrolytic bioreactor. The potential function profiling results indicate the complementarity of nitrogen metabolism, methane metabolism, and sulfur metabolism sub-pathways that were considered to play a significant role in the process of denitrification. These results provide new insights into the further optimization of the performance of the hydrolytic bioreactor in coking wastewater treatment.
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Bacteriophages can help the treatment of bacterial infections yet require in-silico models to deal with the great genetic diversity between phages and bacteria. Despite the tolerable ...prediction performance, the application scope of current approaches is limited to the prediction at the species level, which cannot accurately predict the relationship of phages across strain mutants. This has hindered the development of phage therapeutics based on the prediction of phage–bacteria relationships. In this paper, we present, PB-LKS, to predict the phage–bacteria interaction based on local K-mer strategy with higher performance and wider applicability. The utility of PB-LKS is rigorously validated through (i) large-scale historical screening, (ii) case study at the class level and (iii) in vitro simulation of bacterial antiphage resistance at the strain mutant level. The PB-LKS approach could outperform the current state-of-the-art methods and illustrate potential clinical utility in pre-optimized phage therapy design.
•A model capable of formulating the nonlinearity of the centrifuge shaking table.•A control method to achieve high-fidelity earthquake tracking control.•Higher acceleration tracking accuracy compared ...with fixed-parameter methods.•Simplify the experimental process compared with transfer function iteration method.
The electro-hydraulic centrifuge shaking table is an effective equipment to investigate the seismic response of large scale structures. However, the shaking table system possesses inherent nonlinearity. In addition, the frequency and acceleration of the motion to be simulated in centrifuge environment are larger than those in normal gravity according to the scaling law. The vibration frequency required in the rigid structure testing should be especially high. Such operation condition enlarges the influence of system nonlinearity on the acceleration tracking accuracy, making it difficult to achieve high-fidelity control of the centrifuge shaking table. In this paper, an additional variable is introduced to the frequency characteristic model to formulate the system nonlinearity. A variable-parameter feedforward control method is proposed to improve acceleration tracking accuracy of the centrifuge shaking table for rigid structure testing. The method can adjust control parameters offline to adapt to various operation conditions. Compared with the traditional command shaping method, no iteration is required in the proposed method, which saves manpower and resources. Experimental verification shows that the proposed method possesses better phase characteristic and higher tracking accuracy than conventional fixed-parameter control methods.
Primary hepatocytes (PH) have been widely used in metabolic and disease-resistance mechanism research. However, hepatocyte isolation (HI) remains challenging in ducks. This study aimed to explore ...embryonic growth and the effect of embryonic age (EA) on the quantitative and functional characteristics of PH in ducks. For embryonic growth, the size and weight of the embryo and liver were determined from 6 to 28 EA (E6–E28, similar below). As EA increased, the corresponding size and weight grew significantly. Specifically, embryonic length varied from 12.5 mm to 133.0 mm, and liver width varied from 2.0 mm to 26.2 mm. Embryonic weight ranged from 0.259 g to 53.58 g, and liver weight ranged from 0.007 g to 1.765 g. Liver index initially decreased and then increased with a ratio ranging from 1.06 to 3.29%. For quantitative and functional characteristics, they were determined from E6 to E22, as there were no obvious liver features before E6 and few cells obtained after E22. The number of cells isolated in liver increased from E6 to E16 and then sharply decreased from E16 to E22. The viability remained relatively stable from E6 to E10 and then decreased from E12 to E22. The comprehensive intensity of hepatic glycogen was stronger at E8 and E14. Albumin expression increased markedly from E6 to E18 by qPCR, and the overall albumin expression was stronger at E8 and E14 by immunofluorescence assay. Hepatocyte purity exceeded 90% except for E20 and E22. During culture, cell clusters appeared after 24-h culture, which were identified as nonhepatocytes. The growth curve showed an initial increase in cell quantity followed by a decrease, another increase, and then remaining stable. In conclusion, EA had a significant effect on the quantitative and functional characteristics of PH, and the suitable EA for HI were E8 and E14. Considering better operability and quantity, E14 was the optimal EA, laying a solid foundation for further hepatocyte purification, nutrient metabolism, and disease-resistance mechanism explorations in ducks.
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