<i>Zavarzinia compransoris </i>capable of degrading organophosphorus flame retardant and use thereof

Abstract

Zavarzinia compransoris capable of degrading an organophosphorus flame retardant and a use of Zavarzinia compransoris. A GDUTXIONG2 strain of Zavarzinia compransoris capable of degrading an organophosphorus flame retardant is obtained by research, the strain is preserved in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) on 10 Jun. 2022, and the accession number is CCTCC NO: M2022855. The GDUTXIONG2 strain has an excellent degradation ability to an organophosphorus flame retardant, the rate of degradation on an organophosphorus flame retardant, i.e., Tris(1,3-dichloroisopropyl)phosphate (TDCPP) can reach more than 99.9%, and the GDUTXIONG2 strain is an efficient degrading bacterium. The GDUTXIONG2 strain can be used for preparing a degrading bacterial agent, is pollution-free and nuisance-free during use, and can be better used for used for the remediation and treatment of the environment polluted by organophosphorus flame retardants.

Claims

1. A Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 strain capable of degrading organophosphorus flame retardants, wherein the strain has been deposited in China Center for Type Culture Collection on Jun. 10, 2022, with the accession number CCTCC NO: M 2022855.

2. A method of use of the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 strain of claim 1 in degradation of organophosphorus flame retardants, wherein the organophosphorus flame retardant is tris (1,3-dichloropropyl) phosphate.

3. A method of use of the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 strain of claim 1 in preparation of a degrading microbial agent for organophosphorus flame retardants, wherein the organophosphorus flame retardant is tris (1,3-dichloropropyl) phosphate.

4. A method of use of the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 strain of claim 1 in remediation of environments contaminated with organophosphorus flame retardants, wherein the organophosphorus flame retardant is tris (1,3-dichloropropyl) phosphate.

5. A degrading microbial agent for organophosphorus flame retardants, comprising the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 strain of claim 1 and/or a bacterial liquid thereof.

6. The degrading microbial agent of claim 5, wherein the concentration of the bacterial liquid is not less than 2.010.sup.6 CFU/mL.

7. A method for degrading organophosphorus flame retardants, wherein the organophosphorus flame retardant is treated with the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 strain of claim 1 and/or the bacterial liquid thereof; the organophosphorus flame retardant is tris (1,3-dichloropropyl) phosphate.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein an inoculum size of the strain is 1%-10%.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein treatment conditions are: pH 6.5-7.5, temperature 30-40 C., and time 24-120 h.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1 is a morphological map of a single colony of Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2;

(2) FIG. 2 is a view showing the morphology of the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 strain under an electron scanning microscope;

(3) FIG. 3 is a graph of the homology analysis of Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2;

(4) FIG. 4 is a graph of the degradation rate of Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 at different initial TDCPP concentrations;

(5) FIG. 5 is a graph of the degradation rate of TDCPP by Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 in wastewater;

(6) FIG. 6 is a graph of the degradation rate of TDCPP by Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 in soil.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

(7) The invention will now be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific examples, which are not intended to limit the invention in any way. Unless otherwise indicated, the reagents, methods, and equipment used herein are those conventional in the art.

(8) Unless otherwise noted, the reagents and materials used in the following examples are commercially available.

(9) The inorganic salt medium formula used in the following examples was: phosphate buffer solution: K.sub.2HPO.sub.4.Math.H.sub.2O 1.75 g/L, NaHPO.sub.4.Math.12H.sub.2O 3.40 g/L, KH.sub.2HPO.sub.4 1.5 g/L; MgSO.sub.4 solution: MgSO.sub.4 1.5 g/L; CaCl.sub.2 solution: 1.4 g/L; FeCl.sub.3 solution: FeCl.sub.3.Math.6H.sub.2O 0.25 g/L, MnSO.sub.4.Math.H.sub.2O 0.9 mg/L; microelement solution: ZnSO.sub.4.Math.H.sub.2O 0.8 mg/L, (NH4).sub.6Mo.sub.7O.sub.24.Math.4H.sub.2O 0.7 mg/L.

(10) The solid medium formula was beef extract 3.0 g/L, peptone 10.0 g/L, NaCl 5.0 g/L.

Example 1 Isolation of Strains

(11) The sample was sludge from a sewage treatment plant in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Organophosphorus flame retardant (TDCPP) was used as a carbon source and energy source. Organophosphorus flame retardant was added into an inorganic salt medium for screening, with the acclimation substrate concentration of 1 mg/L, 5 mg/L, 10 mg/L, 15 mg/L and 20 mg/L. First, 10 mL sludge was taken and added into an inorganic salt medium containing 1 mg/L organophosphorus flame retardant. After acclimation at 37 C. for 5 days, the bacteria were transferred into the next concentration at 10% inoculum size and then acclimated, and then the concentration was gradually increased to acclimate.

(12) At the end of acclimation, the final concentration of bacterial liquid was diluted by 10-1 to 10.sup.7 times, and seven dilutions of 10.sup.1, 10.sup.2, 10.sup.3, 10-4, 10.sup.1, 10.sup.6, and 10.sup.7 were selected respectively, 0.2 mL of each dilution was taken and evenly spread in the solid medium with organophosphorus flame retardant as a carbon source for cultivation, and a single colony with good growth status was selected for enrichment culture, which was used for subsequent strain identification.

Example 2 Identification of Strains

(13) The colony after enrichment culture in Example 1 was taken for strain identification, and the morphological characteristics of the colony after culture in a solid medium for 24 h were observed under an electron microscope; the colony morphology was shown in FIG. 1, which was round, off-white and translucent, with a colony diameter of 0.5-1.5 mm; the morphology of the bacteria was rod-shaped, as shown in FIG. 2, the size of the bacteria was 0.8-1.00.2-0.3 m, without flagella.

(14) Then the physiological and biochemical characteristics are identified, and the identification process is referred to Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8.sup.th Edition. The identification results were as shown in Table 1 below:

(15) TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Physiological and biochemical characteristics of bacteria Item Test results Gram stain Anaerobic growth + Oxidase + Nitrate reduction Simon's citrate utilization Hydrolyzed gelatin (4 C. liquid) Glucose OF utilization + Arabinose utilization Mannitol utilization Xylose utilization

(16) Note: The reaction status is divided into positive and negative, with the positive shape coded as + and the negative shape coded as .

(17) Then the molecular biology identification was carried out and total bacterial DNA was extracted using a DNA extraction kit. Bacterial 16S rDNA general primers were used:

(18) TABLE-US-00002 Forwardprimer: (SEQIDNO:1) 7F(5-CAGAGTTTGATCCTGGCT-3) Reverseprimer: (SEQIDNO:2) 1540R(5-AGGAGGTGATCCAGCCGCA-3)

(19) The 16S rDNA gene was amplified, and the 16S rRNA gene sequence with a length of around 1,500 bp (SEQ ID NO: 3) was compared with the registered gene sequence in Genbank. The homology comparison results were shown in FIG. 3. The comparative analysis found that the strain isolated in the present invention was most similar to Zavarzinia compransoris strain Z-1155, with a similarity of 99.85%.

(20) Based on the above morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics and 16S rRNA gene sequence identification results, the strain isolated in the present invention was assigned to Zavarzinia compransoris, named Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2, and deposited in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) on Jun. 10, 2022, with the accession number of CCTCC NO: M 2022855, deposited at No. 299, Bayi Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei.

Example 3 Degradation of Organophosphorus Flame Retardants by Strains

(21) The example is a study of the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 identified in the previous example on the organophosphorus flame retardant tris (1,3-dichloropropyl) phosphate (TDCPP). First, an inorganic salt medium was prepared in a conical flask by adding 100 mL of formula components of the inorganic salt medium and autoclaved at 121 C. for 30 min for later use. After enrichment and enrichment cultivation of GDUTXIONG2 strain in a solid medium for 18 h, bacteria were collected by centrifugation and washed three times with a phosphate buffer, then suspended in the above conical flask containing 100 mL of the inorganic salt medium at 10% inoculum size, and a certain amount of TDCPP solution was added to make the concentration to be 1 mg/L, 5 mg/L, 10 mg/L and 15 mg/L, respectively, and cultivated at temperature of 37 C., vibration frequency of 200 r/min for performing degradation experiment. Samples were taken at 96 h to determine the concentration of TDCPP in the solution, and the concentration of TDCPP during degradation was determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS, Agilent, USA, 7890A-5975C).

(22) The detection conditions of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were: 1 L of the sample was passed into a chromatography column DB-5MS (30 m0.25 mm0.25 m, J & W Scientific, Folsom, CA, USA) in splitless mode. The initial temperature of the heating program was 60 C. to retain 1 min, 15 C./min to 150 C., then 10 C./min to 300 C. maintaining 5 min. The ion source temperature of the mass detector was 230 C. and the electron energy was 70 eV. In full scan mode, the m/z scan range is 30-1100 amu.

(23) The degradation results of GDUTXIONG2 strain to different initial concentrations of TDCPP are shown in FIG. 4 below. The results show that the degradation capacity of GDUTXIONG2 strain to TDCPP can reach more than 99.9% at 96 h; it has a good degradation effect on organophosphorus flame retardants and can be applied to the remediation of organophosphorus flame retardant contamination and the purification treatment of organophosphorus flame retardants released from electronic waste in water, sediment, and soil.

Example 4 Degradation of Organophosphorus Flame Retardant in Wastewater

(24) The example is a study of the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 identified in the previous example on the organophosphorus flame retardant tris (1,3-dichloropropyl) phosphate (TDCPP). After enrichment and enrichment cultivation of GDUTXIONG2 strain in a solid medium for 18 h, the bacteria were collected by centrifugation and washed with phosphate buffer three times, then suspended in an erlenmeyer flask containing 100 mL of sterilized wastewater containing TDCPP at 10% inoculum size, the TDCPP concentration of the wastewater was determined to be 100 mg/L and cultivated at a temperature of 37 C. and a vibration frequency of 200 r/min. Samples were taken to determine the TDCPP concentration in the solution at 12, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h, and the TDCPP concentration was determined using a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS, Agilent, USA, 7890A-5975C).

(25) The detection conditions of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were: 1 L of the sample was passed into a chromatography column DB-5MS (30 m0.25 mm0.25 m, J & W Scientific, Folsom, CA, USA) in splitless mode. The initial temperature of the heating program was 60 C. to retain 1 min, 15 C./min to 150 C., then 10 C./min to 300 C. maintaining 5 min. The ion source temperature of the mass detector was 230 C. and the electron energy was 70 eV. In full scan mode, the m/z scan range is 30-1100 amu.

(26) The degradation results of GDUTXIONG2 strain to TDCPP in wastewater are shown in FIG. 5. The results of the example show that Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 can effectively degrade organophosphorus flame retardants in wastewater, indicating that Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 can be used in the treatment of TDCPP contamination in wastewater.

Example 5 Degradation of Organophosphorus Flame Retardants in Soil

(27) The example is a study of the Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 identified in the previous example on the organophosphorus flame retardant tris (1,3-dichloropropyl) phosphate (TDCPP). After enrichment and enrichment cultivation of GDUTXIONG2 strain in solid medium for 18 h, the bacteria were collected by centrifugation and washed with phosphate buffer three times, then inoculated into 100 g of sterilized soil at 10% inoculum size and added with 100 mg of TDCPP, and cultivated at a temperature of 37 C. Samples were taken to determine the TDCPP concentration in the soil at 12, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h, and the TDCPP concentration was determined using a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS, Agilent, USA, 7890A-5975C).

(28) The detection conditions of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were: 1 L of the sample was passed into a chromatography column DB-5MS (30 m0.25 mm0.25 m, J & W Scientific, Folsom, CA, USA) in splitless mode. The initial temperature of the heating program was 60 C. to retain 1 min, 15 C./min to 150 C., then 10 C./min to 300 C. maintaining 5 min. The ion source temperature of the mass detector was 230 C. and the electron energy was 70 eV. In full scan mode, the m/z scan range is 30-1100 amu.

(29) The degradation results of GDUTXIONG2 strain to TDCPP in soil are shown in FIG. 6. The results of the example show that Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 can effectively degrade organophosphorus flame retardants in soil, indicating that Zavarzinia compransoris GDUTXIONG2 can be used for the treatment of TDCPP contamination in soil.

(30) The embodiments described above are preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the above embodiments, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications that may be made without departing from the spirit and principles of the present invention shall be equivalent replacement and shall be included in the protection scope of the present invention.