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  • Filippo Dell'Anno
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
  • Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl
    University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  • Marla Trindade
    University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  • Emanuela Buschi
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
  • Antonio Cannavacciulo
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
  • Milva Pepi
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
  • Clementia Sansone
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
  • Christophe Brunet
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
  • Adrianna Ianora
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
  • Donatella de Pascale
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
  • Peter Golyshin
  • Antonio Dell'Anno
    Università Politecnica delle Marche
  • Eugene Rastelli
    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
Petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals are some of the most widespread contaminants affecting marine ecosystems, urgently needing effective and sustainable remediation solutions. Microbial-based bioremediation is gaining increasing interest as an effective, economically and environmentally sustainable strategy. Here, we hypothesized that the heavily polluted coastal area facing the Sarno River mouth, which discharges >3 tons of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and ∼15 tons of heavy metals (HMs) into the sea annually, hosts unique microbiomes including marine bacteria useful for PAHs and HMs bioremediation. We thus enriched the microbiome of marine sediments, contextually selecting for HM-resistant bacteria. The enriched mixed bacterial culture was subjected to whole-DNA sequencing, metagenome-assembled-genomes (MAGs) annotation, and further sub-culturing to obtain the major bacterial species as pure strains. We obtained two novel isolates corresponding to the two most abundant MAGs (Alcanivorax xenomutans strain-SRM1 and Halomonas alkaliantarctica strain-SRM2), and tested their ability to degrade PAHs and remove HMs. Both strains exhibited high PAHs degradation (60–100%) and HMs removal (21–100%) yield, and we described in detail >60 genes in their MAGs to unveil the possible genetic basis for such abilities. Most promising yields (∼100%) were obtained towards naphthalene, pyrene and lead. We propose these novel bacterial strains and related genetic repertoire to be further exploited for effective bioremediation of marine environments contaminated with both PAHs and HMs.
Original languageEnglish
Article number 120772
JournalEnvironmental Pollution
Volume317
Early online date28 Nov 2022
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Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2023

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