Abstract
This study investigated the interaction between function microbiota succession and three electron acceptors in anaerobic sulfamethoxazole (SMX) degradation. Over 20%–60% SMX was degraded biologically after antibiotics acclimation under co-electron acceptors. Under sulfate- and nitrate-reducing conditions, SMX removal followed a pseudo-zero-order kinetic model and related to the sludge adsorption site. Microbiological analyses showed syntrophic community, including autotrophic denitrifiyer, nitrate reducing-sulfate oxidizier, and heterotrophic denitrifier, were putative SMX reducers. As an electron acceptor, sulfate was more beneficial in degrading SMX and maintaining the system stability and the colony structure. However, autotrophic nitrate-reducing sulfate-oxidizing bacteria has a stronger substrate competition advantage than sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), resulting in invalid SMX degradation. Thus, for the system start-up, SRB and iron/sulfur-based denitrifier should be preferentially enriched with sulfate electron acceptors to assure the removals of antibiotics. These results uncovered crucial factors that may affect the fate of SMX and associated biochemicals in anaerobic degradation processes but were previously overlooked.
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