Abstract
ABSTRACTNAP (Naphthalene) and ANT (anthracene) usually co-exist in environment and possessed interactional effects on their biodegradation in environment. Presently, a strain of Acinetobacter johnsonii was employed to degrade NAP and ANT in single- and dual-substrate systems. NAP was utilized as prefer substrate by cells to accelerate ANT biodegradation. As much as 200 mg L−1 ANT could be entirely degraded with 1,500 mg L−1 NAP, which was beyond bacterial potential in single substrate system. Especially, the shortest biodegradation period (103 h) for ANT was observed with the presence of 50 mg L−1 NAP. By contrast, ANT showed strong inhibition on NAP degradation, while the peak biodegradation of 1,950 mg L−1 NAP with 50 mg L−1 ANT could still proceed. By introducing an inhibition constant parameter to fit the inhibition on cells, modeling indicated the substrate inhibition for NAP and ANT over the concentrations of 174 and 49 mg L−1, respectively. Furthermore, enzyme assay revealed the pathway of meta fission in NAP biodegradation due to the appearance of catechol 2,3-dioxygenase activity, and low-level lipase excretion was also found in both NAP and ANT biodegradation, but hardly affect NAP and ANT biodegradation in the present study. To research the interplay of NAP and ANT is conducive to targeted decontamination.
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