Abstract
Sulfonamides (SAs) are widespread in soils, and their dissipation behavior is important for their fate, risk assessment, and pollution control. In this work, we investigated the dissipation behavior of different SAs in a soil under aerobic condition, focusing on revealing the relationship between overall dissipation (without sterilization and in dark) and individual abiotic (sorption, hydrolysis)/biotic (with sterilization and in dark) factors and taxonomy/function of microbiomes. The results showed that dissipation of all SAs in the soil followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic model with dissipation time at 50% removal (DT50) of 2.16-15.27 days. Based on, experimentally, abiotic/biotic processes and, theoretically, partial least-squares modeling, a relationship between overall dissipation and individual abiotic/biotic factors was developed with microbial degradation as the dominant contributor. Metagenomic analysis showed that taxonomic genera like Bradyrhizobium/Sphingomonas/Methyloferula and functions like CAZy family GT51/GH23/GT2, eggNOG category S, KEGG pathway ko02024/ko02010, and KEGG ortholog K01999/K03088 are putatively involved in SA microbial degradation in soil. Spearman correlation suggests abundant genera being multifunctional. This study provides some new insights into SA dissipation and can be applied to other antibiotics/soils in the future.
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