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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 1999, p. 4008-4013, Vol. 65, No. 9
Laboratoire de Physiologie et Ecologie
Microbiennes, Section Interfacultaire d'Agronomie,
Université Libre de Bruxelles c/o Institut Pasteur, B-1180,
Brussels, Belgium
Received 22 March 1999/Accepted 24 June 1999
In vitro ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are capable of oxidizing
hydrocarbons incompletely. This transformation is accompanied by
competitive inhibition of ammonia monooxygenase, the first key enzyme
in nitrification. The effect of hydrocarbon pollution on soil
nitrification was examined in situ. In a microcosm study, adding diesel
fuel hydrocarbon to an uncontaminated soil (agricultural unfertilized
soil) treated with ammonium sulfate dramatically reduced the amount of
KCl-extractable nitrate but stimulated ammonium consumption. In a soil
with long history of pollution that was treated with ammonium sulfate,
90% of the ammonium was transformed into nitrate after 3 weeks of
incubation. Nitrate production was twofold higher in the contaminated
soil than in the agricultural soil to which hydrocarbon was not added.
To assess if ammonia-oxidizing bacteria acquired resistance to
inhibition by hydrocarbon, the contaminated soil was reexposed to
diesel fuel. Ammonium consumption was not affected, but nitrate
production was 30% lower than nitrate production in the absence of
hydrocarbon. The apparent reduction in nitrification resulted from
immobilization of ammonium by hydrocarbon-stimulated microbial
activity. These results indicated that the hydrocarbon inhibited
nitrification in the noncontaminated soil (agricultural soil) and that
ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the polluted soil acquired resistance to
inhibition by the hydrocarbon, possibly by increasing the affinity of
nitrifying bacteria for ammonium in the soil.
Bioremediation is the most recent
technology used for cleaning areas contaminated with hydrocarbon
derivatives. The approach that has been exploited most consists of
stimulation of the soil endogenous microflora by adding an electron
acceptor and/or nutriments, in particular nitrogen in the form of
ammonium salts (2, 43, 44). This nitrogen source is
exploited mainly by microbial biomass for growth and production of
degradative enzymes. Some of the ammonium may be transformed into
nitrite and nitrate by the nitrification pathway (26). A
number of in vitro studies have shown that pure cultures of
Nitrosomonas europaea oxidize a wide variety of hydrocarbon substrates through the action of ammonia monooxygenase, the first key
enzyme in the autotrophic nitrification process. In contrat, in situ
studies of the effects of hydrocarbon soil pollution on nitrification
apparently have not been performed previously. The common hydrocarbon
substrates include alkanes, alkenes, and aromatic and chlorinated
aliphatic compounds (13, 15, 27, 40). Transformation of
hydrocarbons via the ammonia monooxygenase pathway may be considered
competitive cooxidation which reduces the rate and extent of ammonia
oxidation. The oxidation products obtained from alternative hydrocarbon
substrates are not assimilated by N. europaea and accumulate
in the culture medium. It is thought that in this case the nitrifying
bacteria present in a polluted environment initiate a syntrophic
pathway that provides intermediates for heterotrophic bacteria. Thus,
nitrifying bacteria appear to be excellent candidates for hydrocarbon
remediation because it may be possible to enhance the biodegradative
capacity of these ubiquitous soil bacteria by adding ammonia and oxygen
in order to support hydrocarbon cometabolism.
However, if bacteria are to be used effectively in bioremediation
schemes, it is important to obtain information concerning the
nitrification process that occurs in the presence of hydrocarbon in a
natural soil medium; studies performed with pure cultures ignore
interactions of bacteria and environmental components and bacterial
diversity (36, 37).
The objective of the present study was to determine the effect of
adding a hydrocarbon fuel on nitrification and nitrifying bacteria in
an uncontaminated agricultural soil and in a soil with a long history
of pollution. We present evidence that nitrifying bacteria in polluted
soil were characterized by a lower affinity for hydrocarbons and that
the apparent inhibition of nitrification observed in the presence of
hydrocarbons resulted not from a competitive effect but from
immobilization of nitrogen in the microbial biomass.
Soil samples.
Two loamy soils were used in this study. A
soil that was contaminated with diesel fuel was obtained from an
abandoned area of a petroleum refinery. This soil was characterized by
absence of vegetation and a management program. The operation at the
refinery ceased 12 years ago. The other soil was obtained from a
unfertilized agricultural plot that had been planted with ryegrass for
at least 3 years. All of the inorganic nitrogen in this soil was
derived from mineralization of organic nitrogen. Soil samples were
collected aseptically from the upper 20 cm and were stored at 4°C.
Before use, they were sieved (mesh size, 2 mm) and kept at room
temperature for 24 h. Characteristics of the soils are summarized
in Table 1.
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Nitrification and Autotrophic Nitrifying Bacteria
in a Hydrocarbon-Polluted Soil
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TABLE 1.
Properties of the soils used in this investigation
Incubation experiment. Laboratory microcosms were used for the incubation experiment. Each sample was separated into 500-g (dry weight) portions, and each portion was transferred to a sterile 2,000-ml Mason jar capped with a lid fitted with a rubber septum. Triplicate jars were prepared for each treatment. The microcosms were incubated for 4 weeks at 28°C in the dark and were aerated weekly to maintain aerobic conditions. The mineral N content was determined each week. Total mineralized carbon contents were determined by using sterile 500-ml Mason jars. Triplicate jars (50 g [dry weight] of soil/jar) were used for each soil treatment. Total mineralized carbon contents were measured weekly by titrating the CO2 trapped during incubation in NaOH (25). All water-soluble substrates were dissolved in a volume of water sufficient to adjust the water content of the soil to 20% on the basis of wet weight. Substrates were neutralized with NaOH, if necessary, before they were added. All substrates were added to samples by spraying them with a 2-ml syringe. Ammonium was added in the form of (NH4)2SO4, and 150 µg of P/g (dry weight) of soil was added as KH2PO4 to prevent any limitation of activity by nutriment imbalance. Diesel fuel (density at 15°C, 0.83 kg/liter) was purchased from Petro-FINA Belgium. Nitrapyrin (90% pure) was obtained from Sigma Chemical, was dissolved in 100 mM dimethyl sulfoxide at a concentration of 0.5% (wt/wt), and was added at a concentration of 10 µg/g of soil. To obtain maximal inhibition of nitrification, the nitrapyrin solution was mixed with the ammonium salt solution before it was added to the soil.
Analytical procedures. Exchangeable ammonium, nitrite, and nitrate contents were determined after soil samples were extracted with 1 M KCl (1:5, wt/vol) for 2 h by using a Tecator Aquatec model 5400 autoanalyzer with a detection level of 0.1 ppm of N for all three compounds. Mineral nitrogen was quantified colorimetrically by the indophenol (ammonium) and cadmium reduction (nitrate) methods (16).
Petroleum hydrocarbon in the polluted soil was extracted with carbon tetrachloride and was analyzed quantitatively by infrared spectrophotometry and qualitatively with a gas chromatograph (GC) equipped with a flame ionization detector (FID) (29).Enumeration of nitrifying bacteria.
Ammonia- and
nitrite-oxidizing bacteria were enumerated by a most-probable-number
(MPN) procedure (30). Suspensions of 5.0 g of moist
soil and 45 ml of sterile phosphate buffer containing 139 mg of
K2HPO4 per liter and 27 mg of
KH2PO4 per liter (pH 7.0) were shaken at 100 rpm for 2 h. Subsamples of the suspensions were diluted in sterile
microtiter plates containing the appropriate medium for the ammonium-
and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (42). Twelve replicates were
made per dilution. Samples were incubated for a maximum of 3 months at
28°C in the dark. The number of nitrifying bacteria was determined
with Cochran's tables (10) after detection of
NO2
with the Griess reagent (33).
DNA extraction. DNA was extracted from 0.5-g portions of soil in 2-ml microcentrifuge tubes containing 0.5 ml of 100 mM phosphate buffer (pH 8), 0.5 ml of a 10% sodium dodecyl sulfate solution (100 mM NaCl, 500 mM Tris [pH 8], 10% sodium dodecyl sulfate), and 2.5 g of 0.1-mm-diameter zirconia beads. The tubes were shaken at 2,000 rpm for 20 min in a bead mill homogenizer. The supernatant was recovered by centrifugation for 5 min at 12,000 × g and was extracted with a phenol-chloroform mixture (3). After ethanol precipitation, the DNA was resuspended in 100 µl of TE (10 mM Tris, 0.1 mM EDTA).
PCR amplification.
Crude DNA was purified by gel filtration
on Sephadex G-200 (39). PCR amplification of 16S ribosomal
DNA fragments was carried out by using the CTO primers specific for
ammonia oxidizers belonging to the 
subgroup of the class
Proteobacteria (19) and primer FGPS specific for
the genus Nitrobacter (12). Each reaction mixture
(total volume, 50 µl) was prepared as recommended by the manufacturer
by using 2.5 U of Expand High Fidelity polymerase (Boehringer
Mannheim). To minimize amplification inhibition in the PCR, 400 ng of
bovine serum albumin per µl was added to the PCR mixture
(20). The thermal cycle included an initial denaturation step consisting of 94°C for 120 s, followed by 35 cycles
consisting of denaturation at 94°C for 30 s, annealing at 57°C
with the CTO primers and at 50°C with FGPS for 30 s, and
elongation at 68°C for 60 s. The cycle was completed by a final
elongation step consisting of 72°C for 5 min.
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Hydrocarbon in the polluted soil. The concentrations of total petroleum hydrocarbons, as estimated by infrared spectroscopy analysis, ranged from 2,500 to 4,000 µg/g of soil (Table 1). The large differences in the total petroleum hydrocarbon concentrations in samples resulted from the heterogeneous distribution of petroleum hydrocarbons in the soil. A GC-FID analysis revealed that polyaromatic hydrocarbons and aliphatic hydrocarbons (C11 to C19) were the dominant pollutants (data not shown).
Several reports have documented that mineralization (conversion to CO2) of the hydrocarbons in polluted soils is enhanced by adding mineral N (2, 43, 44). With our sample of polluted soil this effect was observed in the presence of an extra dose of diesel fuel but not in the initial soil sample (Fig. 1). The lack of enhancement of mineralization of the indigenous hydrocarbons could have been due to restricted access of microorganisms to hydrocarbons that were adsorbed or trapped in microaggregates and/or were not easy to mineralize (18).
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Nitrogen in polluted soil.
The levels of
NH4+ N and NO3 N
extracted with KCl were below the limit of detection (0.5 µg/g) in
the polluted soil (Table 1). This situation did not evolve during the
4-week incubation period (data not shown). The total-N content of this
soil was also very low (0.05%) (Table 1). The low N content was
probably due to the absence of any N management of the abandoned area
which was the source of the soil.
N/g (dry weight) of
soil after 4 weeks of incubation. However, the concentration of
ammonium did not change. This showed that nitrification in this soil
depended on mineralization of organic nitrogen. Generally, the
populations and in situ activities of nitrifiers may be limited by the
rate of production of ammonium during mineralization of organic
nitrogen. This can easily be demonstrated in many soils by adding
ammonium and observing stimulation of growth of the nitrifier
population (5). In contrast, the contaminated soil was
characterized by low total-N contents and no accumulation of any form
of inorganic nitrogen. This probably resulted from the absence of
organic nitrogen available for mineralization.
Nitrifiers in polluted soil.
Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria
belonging to the subgroup of the Proteobacteria and
nitrite-oxidizing bacteria belonging to the genus
Nitrobacter are the principal autotrophic nitrifiers that have been found in soils (7, 36). Use of PCR amplification primers CTO and FGPS, which are specific for the 16S rRNA genes of
ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (19) and nitrite-oxidizing
bacteria (12), respectively, with DNA extracted from the
polluted and agricultural soils produced the expected amplification
products (465-bp product for ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and 397-bp
product for nitrite-oxidizing bacteria) (Fig.
2, lanes 1 and 3). A PCR analysis of
serial dilutions of DNA extracted from both soils revealed that the
lower detection limit for ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and
nitrite-oxidizing bacteria was approximately 10 times higher in the
polluted soil than in the agricultural soil (Fig. 2). This result
supports the finding that there was a clear quantitative distinction
between the MPN values for nitrifying bacteria in polluted and
agricultural soils (Fig. 3). The lower
value obtained by the MPN procedure showed that the PCR product
obtained with DNA extracted from polluted soil was derived from living
nitrifiers and not from dead cells or DNA adsorbed to soil particles
(1, 21). Moreover, it demonstrated that this group of
bacteria persisted in hydrocarbon-polluted soil for several years in
the absence of an energy supply (ammonium and nitrite) and in the
presence of the polluting hydrocarbons.
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Effect of ammonium addition.
Addition of 300 µg of
NH4+ N/g (dry weight) of soil to the polluted
soil was followed by a large and rapid increase in the mineral nitrate
content of the soil, which was about 240 µg of NO3 N/g (dry weight) of soil after 3 weeks of
incubation (Fig. 4A). The concomitant
decrease in the ammonium concentration attained 95% of the initial
value. In contrast, the rate of nitrification of 300 µg of
NH4+ N/g (dry weight) of soil added to an
agricultural soil was apparently slower (Fig.
5). Previous laboratory studies have
shown that the rate of nitrification in agricultural soils after
ammonium sulfate is added depends on the soil properties and that the
inhibitory effect of ammonium on nitrification occurs at concentrations
of >300 µg of N/g (23, 24, 38). The dominant factors that
control the rates of nitrification in many soils are (i) the supply of NH4+ substrate, (ii) the acidity, (iii) the
water content, and (iv) the temperature (8, 28). These
factors were equivalent or optimal for nitrification in the two soils
used in this investigation. This suggests that the observed difference
in the rates of nitrification for the two soils resulted from a
qualitative difference in the populations of nitrifying bacteria.
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Effect of a nitrification inhibitor. Previous laboratory studies showed that nitrapyrin was an effective nitrification inhibitor and that the degrees of inhibition were different in different soils (4, 9) and varied with the genus and strain of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (6). In the agricultural soil, production of nitrate and disappearance of ammonium were not observed even after 50 days of incubation (Fig. 6) in the presence of the nitrification inhibitor nitrapyrin (10 µg/g [dry weight]) (9). In contrast, in the polluted soil, nitrification and ammonium consumption started after a lag period of about 3 weeks. The nitrapyrin was completely consumed after 3 weeks in the polluted soil, as shown by the GC-FID analysis (data not shown). Degradation of nitrapyrin and degradation of the intermediates (also inhibitors of nitrification [4]) in polluted soil could have been due to the action of the nitrifying bacteria, as observed in vitro (41). The rapid degradation of nitrapyrin in the polluted soil but not in the agricultural soil could have been due to the high specific activity of nitrifying bacteria in the polluted soil.
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Effect of ammonium and diesel fuel. In order to compare the effects of a hydrocarbon on nitrification in the contaminated and uncontaminated soils, both soils were amended with 4,000 µg of diesel fuel per g and 300 µg of NH4+ N/g (dry weight) of soil. This was done because the hydrocarbons present in the contaminated soil were apparently not accessible to microorganisms and had no effect on nitrification.
Addition of a hydrocarbon to the agricultural soil resulted in a lower increase in nitrate production compared to the same soil when diesel fuel was not added; the evolution of ammonium was apparently not affected by the diesel fuel addition (Fig. 5). The decrease in the ammonium concentration in the presence of the hydrocarbon resulted in large part from immobilization by incorporation into organic components (i.e., microbially synthesized amino acids and proteins) (14). Consequently, nitrification was directly affected by the hydrocarbon addition, so that decreases in denitrification were not expected during this incubation period. When the previously polluted soil was supplemented with an extra dose of diesel fuel (Fig. 4B), the ammonium concentration was apparently not affected. Nevertheless, the plateau concentration of nitrate was 30% lower than the concentration observed in the absence of extra added hydrocarbon (Fig. 4A). The total amount of ammonium consumed after 4 weeks suggested that the low level of nitrate production in the polluted soil and in the presence of an extra dose of diesel fuel was mainly due to immobilization of nitrogen by heterotrophic bacteria rather than to inhibition of nitrifying bacteria by hydrocarbons. Under the conditions which we used, the availability of ammonium to nitrifying bacteria appeared to be a limiting factor for nitrification. In order to check that the apparent inhibition of nitrification observed when polluted soil was exposed to diesel fuel was the result of immobilization of NH4+ N by hydrocarbon-stimulated microbial activity, we compared the effects of hydrocarbons and glucose on the amounts of ammonium and nitrate detected after incubation of soil treated with 300 µg of NH4+ N/g (Fig. 7). After incubation, the KCl-extracted ammonium values for all treatments were comparable to the value observed in the presence of ammonium alone. This result showed that hydrocarbons were as effective as glucose for inducing immobilization of NH4+ N. The conclusion that nitrogen was immobilized by heterotrophic bacteria stimulated by addition of a carbon source was confirmed by the amounts of DNA extracted from the polluted soil amended with both ammonium and diesel fuel, which were higher than the amounts extracted from the polluted soil amended with diesel fuel alone or with ammonium alone (Fig. 8). In fact, several studies have shown that changes in the DNA contents of environmental samples corresponded to changes in the population densities determined by using direct count epifluorescence microscopy (22, 35).
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Conclusions. Addition of hydrocarbon to an uncontaminated soil stimulated immobilization of nitrogen and reduced nitrification. In the absence of a bioremediation program (nutriment addition), the N immobilized in situ was derived from mineralization of the available organic nitrogen. In the case of long-term pollution and in the absence of a bioremediation program, the soil was excessively poor in nitrogen. Perhaps the same situation occurred in the contaminated soil used in this study, which had a long history of pollution, because initially this soil had a low total-N content and a small population of nitrifying bacteria. Apparently, nitrifying bacteria persisted in contaminated soil containing a limited amount of ammonium for several years. These conditions reduced the number of nitrifying bacteria but probably selected an ammonia-oxidizing community with a higher ammonium affinity and a higher activity than the community in the agricultural soil. The ammonia-oxidizing bacterial community in contaminated soil was not directly affected by a hydrocarbon addition, possibly because of its high affinity for ammonium.
A contaminated soil is a nitrogen-limited environment, and the adaptations which we observed may be very important for nitrifier survival in a ammonium-limited soil. Whether these adaptations are due to physiological plasticity or to the presence of strains specialized for living in an ammonium-limited and hydrocarbon-polluted soil will be examined by using the new molecular techniques for studying the diversity of these organisms (19).| |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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J.D. thanks the David & Alice Van Buuren Foundation and M.J.P. thanks the Federal Ministry of Agriculture of Belgium for financial support.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Physiologie et Ecologie Microbiennes, Section Interfacultaire d'Agronomie, Université Libre de Bruxelles c/o Institute Pasteur, Rue Engeland 642, B-1180, Brussels, Belgium. Phone: 32 2 373 33 03. Fax: 32 2 3733309. E-mail: upemulb{at}resulb.ulb.ac.be.
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), 4,000 µg
of diesel fuel/g (dry weight) of soil (
), or 300 µg of
NH4+ N/g (dry weight) of soil plus 4,000 µg
of diesel fuel/g (dry weight) of soil (
) and unamended polluted soil
(
). Data are averages based on three replicates; the error bars are
smaller than the symbols.
) during incubation of polluted soil amended
with 300 µg of NH4+ N/g (dry weight) of soil
(A) or 4,000 µg of diesel fuel/g (dry weight) of soil plus 300 µg
of NH4+ N/g (dry weight) of soil (B). dw, dry
weight.
and
