化学
微观世界
氮气循环
环境化学
反硝化
硝酸还原酶
厌氧氨氧化菌
微生物
氮气
反硝化细菌
银纳米粒子
纳米颗粒
核化学
细菌
纳米技术
生物
材料科学
有机化学
遗传学
作者
Keqin Jiao,Biao Yang,Hui Wang,Wenxue Xu,Chuanfeng Zhang,Yongchao Gao,Wen Sun,Li Feng,Dandan Ji
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153358
摘要
The effects of emerging contaminants micro/nanoplastics (MPs/NPs) and silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) on health have attracted universal concern throughout the world. However, it is unclear on the combined effects of MPs/NPs and Ag NPs on the biogeochemistry cycle such as nitrogen transformation and functional microorganism in the soil. In the present study, we conducted a 45-day soil microcosm experiment with polystyrene (PS) MPs/NPs and Ag NPs to investigate their combined impact on nitrogen cycling and the bacterial community. The results showed that MPs or NPs exerted limited effects on nitrogen transformation in the soil. The combined effects of PS MPs/NPs and Ag NPs were mainly caused by the presence of Ag NPs. However, PS NPs alleviated the inhibition of anammox and denitrification induced by Ag NPs via upregulating anammox-related genes and elevating nitrate and nitrite reductase activities. PS MPs + Ag NPs treatment significantly reduced bacterial diversity. PS MPs/NPs + Ag NPs increased the relative abundances of denitrifying Cupriavidus by 0.32% and 0.06% but decreased nitrogen-fixing functional microorganisms of Microvirga (by 2.05% and 2.24%), Bacillus (by 0.16% and 0.22%), and Herbaspirillum (by 0.14% and 0.07%) at the genus level compared with Ag NPs alone. The significant downregulation of nitrogen-fixing genes (K02586, K02588, and K02591) was observed in PS MPs/NPs + Ag NPs treatment compared to Ag NPs in the nitrogen metabolism pathway. Moreover, g-Lysobacter and g-Aquimonas were identified as biomarkers in PS MPs + Ag NPs and PS NPs + Ag NPs by LEfSe analysis. Our study sheds the light that changes of functional microorganism abundances contributed to the alteration of nitrogen transformation. Taking the particle size of plastics into account will be helpful to accurately assess the combined ecological risks of plastics and nanomaterial contaminants.
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