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Investigating the methane producing pathway in lab-scale biogas reactors subjected to sequential increase of ammonium and daily acetate-pulsing

Syntrophic acetate oxidizing bacteria convert acetate into hydrogen and carbon dioxide and through the mutualistic syntrophic partnership with methanogens the products are further converted to methane in biogas processes operating at high ammonia concentrations. There is very little known about SAOBs, only five have been characterized and had their genome analyzed. The aim of this project was to gain further knowledge about the methane producing pathway of SAOBs with a proteomic approach. Proteins were extracted from biogas sludge with a phenol-based approach and trypsin digestion and peptide recovery were performed using the Suspension Trapping method. Measurement of the peptide content was made with LC-MS/MS. The peptide profiles obtained were screened for the proteins expressed of the mesophilic SAOB Syntrophaceticus schinkii. The data supports earlier suggestions that it utilizes the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway for hydrogen production. Furthermore, the peptide profile revealed that enzymes for the glycine reductase complex and the glycine cleavage system were expressed during high ammonia concentration, indicating a potential role of these enzymes in the methane producing pathway. However, due to partial failure of the sample preparation for mass spectrometry measurements no quantification conclusions could be made. A discussion on how to further improve sample preparation methods as well as how to access the proteome to a large extent is presented.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-167519
Date January 2020
CreatorsMoberg, Sofia
PublisherLinköpings universitet, Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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