Potential for phenol biodegradation in cloud waters

Lallement, Audrey; Besaury, Ludovic; Tixier, Elise; Sancelme, Martine; Amato, Pierre; Vinatier, Virginie; Canet, Isabelle; Polyakova, Olga V.; Artaev, Viatcheslay B.; Lebedev, Albert T.; Deguillaume, Laurent; Mailhot, Gilles; Delort, Anne-Marie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5733-2018

Articles | Volume 15, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5733-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5733-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 18

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28 Sep 2018

Research article | Highlight paper |

| 28 Sep 2018

Potential for phenol biodegradation in cloud waters

Audrey Lallement, Ludovic Besaury, Elise Tixier, Martine Sancelme, Pierre Amato, Virginie Vinatier, Isabelle Canet, Olga V. Polyakova, Viatcheslay B. Artaev, Albert T. Lebedev, Laurent Deguillaume, Gilles Mailhot, and Anne-Marie Delort

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RC1: 'Bacterial degradation of phenol in cloud water', ODILE BERGE, 09 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'answer to O. BERGE comments', Anne-Marie DELORT, 27 Jul 2018
RC2: 'Review note - Potential for phenol biodegradation in cloud waters’ (bg-2018-251)', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Answer to reviewer 2 bg-2018-251', Anne-Marie DELORT, 27 Jul 2018

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (02 Aug 2018) by Tina Treude

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (24 Aug 2018) by Tina Treude

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The main objective of this work was to evaluate the potential degradation of phenol, a highly toxic pollutant, by cloud microorganisms. Phenol concentrations measured on five cloud samples collected at the PUY station in France were from 0.15 to 0.74 µg L⁻¹. Metatranscriptomic analysis suggested that phenol could be biodegraded directly in clouds, likely by Gammaproteobacteria. A large screening showed that 93 % of 145 bacterial strains isolated from clouds were able to degrade phenol.