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Toxicity assessment of 255 chemicals to pure cultured nitrifying bacteria using biosensor.

The bioassay has been attracting attention as a method of toxicity assessments of micropollutants in the environment. In this study, we report the characteristics (selectivity and sensitivity) of the nitrifying bacteria biosensor for 255 kinds of chemicals as a model of chemical contaminant in the environment and the results of evaluation of mixed samples of several substances. In the nitrifying bacteria respiration inhibition test using the biosensor, 56 chemicals were detected. It was found that this biosensor is especially sensitive to seven chemicals that have a thiocarbonyl functional group (>C=S), such as a thioamide group of thiocarbamate group. These chemicals are considered to specifically inhibit AMO by chelation of copper. The samples consisted of a mixture of seven types of anilines that inhibit respiration in the bacteria, a mixture of five types of chlorophenols, and a mixture of eight types of substances that contain thiocarbonyl groups were examined. All of the mixed samples inhibited the respiration of the nitrifying bacteria more than 10% by the inhibition rate, and observed a synergistic effects of the substances in the samples.[1]

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  1. Toxicity assessment of 255 chemicals to pure cultured nitrifying bacteria using biosensor. Tanaka, Y., Taguchi, K., Utsumi, H. Water Sci. Technol. (2002) [Pubmed]
 
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