Bramucci Michael, Nagarajan Vasantha
Central Research and Development, DuPont Company, PO Box 80328, Wilmington, DE 19880-0328, USA.
Curr Opin Microbiol. 2006 Jun;9(3):275-8. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2006.04.005. Epub 2006 May 3.
Wastewater bioreactors have been used to treat domestic and industrial waste for nearly a century. Development of molecular tools such as PCR and DNA microarrays have enabled identification and characterization of some of the microbes in these bioreactors; however, molecular characterization of the microbes is still in its infancy, and only a few of the molecular tools have been applied to improving performance of wastewater bioreactors at the commercial level. Several new plasmids and enzymes have been isolated from wastewater bioreactors. There is enormous opportunity to use the microbes from wastewater for industrial bioprocesses.
废水生物反应器已用于处理生活和工业废物近一个世纪。诸如聚合酶链反应（PCR）和DNA微阵列等分子工具的发展，使得人们能够识别和表征这些生物反应器中的一些微生物；然而，微生物的分子表征仍处于起步阶段，只有少数分子工具已应用于商业层面以提高废水生物反应器的性能。几种新的质粒和酶已从废水生物反应器中分离出来。利用废水中的微生物进行工业生物过程存在巨大的机会。
