Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 E Saint Joseph Blvd, Rapid City, SD 57701, United States.
Chemical and Biological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 E Saint Joseph Blvd, Rapid City, SD 57701, United States.
Bioresour Technol. 2018 May;255:318-330. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.01.151. Epub 2018 Feb 2.
Extremophiles, notably archaea and bacteria, offer a good platform for treating industrial waste streams that were previously perceived as hostile to the model organisms in microbial electrochemical systems (MESs). Here we present a critical overview of the fundamental and applied biology aspects of halophiles and thermophiles in MESs. The current study suggests that extremophiles enable the MES operations under a seemingly harsh conditions imposed by the physical (pressure, radiation, and temperature) and geochemical extremes (oxygen levels, pH, and salinity). We highlight a need to identify the underpinning mechanisms that define the exceptional electrocatalytic performance of extremophiles in MESs.
极端微生物，特别是古菌和细菌，为处理以前被认为对微生物电化学系统 (MESs) 中模式生物具有敌意的工业废流提供了一个很好的平台。在这里，我们对 MESs 中的嗜盐菌和嗜热菌的基础和应用生物学方面进行了批判性的综述。目前的研究表明，极端微生物使 MES 操作能够在物理（压力、辐射和温度）和地球化学极端（氧气水平、pH 值和盐度）施加的看似恶劣的条件下进行。我们强调需要确定定义极端微生物在 MESs 中异常电催化性能的基础机制。
