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Removal and Biodegradation of Phenanthrene, Fluoranthene and Pyrene by the Marine Algae Rhodomonas baltica Enriched from North Atlantic Coasts

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This study is focused on the removal, accumulation and degradation of three environmental ubiquitous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phenanthrene (PHE), fluoranthene (FLA) and pyrene (PYR), by the marine alga Rhodomonas baltica enriched from the English Channel. After separation, purification and culture in several phases, R. baltica was exposed to PAH concentrations that are frequently encountered in the field in several anthropized environments. The results showed that R. baltica can grow under PAH stress, efficiently remove up to 70% of these compounds from the medium by 216 h of culture and selectively bioaccumulate PAHs by their hydrophobicity. Between PHE, FLA and PYR, phenanthrene was the compound with higher degradation rates throughout incubation. The equilibrium partitioning theoretical approach showed that physico-chemical partitioning, rather than active bioconcentration, was the major factor governing the bioaccumulation, outlying a potential application in decontamination processes for this species.

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Our sincere gratitude to the Erasmus Mundus mobility program staff (UE). We thank the financial support obtained from the research federation FED 4129 IREPSE (Institut de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires en Sciences de l’Environnement) of Lille 1 university and Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Grant No. 1302).

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  1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Rivadavia 1917 (C1033AAJ), Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Andrés H. Arias

  2. Área de Oceanografía Química, Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía (IADO-CONICET-UNS), Florida 8000 (Camino La Carrindanga km 7,5), B8000FWB, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Andrés H. Arias

  3. Departamento de Química, Area III, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Alem 1253, CP 8000, Bahia Blanca, Argentina

    Andrés H. Arias

  4. Univ.Lille, CNRS, Univ. Littoral Cote d’Opale, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, UMR 8187 LOG, 62930, Wimereux, France

    Anissa Souissi, Olivier Glippa, Marion Roussin & Sami Souissi

  5. Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman (LASIR), Université Lille1-Sciences et Technologies, Bât C8, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France

    David Dumoulin, Sopheak Net & Baghdad Ouddane

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Arias, A.H., Souissi, A., Glippa, O. et al. Removal and Biodegradation of Phenanthrene, Fluoranthene and Pyrene by the Marine Algae Rhodomonas baltica Enriched from North Atlantic Coasts. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 98, 392–399 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-016-1967-4

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