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. 2014 Oct 9;45(3):1055–1063. doi: 10.1590/s1517-83822014000300039

Bioremediation of dyes by fungi isolated from contaminated dye effluent sites for bio-usability

Babita Rani 1, Vivek Kumar 2,✉, Jagvijay Singh 3, Sandeep Bisht 4, Priyanku Teotia 5, Shivesh Sharma 6, Ritu Kela 1
PMCID: PMC4204947  PMID: 25477943

Abstract

Biodegradation and detoxification of dyes, Malachite green, Nigrosin and Basic fuchsin have been carried out using two fungal isolates Aspergillus niger, and Phanerochaete chrysosporium, isolated from dye effluent soil. Three methods were selected for biodegradation, viz. agar overlay and liquid media methods; stationary and shaking conditions at 25 °C. Aspergillus niger recorded maximum decolorization of the dye Basic fuchsin (81.85%) followed by Nigrosin (77.47%), Malachite green (72.77%) and dye mixture (33.08%) under shaking condition. Whereas, P. chrysosporium recorded decolorization to the maximum with the Nigrosin (90.15%) followed by Basic fuchsin (89.8%), Malachite green (83.25%) and mixture (78.4%). The selected fungal strains performed better under shaking conditions compared to stationary method; moreover the inoculation of fungus also brought the pH of the dye solutions to neutral from acidic. Seed germination bioassay study exhibited that when inoculated dye solutions were used, seed showed germination while uninoculated dyes inhibited germination even after four days of observation. Similarly, microbial growth was also inhibited by uninoculated dyes. The excellent performance of A. niger and P. chrysporium in the biodegradation of textile dyes of different chemical structures suggests and reinforces the potential of these fungi for environmental decontamination.

Keywords: bioremediation, dyes, fungi, microbial bioassay, seed germination

Introduction

Due to rapid industrialization and urbanization, a lot of chemicals including dyes are manufactured and are being used in day-to-day life. About 100,000 commercial dyes are manufactured including several varieties of dyes such as acidic, basic, reactive, azo, diazo, anthraquinone based meta complex dyes with an annual production of over 7 × 105 metric tons are commercially available (Campos et al., 2001). Approximately 50% of the dyes are released in the industrial effluents (Zollinger, 1991). They are used on several substrates in food, cosmetics, paper, plastic and textile industries. Some of them are dangerous to living organisms due to their potential toxicity and carcinogenicity. Dyes in wastewater often lead to calamities viz. the incidence of bladder tumors has been reported to be particularly higher in dye industry workers than in the general population (Suryavathi et al., 2005). Natural pigments used for coloring textiles have been replaced by “fast colors” which do not fade on exposure to light, heat and water. These features unfortunately go with the perils of harmful effluent quality. About 15% of the dyes used for textile dying are released into processing waters (Eichlerova et al., 2006). Besides being unaesthetic, these effluents are mutagenic, carcinogenic and toxic (Chung et al., 1992).

Commonly applied treatment methods for color removal from colored effluents consist of integrated processes involving various combinations of biological, physical and chemical decolorization methods (Galindo and Kalt, 1999; Robinson et al., 2001; Azbar et al., 2004), of these, approximately 10–15% of unused dyes enter the wastewater after dyeing and after the subsequent washing processes (Rajamohan and Karthikeyan, 2006). Chemical and physical methods for treatment of dye wastewater are not widely applied to textile industries because of exorbitant costs and disposal problems. Green technologies to deal with this problem include adsorption of dyestuffs on bacterial and fungal biomass (Fu and Viraraghavan, 2002; Yang et al., 2009) or low-cost non-conventional adsorbents (Crini 2006; Ferrero, 2007).

A variety of physicochemical treatments have been devised previously for the dyes and textile wastewater. However, these suffered from some serious drawbacks in terms of their limited applications or their high cost. Besides, chemical treatments created an additional chemical load in water bodies that eventually resulted in sludge disposal problems. Several factors determine the technical and economic feasibility of each single dye removal technique. These include; dye type and its concentration, wastewater composition, operation costs (energy and material), environmental fate and handling costs of generated waste products. A very small amount of dye in water (10–50 mg/L) is highly visible and reduces light penetration in water systems, thus causing a negative effect on photosynthesis (Khaled et al., 2010; Dhanjal et al., 2013).

Recently, dye removal became a research area of increasing interest, as government legislation concerning the release of contaminated effluent becomes more stringent. Various treatment methods for removal of dyes from industrial effluents like chemical coagulation using alum, lime, ferric chloride, ferric sulphate and electro coagulation are very time consuming and costly with low efficiency. Among the numerous water treatment technologies, research interest in the fungal bioremediation due to their biomass compared to the bacteria, has increased significantly for decolorization and degradation of synthetic dyes (Shahid et al., 2013).

Many authors have already worked with many microorganisms, the imperative bacteria being Staphylococcus arlettae (Elisangela et al., 2009); Lactic acid bacteria (Khaled et al., 2010); Pseudomonas putida (Leebana et al., 2012); Micrococcus luteus, Listeria denitrificans and Nocardia atlantica (Hassan et al., 2013) Bacillus megaterium (Joshi et al., 2013), and fungi viz. Basidiomycetous fungi (Machado et al., 2006); Tramates pubescens and Pleurotus ostreatus (Casieri et al., 2008); Aspergillus tamarii and Penicillium purpurogenum (Ramalingam et al., 2010); Aspergillus ochraceus (Tisma et al., 2012); and Pleurotus ostreatus (Siddique et al., 2012); Aspergillus niger, Fusarium oxysporum and Trichoderma lignorum (Shahid et al., 2013).

Keeping the above points in view, the main objectives of the problem were to screen and employ selected potential textile dye effluent soil fungal sp. capable to decolorize and detoxify the textile dyes using solid and liquid media under shaking and stationary conditions.

Methods and Materials

Chemicals and media

All the chemicals, dyes and media such as Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA), Potato Dextrose broth (PDB) and Nutrient agar (NA) were procured from Himedia, Mumbai, India.

Dyes used

Malachite green (4-[(4-dimethylaminophenyl) phenyl-methyl]-N, N-dimethylaniline) Molecular formula: C23H25ClN2,

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Nigrosin disodium; 4-amino-3-[(4-nitrophenyl) diazenyl] - 5-oxo-6- (phenylhydrazinylidene) naphthalene-2, 7-disulfonate, Molecular formula: (C22H14N6Na2O9S2),

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Basic fuchsin (4-[(4-Aminophenyl)-(4-imino-1-cyclohexa-2,5-dienylidene) methyl] aniline hydrochloride): Molecular formula: C20H20N3HCl) and mixture of all dyes.

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Source of fungal strains

The dye effluent soil-isolated (from Meerut region, Uttar Pradesh, India) fungal strains A. niger and P. chrysosporium were maintained on Potato Dextrose Agar (Himedia, Mumbai, India) and sub cultured periodically to maintain their viability. Identification of these soil fungal strains was done previously based on their morphological characters (Yao et al., 2009). These fungi have selected in present study because A. niger and P. chrysosporium has been widely studied for dye decolorization.

Screening of soil-derived fungi for dye decolorization activities

Sixty one dye effluent soil fungal strains were screened for their ability to degrade dyes using the tube overlay method. Initially, the fungal strains were grown on culture plates pre-filled with Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) and incubated at room temperature for 14 days. Following incubation, mycelial agar plugs (~5 mm2) were cut approximately 5 mm from the colony margin and inoculated on test tubes (in triplicates) containing 5 mL of PDA overlaid with 1 mL of PDA with 0.01% (w/v) respective textile dye. All culture tubes were incubated at room temperature (~25 °C) and observed weekly for up to four weeks. Clearing of the overlaid dye indicates full decolorization (+++). Partial dye decolorization (++) was indicated by less dye intensity in comparison with the control (uninoculated PDA overlaid with PDA + 0.01% dye). All the three fungal strains were selected on the basis of full or maximum (+++) decolorization.

Decolorization of dyes in solid medium (Tube overlay method)

The two selected fungal strains were further tested for their ability to decolorize on PDA and Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA) medium, Himedia, Mumbai, India. This was done to select which medium support better growth and dye decolorization activities of selected fungal isolates. Initially, all the three fungal strains were grown as previously described. Following incubation, fungal mycelial agar plugs (~5 mm2) were cut approximately 5 mm from the colony margin and inoculated on test tubes (in triplicates) each pre-filled with 2 mL of the Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) and SDA medium, supplemented separately with either with following dye 0.01% (w/v) Malachite green, Nigrosin and Basic fuchsin, respectively (Lopez et al., 2006). The culture tubes were then incubated at room temperature (~ 25 °C). The growth of the fungi and its ability to decolorize the dye were observed weekly up to four weeks. The depth of dye decolorization (in mm) indicated by clearing of the dye was then measured. Based upon growth of fungal strains and dye decolorization, for further studies PDA medium was chosen.

Assay for the dye decolorization activities of fungi in liquid media

The spores and mycelia of A. niger and P. chrysosporium were then dislodged from Petri plates using a flame-sterilized inoculating loop and mixed properly with one mL of sterile distilled water. From this mixture, 10 μL of the fungal spore and mycelium inoculum were added on culture vials (in triplicates) pre-filled with 25 mL Potato Dextrose Broth (PDB) supplemented with 0.01% of either one of the following dyes: Malachite green, Nigrosin and Basic fuchsin. Three sets were prepared and were incubated either under constant agitation/shaking (100 rpm, Yorko Scientific Orbital Shaker) or under stationary/without shaking condition (Park et al., 2007). All culture vials were incubated at room temperature (~25 °C) for 10 days and all assays were performed in triplicate. Growth and dye decolorization were noted every day. Following culture for 10 days, the culture filtrates were decanted and subjected to spectrophotometric analysis. Absorbance maxima of the tested dyes were read as malachite green-620 nm, Nigrosin-600 nm and Basic fuchsin-550 nm wavelength. The extent of dye decolorization by the soil fungal strains on liquid media was calculated using the formula below:

Pdd (%)=Absorbancec-AbsorbanceiAbsorbancec×100 (1)

where Pdd = Percent dye decolorization, Absorbancec = Absorbance control and Absorbancei = Absorbance inoculated.

Finally, the mycelial biomass were harvested on clean Petri plates and observed directly. Fungal hyphae were also mounted on clean glass slides and observed under a compound light microscope, make Olympus (1500x) for the biosorption of dyes.

Enzyme assay

Laccase activity was measured by using syringaldazine as a substrate as per the method of (Valmaseda et al., 1991). The activity was assayed using using 1.0 mL of 0.2 M sodium phosphate buffer (pH 5.7) and 0.2 mL syringaldazine (1.6 mg/mL) in absolute ethanol, (4.47 Mm). Reactions were initiated by the addition of syringaldazine and after mixing; incubations were conducted at 30 °C for 1 h, because after 1 h highest enzyme laccase activity was observed. The absorbance was measured in a spectrophotometer (ELICO SL 150) before (0 time) and after incubation (60 min) at 526 nm and the increase in absorbance was calculated. One unit activity was defined as the enzyme producing one absorption unit/min at 526 nm.

Seed germination bioassay

Effect of bioremediated and untreated dye solution was observed on wheat seed germination. The wheat seeds were sterilized using 0.1% HgCl2 solution for 50 s, washed 6–7 times with sterile distilled water to remove traces of HgCl2. In sterile Petri plates sterile filter paper was kept soaked in bioremediated, untreated dye solution and with sterile distilled water soaked filter paper as control, respectively. Ten wheat seeds were kept in each Petri plate and the experiment was conducted in triplicate. Observation on seed germination was taken for four days. The experiment was conducted at room temperature of 25 ± 1 °C.

Bacterial toxicity

Effect of bioremediated and untreated dye solution was observed on bacterial growth by measuring zone of inhibition. Log phase cells of E. coli, 0.1 mL of 10−8 were evenly spreaded on Petri plates and sterile filter paper discs impregnated with bioremediated, untreated dye solution and sterile distilled water were kept on the seeded bacterial cells at equidistance and pressed lightly and kept at 30 °C for 48 h, observation for zone of inhibition was observed, if any (Kumar, 2011).

Results

Out of 61 fungal isolates, two fungal isolates were selected after comprehensive screening of the textile dyes biodegradation for further studies.

In tube overlay method, highest decolorization was observed in Malachite green and Nigrocin (92.85 and 93.33% respectively), followed by Basic fuchsin (90.05%) by A. niger. The mixture of dye decolorization was 10.4%. In case of P. chrysosporium highest decolorization was observed in Maclachite green 71.42%, followed by Basic fuchsin (70%) and least was Nigrocin (8.33%), while the mixture decolorization was 9.6% (Figure 1).

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Dye decolorizationby soil fungi in tube overlay method.

Dye decolorization in liquid medium exhibited different tendency as that of tube overlay method. In this method highest decolorization by A. niger was observed in Basic fuchsin (81.85%), followed by Nigrocin (77.47%), Malachite green (72.77%) and least by dye mixture (33.08%) under shaking conditions. While, under static conditions, highest decolorization was observed in Basic fuchsin (79.77%), followed by Nigrocin (58.78%) and Malachite green (50.37%), least by dye mixture (24.38%) (Figure 2).

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Percent bioremediation of textile dyes by A. niger.

Similarly, dye decolorization in liquid medium by P. chrysosporium exhibited different tendency as that of tube overlay method. In this method highest decolorization was observed in Nigrosin (90.15%), followed by Basic fuchsin (89.8%), Malachite green (83.25%) and least by dye mixture (68.4%) under shaking conditions (Figure 3).

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Percent bioremediation of textile dyes by P. chrysosporium.

Under stationary conditions, highest decolorization was observed in Nigrosin (65.04%), followed by Malachite green (53.75%) and Basic fuchsin (52.6%) least by dye mixture (40.6%) (Figure 3).

Change in pH was also observed by A. niger and P. chrysosporium under shaking and stationary conditions. After inoculation, the pH of all the dye samples was increased to neutral or near neutral (Figures 4, 5).

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Change in pH after inoculation with A. niger under shaking (Sh) and stationary (St) conditions.

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Change in pH after inoculation with P. chrysosporium under shaking (Sh) and stationary (St) conditions.

Microbial bioassay study showed that untreated dye (control) inhibited the growth of E. coli on Pteriplates by forming a zone of inhibition, while the treated dye did not show any zone of inhibition (Figure 6). Moreover, seed germination examination also showed the effect of untreated and treated dyes on germination of seeds. It was found that germination percentage was higher upto 90% by treated dye, while the untreated (control) dye inhibited the germination of wheat seeds (Figure 7). Data of zone of clearnce and seed germination is not mentioned due to brevity.

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Antimicrobial assay of Basic fuchsin (C = control dye; T = treated dye).

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Germination assay of wheat seeds by treated and untreated dye.

Discussion

The use of these fungi, thus could offer a much cheaper and efficient alternative treatment of wastewaters contaminated heavily with textile dyes. However, even though qualitative assays using the tube overlay method are powerful tools in screening fungi for extracellular enzyme production, they are not conclusive in that a negative reaction is not an absolute confirmation of a species’ inability to produce a particular enzyme (Abdel-Raheem and Shearer, 2002). Hence, the tube agar overlay method (Lopez et al., 2006) only provides an easier and quicker method to screen a large number of fungal isolates for further studying dye decolorization activity.

The removal of the dye color is vital in the potential application of effluent soil fungal organisms as bioremediation agents in wastewater treatment plants and in runoff waters. Thus, it is essential to test dye contaminated soil fungal strains for dye decolorization in liquid medium. Aspergillus niger and P. chrysosporium bioremediated Nigrosin, Basic fuchsin and Malachite green within 6 days up to 90%. Kanmani et al. (2011) reported that Nigrosin was a substrate for the ligninolytic enzyme lignin peroxidase.

Microbes have developed enzyme systems for the decolourization of azo dyes, moreover, dye molecules display a high structural variety, and they are degraded by only few enzymes. These biocatalysts have one common mechanistic feature, they are all redox-active molecules and thus, exhibit relatively wide substrate specificities (Mester and Tien 2000). In the case of enzymatic remediation of azo dyes, azo reductases and laccases seem to be the most promising enzymes. These enzymes are multicopper phenol oxidases that decolourize azo dyes through a highly nonspecific free radical mechanism forming phenolic compounds, thereby avoiding the formation of toxic aromatic amines (Wong and Yu, 1999). Fungal systems appear to be most appropriate in the treatment of azo dyes (Ezeronye and Okerentugba, 1999). The capacity of fungi to reduce azo dyes is related to the formation of exo enzymes such as peroxidases and phenol oxidases. Peroxidases are hemoproteins that catalyze reactions in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (Duran et al., 2002). Laccase oxidizes the phenolic group of the phenolic azo dye, with the participation of one electron generating a phenoxy radical which is sequentially followed by oxidation to a carbonium ion. A nucleophilic attack by water on the phenolic ring carbon bearing the azo linkage to produce 3-diazenyl-benzenesulfonic acid (III) and 1, 2-naphthoquinone then takes place (Camarero et al., 2005).

Use of A. niger and P. crysosporium as dye biodegrader or decolorizer has been studied in this report and the efficient decolorization may be attributed to either through the action of extracellular enzymes such as laccase and/or biosorption by the fungal biomass. Laccase production by the soil fungal species have been studied, this test was performed to know, whether laccase enzyme plays any role in biodegradation of dyes. Furthermore, the soil fungal strains also showed promising decolorization activities against tested dyes (Figures 3, 4). Ali et al. (2009) and Vasudev (2011) exhibited that Malachite green was readily degraded in liquid culture by A. flavus, A. solani and some white rot fungi within six days up to 96%, as also shown in this study. Results of the dye biodegradation by soil fungi in this study using spectrophotometric analysis were even comparable with the percent dye decolorization exhibited by the white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor and Pleurotus ostreatus (Yao et al., 2009), and even P. chrysosporium (Bumpus and Brock, 1988).

Soil fungi possess ligninolytic enzymes and play an important role in the degradation of lignocellulose in soil ecosystems (Okino et al., 2000). These lignin-degrading enzymes are directly involved not only in the degradation of lignin in their natural lignocellulosic substrates but also in the degradation of various xenobiotic compounds, including dyes. Moreover, ligninolytic enzymes have been reported to oxidize many recalcitrant substances such as chlorophenols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organophosphorus compounds, and phenols (Wesenberg et al., 2003).

Additionally, it is not unusual for some species to demonstrate both enzyme-mediated degradation and biosorption in the decolorization of textile dyes (Park et al., 2007; Shahid et al., 2013). It is thus feasible that in addition to the production of extracellular enzymes, the ability of the dye effluent soil fungi to decolorize synthetic dyes is coupled also with their biosorption abilities (Kaushik and Malik, 2009). We have also observed dye absorption by the test fungal mycelium under light microscope (1500 x) (Figure 8). This may account for the more efficient textile dye biodegradation by the soil fungal strains (Kirby et al., 2000) (Figures1–4). It is therefore, possible that the ability of dye effluent soil-derived fungi to degrade malachite green, Nigrosin and Basic fuchsin as revealed in this study can be largely attributed to the lignin-degrading enzyme system of the organism. In addition to extracellular enzymes, it is also likely that dye decolorization activity of these fungi could also be attributed to the ability of their mycelia to adsorb/absorb the dye. Bioremediation rate of dyes was higher with individual dyes as compared to dye mixture, which could be due the reason that a mixture of dyes forms different complex structures which become resistant for biodegradation.

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Dye (Basic fuchsin) absorption and deolorization by A. niger hypha.

Biosorption of dyes occur essentially either through complexation, adsorption by physical forces, precipitation, entrapment in inner spaces of fungal mycelium, ion exchange due to surface ionization, and by formation of hydrogen bonds (Yeddou-Mezenner, 2010). Due to an increased cell-to-surface ratio, fungi have a greater physical contact with the environment. Thus, some fungi have demonstrated better dye adsorption potential exceeding that of activated charcoal (Fu and Viraraghavan, 2002).

Detoxification of all the dyes was finally confirmed by the wheat seed germination and bacterial growth bioassay. The untreated dyes inhibited the wheat seeds germination after four days of incubation, while the seed germination was observed after 48 h in treated dyes treatments. Similarly, filter paper discs impregnated with untreated dye solution exhibited zone of inhibition of microbial growth, while the discs impregnated with treated dyes showed no zone of inhibition. The results of this study suggest that potentially competent fungal strains can be efficiently used for detoxification and bioremediation of harmful dyes.

Conclusions

The decolorization of dyes was studied under stationary and shaking conditions; encouraging results were obtained after 3 days, but maximum decolorization of all the dyes were obtained after 6 days. In this study we have observed higher decolorization under shaking conditions by P. chrysosporium and A. niger, which could be due to better oxygenation of the fungus and regular contact of secreted enzymes with dye molecules to decolorize it, moreover agitation also helps the fungus to grow better. Disappearance of dye color may be due to biodegradation of chromophore in dye molecule because of extracelluar enzyme production by fungi along with absorption and adsorption. Due to the environmental friendly techniques it utilizes, bioremediation has been characterized as a soft technology. Its cost-effectiveness and the little disturbance in the environment render this technology a very attractive and alternative method of choice. The identification and research of new fungal strains with the aid of molecular techniques will further improve practical applications of fungi and it is anticipated that fungal remediation will be soon a reliable and competitive dye remediation technology.

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the Management, College of Applied Education & Health Sciences, Meerut, India for providing research facilities to carry out this work.

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