Abstract An increasing amount of industrial chemicals are being released into wastewater collection systems and indigenous microbial communities in treatment plants not always effective for their removal. In this work, extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) recovered from aerobic granular sludge (AGS) were used as a natural carrier to immobilize specific strain, Rhodococcus sp. FP1, able degr...

• EPS-C, N, P preferentially retained during adsorption and coprecipitation with Fh. EPS mass uptake selective fractionation opposite for the two formation pathways. Proteins acidic polysaccharides selectively in complexes. Lipids polysaccharide components coprecipitates. Differential sorption process of Fh revealed by 2D-COS-FTIR. Recent work shows that microbially-derived compounds constitute...

Abstract The roles extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) play in mineral attachment and weathering were studied using genetically modified biofilms of the rock-inhabiting fungus Knufia petricola strain A95. Mutants deficient melanin and/or carotenoid synthesis grown as air-exposed biofilms. Extracted EPS quantified characterised a combination analytical techniques. absence affected quantity ...