Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation: From Laboratory to Full-Scale Application
Table 2
Growth of anammox bacteria using basal medium with L-amino acids.
Amino acid
Plate concentration (mmol/L)
Alanine
0.5
n.d.
Arginine
0.6
n.d.
Asparagine
0.3
−
Aspartic acid
0.3
−
Cysteine
0.3
n.d.
Glutamic acid
5.0
n.d.
Glutamine
5.0
n.d.
Glycine
0.1
+
Histidine
0.1
−
Isoleucine
0.3
n.d.
Leucine
0.3
n.d.
Lysine
0.3
n.d.
Methionine
0.3
+
Phenylalanine
0.3
n.d.
Proline
2.0
n.d.
Serine
4.0
n.d.
Threonine
0.3
+
Tryptophan
0.1
+
Tyrosine
0.1
+
Valine
0.3
n.d.
Optical density (600 nm) after 7 days of incubation at 35°C, + means increase, − means decrease, and n.d. means not detected because of the color change.
