Role of quorum sensing and quorum quenching in anaerobic digestion: A scoping review

P Anburajan, RD Cayetano, YM Prohim, NT Thau… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a biological process that employs anaerobic microorganisms to
degrade organic material, yielding biogas and biofertilizers. Understanding quorum sensing …

Regulation and application of quorum sensing on anaerobic digestion system

L He, G Zhu - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS) plays an important role in the social behavior of microbial
communities. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a biological process using anaerobic …

The impact of sunlight on fouling behaviors and microbial communities in membrane bioreactors

H Park, SSA Shah, G Korshin, I Angelidaki… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling is a significant obstacle to applying membrane bioreactors (MBRs) for
wastewater treatment. Here we report the impact of sunlight irradiation on membrane …

Long-chain fatty acids facilitate acidogenic fermentation of food waste: Attention to the microbial response and the change of core metabolic pathway under saturated …

Y Zheng, Z Wu, P Wang, Y Wei, K Jia, M Zhang… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) are recognized as a significant inhibitory factor in anaerobic
digestion of food waste (FW), yet they are inevitably present in FW due to lipid hydrolysis …

Roles and opportunities of quorum sensing in natural and engineered anaerobic digestion systems

X Liu, J Luo, Q Xu, Q Lu, B Ni, D Wang - Water Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a biological process in which anaerobic microorganisms convert
organic matter into methane-rich gas, contributing to the cycling of carbon and other …

New insights into multi-strategies of sludge granulation in up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors from community succession and interaction

Y Xiao, X Wang, P Wang, Z Zhou, H Wang, T Teng… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aimed to elucidate the multiple strategies employed by anaerobes during
granulation in a laboratory upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor, based on microbial …

Polysulfone-reinforced quorum quenching media with silica cage encapsulation: Advancing biofouling control in anaerobic membrane bioreactors

SSA Shah, J Kim, H Park, N Mameda, K Lee… - Journal of Membrane …, 2025 - Elsevier
Microbial quorum quenching (QQ) using live QQ cells entrapped in a hydrophilic polymer
network (eg, hydrogel) reduces membrane biofouling but encounters challenges regarding …

Exploring the effect of lipid loading on acidogenic fermentation of food waste: Insights from microbiome, quorum sensing and carbon metabolic pathway

Y Zheng, K Jia, M Zhang, L Zhao, P Wang, H Ma… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The high lipid loading in food waste (FW) is widely regarded as one of the main bottlenecks
in the traditional anaerobic digestion, but the effect of lipid on FW acidogenic fermentation …

Linguistics of microbiota-Quorum sensing in anaerobic digestion, biochemistry, characteristics, and perspectives of future research–a mini-review

M Kozłowski, K Marycz, A Białowiec - Process Biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
This manuscript discusses the mechanism of quorum sensing, provides a brief description of
the phenomenon, biochemistry properties, and quorum quenching mechanism, and …

Low-carbon circular bioeconomy: Opportunities and challenges

HS Lee, SV Mohan - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The current economic structure of the growing population needs new paradigms and
disruptive technologies to simultaneously tackle several key issues of limited energy and …