<Supplemental Materials> Bacterial community compositions in sediment polluted by perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) using Illumina high-throughput sequencing Yajun Sun a, b, Tieyu Wang a,*, Xiawei Peng a, b, Pei Wang a, Yonglong Lu a State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China b College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China * Corresponding author: Tel: +86 10 62849466; Fax: +86 10 62918177 E-mail address: wangty@rcees.ac.cn (T. Wang) 1 Table S1 HPLC and ESI-MS Instrument Conditions. Table S2 Target analytes of 12 PFASs measured in this study with QA/QC information. QA/QC information including matrix spike recovery (MSR) and procedure recovery (PR), which were presented as Mean ± SD (Mean: Arithmetic mean; SD: Standard deviation; n indicates the number of samples analyzed.), limit of detection (LOD), and limit of quantification (LOQ). Table S3 Percentage of major classes in each sample (%) Table S4 Spearman correlation coefficients of environmental factors (Spearman correlation coefficients with p < 0.01 and p < 0.05 are shown in red). *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 2 Table S1 HPLC and ESI-MS Instrument Conditions HPLC conditions Analytical column Aglient ZORBAX Eclipse Plus C18, 2.1×100 mm, 3.5 μm Guard column Agilent 1290 Infinity In-line filter with 0.3 μm SS frit Column temperature 40 °C Injection volume 5 μL Mobile phase A = 2 mM ammonium acetate B = 100% Acetonitrile Run time 16 min + 4 min post time Flow rate 0.3 mL/min Gradient Time (min) Mobile phase 0 20% B 14 90% B 16 90% B MS conditions Acquisition parameters ESI mode, negative ionization; MRM Source gas temperature 350 °C Source gas flow rate 9 L/min Nebulizer pressure 40 psi Capiliary 3500 V positive; 4000 V negative Delta EMV(-) 200-400 V 3 Table S2 Target analytes of 12 PFAAs measured in this study with QA/QC information Analyte Acronym Carbon MS/MS Frag CE %MSR %PR LOD LOQ number transition (V) (V) (n=4) (n=4) (ng/g dw) Perfluorocarboxylic acid PFCAs Perfluoro-butanoic acid PFBA C4 213.0 → 169.1 57 1 100±5 103±7 0.020 0.10 Perfluoro-pentanoic acid PFPeA C5 263.0 → 218.9 68 2 104±3 101±9 0.010 0.03 Perfluoro-hexanoic acid PFHxA C6 313.0 → 269.0 68 3 110±3 102±5 0.004 0.01 313.0 → 119.0 62 15 363.0 → 318.9 68 4 96±6 92±2 0.006 0.02 363.0 → 169.0 70 9 413.0 → 368.9 82 4 100±11 107±3 0.002 0.01 413.0 → 169.0 82 12 413.0 → 219.0 82 10 463.0 → 419.0 82 3 109±2 120±6 0.002 0.01 463.0 → 169.0 66 15 513.0 → 468.9 86 3 103±7 101±9 0.004 0.01 513.0 → 219.0 78 13 563.0 → 519.0 90 5 90±4 101±10 0.008 0.02 563.0 → 319.0 84 15 613.0 → 569.0 90 5 89±4 92±5 0.004 0.01 613.0 → 169.0 80 23 299.0 → 80.0 135 32 119±4 103±9 0.004 0.01 299.0 → 99.0 132 24 399.0 → 80.0 150 40 114±8 112±4 0.004 0.01 399.0 → 99.0 146 34 498.9 → 80.0 154 47 117±2 92±6 0.004 0.01 498.9 → 99.0 150 42 Perfluoro-heptanoic acid Perfluoro-octanoic acid Perfluoro-nonanoic acid Perfluoro-decanoic acid Perfluoro-undecanoic acid Perfluoro-dodecanoic acid PFHpA PFOA PFNA PFDA PFUdA PFDoA Perfluorinated sulfonic acid PFSAs Perfluoro-butanesulfonate PFBS Perfluoro-hexanesulfonate Perfluoro-octanesulfonate PFHxS PFOS C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C4 C6 C8 Internal standards 13 13 - 217.0 → 172.0 57 1 - - - - 13 13 - 315.0 → 270.0 68 3 - - - - 13 13 - 417.0 → 372.0 82 4 - - - - 13 13 - 468.0 → 423.0 82 3 - - - - 13 13 - 515.0 → 470.0 86 3 - - - - 13 13 - 565.0 → 520.0 90 5 - - - - 13 13 - 615.0 → 570.0 90 5 - - - - 18 18 - 403.0 → 103.0 150 40 - - - - 13 13 - 503.0 → 99.0 154 47 - - - - C4 Perfluoro-butanoic acid C4 Perfluoro-hexanoic acid C4 Perfluoro-octanoic acid C4 Perfluoro-nonanoic acid C4 Perfluoro-decanoic acid C4 Perfluoro-undecanoic acid C2 Perfluoro-dodecanoic acid O2 Perfluoro-hexanesulfonate C4 Perfluoro-octanesulfonate C4 PFBA C4 PFHxA C4 PFOA C4 PFNA C4 PFDA C4 PFUdA C2 PFDoA O2 PFHxS C4 PFOS 4 Table S3 Percentage of the major classes in each sample (%) Class XQ1 XQ2 XQ3 XQ4 XQ5 XQ6 XQ7 XQ8 XQ9 XQ10 β-Proteobacteria 18.9 20.7 36.7 31.9 39.1 26.0 21.5 17.1 22.5 7.3 γ-Proteobacteria 17.3 19.5 15.7 24.5 16.4 15.7 17.7 17.0 19.8 21.1 δ-Proteobacteria 8.9 6.9 7.3 6.0 3.7 8.9 9.7 9.2 10.9 6.2 Gemmatimonadetes-1 8.2 6.6 4.2 2.6 1.3 5.1 6.6 4.6 3.8 2.0 α-Proteobacteria 4.2 4.1 1.9 4.0 2.2 3.7 5.0 5.8 5.3 13.9 Sphingobacteria 2.9 2.4 2.7 2.5 0.7 3.3 2.4 2.7 1.4 1.7 Pedosphaerae 2.3 4.0 4.1 1.4 0.6 2.9 1.9 2.3 1.1 0.8 Anaerolineae 2.2 2.2 1.3 1.3 0.6 2.6 2.1 3.2 4.1 3.0 Acidobacteria-6 1.9 4.1 1.3 1.3 0.5 1.6 3.4 4.8 2.2 1.4 Nitrospira 1.9 1.6 1.8 1.1 0.6 1.9 2.7 1.6 2.6 0.8 Verrucomicrobiae 1.3 2.8 1.1 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.1 0.9 1.1 2.2 Flavobacteria 1.3 1.8 2.2 3.1 0.9 1.9 2.8 1.9 1.3 15.8 Bacteroidia 1.0 0.7 3.1 1.9 0.7 2.8 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1 ε-Proteobacteria 0.6 0.8 1.2 1.7 23.4 0.9 0.7 0.7 1.2 3.7 Others 27.1 21.8 15.4 15.4 7.9 21.3 21.2 27.1 21.6 19 5 Table S4 Spearman correlation coefficients of environmental factors (Spearman correlation coefficients with p < 0.01 and p < 0.05 are shown in red). T DO Conductiv ity Salinity pH TOC TN TP Moistur e Clay Powder Sand T DO Conducti -0.110 -0.006 0.742* Salinity -0.107 0.591 0.936** pH -0.040 0.362 -0.278 -0.427 TOC -0.316 0.018 -0.188 -0.231 -0.062 TN -0.003 -0.141 -0.263 -0.408 0.078 0.850** TP -0.024 -0.231 -0.600 -0.523 0.247 0.515 0.239 Moisture 0.055 -0.134 -0.285 -0.347 -0.086 0.733* 0.771** 0.442 Clay 0.030 -0.383 -0.103 -0.164 -0.358 0.358 0.587 -0.164 0.455 Powder -0.310 -0.231 -0.212 -0.255 -0.204 0.564 0.440 0.394 -0.212 0.079 Sand 0.134 -0.353 0.248 0.298 0.210 -0.697* -0.679* -0.345 -0.370 -0.527 -0.818** PFOA 0.158 -0.073 0.200 0.219 -0.401 0.430 0.575 -0.200 0.600 0.624 -0.188 vity *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 6 -0.164 PFO A