Macroscopic and spectroscopic analysis of lanthanide adsorption to bacterial cells |
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Authors: | Bryne T. Ngwenya J. Fred W. Mosselmans Kirk D. Atkinson Janette Tourney Valerie Olive |
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Affiliation: | a Environmental and Microbial Geochemistry Laboratory, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, United Kingdom b Diamond Light Source Ltd., Diamond House, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom c Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride G75 0QF, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | This study was designed to combine surface complexation modelling of macroscopic adsorption data with X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic (XAS) measurements to identify lanthanide sorption sites on the bacterial surface. The adsorption of selected representatives for light (La and Nd), middle (Sm and Gd) and heavy (Er and Yb) lanthanides was measured as a function of pH, and biomass samples exposed to 4 mg/L lanthanide at pH 3.5 and 6 were analysed using XAS. Surface complexation modelling was consistent with the light lanthanides adsorbing to phosphate sites, whereas the adsorption of middle and heavy lanthanides could be modelled equally well by carboxyl and phosphate sites. The existence of such mixed mode coordination was confirmed by Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) analysis, which was also consistent with adsorption to phosphate sites at low pH, with secondary involvement of carboxyl sites at high adsorption density (high pH). Thus, the two approaches yield broadly consistent information with regard to surface site identity and lanthanide coordination environment. Furthermore, spectroscopic analysis suggests that coordination to phosphate sites is monodentate at the metal/biomass ratios used. Based on the best-fitting pKa site, we infer that the phosphate sites are located on N-acetylglucosamine phosphate, the most likely polymer on gram-negative cells with potential phosphate sites that deprotonate around neutral pH. |
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