Direct microbial reduction and subsequent preservation of uranium in natural near-surface sediment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1790-1797

  Suzuki, Yohey ^a,d   Kelly, Shelly D ^b   Kemner, Kenneth M ^b   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYME KINETICS; MICROORGANISMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEDIMENTS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM MINES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MICROBIAL REDUCTION; POND LEVEL; PRECIPITATES; SHALLOW FRESHWATER;

URANIUM;

FERROUS SULFIDE; FRESH WATER; NITRATE; PYRITE; RNA 16S; SULFATE; URANIUM;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLONING; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOBACTERACEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 17444429682     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.4.1790-1797.2005     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Altschul, S. F., T. L. Madden, A. A. Schaffer, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, W. Miller, and D. J. Lipman. 1997. Basic local alignment search tool. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389-3402.
2. Anderson, R. T., H. A. Vrionis, I. Ortiz-Bernad, C. T. Resch, P. E. Long, R. Dayvault, K. Karp, S. Marutzky, D. R. Metzler, A. Peacock, D. C. White, M. Lowe, and D. R. Lovley. 2003. Stimulating the in situ activity of Geobacter species to remove uranium from the groundwater of a uranium-contaminated aquifer. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:5884-5891.
3. Barnes, C. E., and J. K. Cochran. 1993. Uranium geochemistry in estuarine sediments: controls on removal and release processes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57:555-569.
4. Berner, R. A. 1982. Burial of organic carbon and pyrite sulfur in the modern ocean: its geochemical and environmental significance. Am. J. Sci. 282:451-473.
5. Cross, J. L., and A. I. Frenkel. 1998. Use of scattered radiation for absolute energy calibration. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 70:38-40.
6. Dahlkamp, F. J. 1993. Uranium ore deposits. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
7. Degens, E. T., F. Khoo, and W. Michaelis. 1977. Uranium anomaly in black sea sediments. Nature 269:566-569.
8. Delong, E. F. 1992. Archaea in coastal marine environments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89:5685-5689.
9. Duff, M. C., C. Amrhein, P. M. Bertsch, and D. B. Hunter. 1997. The chemistry of uranium in evaporation pond sediment in the San Joaquin Valley, California, USA, using X-ray fluorescence and XANES techniques. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61:73-81.
10. Elias, D. A., L. R. Krumholz, D. Wong, P. E. Long, and J. M. Suflita. 2003. Characterization of microbial activities and U reduction in a shallow aquifer contaminated with uranium mill tailings. Microb. Ecol. 46:83-91.
11. Finneran, K. T., C. V. Johnsen, and D. R. Lovley. 2003. Rhodoferax ferrireducens sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, facultatively anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes acetate with the reduction of Fe(III). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53:669-673.
12. Finneran, K. T., M. E. Housewright, and D. R. Lovley. 2002. Multiple influences of nitrate on uranium solubility during bioremediation of uranium contaminated subsurface sediments. Environ. Microbiol. 4:510-516.
13. Finneran, K. T., R. T. Anderson, K. P. Nevin, and D. R. Lovley. 2002. Potential for uranium bioremediation by microbial U(VI) reduction. Soil. Sed. Contam. 11:339-357.
14. Holmes, D. E., K. T. Finneran, R. A. O'Neil, and D. R. Lovley. 2002. Enrichment of members of the family Geobacteraceae associated with stimulation of dissimilatory metal reduction in uranium-contaminated aquifer sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:2300-2306.
15. Jeon, O. H., S. D. Kelly, K. M. Kemner, M. O. Barnett, W. D. Burgos, B. A. Dempsey, and E. E. Roden. 2004. Microbial reduction of U(VI) at the solid-water interface. Environ. Sci. Technol. 38:5649-5655.
16. Jorgensen, B. B. 1982. Mineralization of organic matter in the sea bed - the role of sulphate reduction. Nature 296:643-645.
17. Kemner, K. M., A. J. Kropf, and B. A. Bunker. 1994. A low-temperature total electron yield detector for X-ray absorption fine structure spectra. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 65:3667-3669.
18. Klinkhammer, G. P., and M. R. Palmer. 1991. Uranium in the ocean: where it goes and why. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 55:1799-1806.
19. Kochenov, A. V., K. G. Korolev, V. T. Dubinchuk, and T. L. Medvedev. 1978. Experimental data on the conditions of precipitation of uranium from aqueous solutions. Geochem. Int. 14:82-87.
20. Kodama, Y., and K. Watanabe. 2003. Isolation and characterization of a sulfur-oxidizing chemolithotroph growing on crude oil under anaerobic conditions. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:107-112.
21. Lane, D. J. 1991.16S/23S rRNA sequencing, p. 115-175. In E. Stackebrandt and M. Goodfellow (ed.), Nucleic acid techniques in bacterial systematics. John Wiley and Sons, New York, N.Y.
22. Langmuir, D. 1978. Uranium solution-mineral equilibria at low temperatures with applications to sedimentary ore deposits. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 42:547-569.
23. Liger, E., L. Charlet, and P. V. Cappellen. 1999. Surface catalysis of uranium(VI) reduction by iron(II). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63:2939-2955.
24. 2(s). Environ. Sci. Technol. 36:1452-1459.
25. Lovley, D. R. 2000. Fe(III)- and Mn(IV)-reducing prokaryotes. In M. Dworkin, S. Falkow, E. Rosenberg, K.-H. Schleifer, and E. Stackebrandt (ed.), The prokaryotes. Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y.
26. Lovley, D. R. 2001. Anaerobes to the rescue. Science 294:1444-1446.
27. Lovley, D. R., E. E. Roden, E. J. P. Phillips, and J. C. Woodward. 1993. Enzymatic iron and uranium reduction by sulfate-reducing bacteria. Mar. Geol. 113:41-53.
28. Lovley, D. R., and E. J. P. Phillips. 1987. Rapid assay for microbially reducible ferric iron in aquatic sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 53:1536-1540.
29. Lovley, D. R., E. J. P. Phillips, Y. A. Gorby, and E. R. Landa. 1991. Microbial reduction of uranium. Nature 350:413-416.
30. 3 of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:3572-3576.
31. Luther, G. W., III, B. T. Glazer, J. I. Popp, M. Taillefert, T. F. Rozan, P. J. Brendel, S. M. Therberge, and D. B. Nuzzio. 2001. Sulfur speciation monitored in situ with solid gold amalgam voltammetric microelectrodes: polysulfides as a special case in sediments, microbial mats and hydrothermal vent waters. J. Environ. Monit. 2:61-66.
32. Maynard, J. B. 1983. Geochemistry of sedimentary ore deposits. Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y.
33. 2S in seawater as a function of temperature, pH, and ionic strength. Environ. Sci. Technol. 21:439-443.
34. Millero, F. J., S. Sotolongo, and M. Izaguirre. 1987. The oxidation kinetics of Fe(II) in seawater. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 51:793-801.
35. Nevin, K. P., and D. R. Lovley. 2000. Potential for nonenzymatic reduction of Fe(III) during microbial oxidation of organic matter coupled to Fe(III) reduction. Environ. Sci. Technol. 34:2472-2478.
36. Ohmoto, H., and A. C. Lasaga. 1982. Kinetics of reactions between aqueous sulfates and sulfides in hydrothermal systems. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 46:1727-1745.
37. Revsbech, N. P., B. B. Jorgensen, and T. H. Blackburn. 1980. Oxygen in the sea bottom measured with a microelectrode. Science 207:1355-1356.
38. Reynolds, R. L., M. B. Goldhaber, and D. J. Carpenter. 1982. Biogenic and nonbiogenic ore-forming processes in the South Texas uranium district: evidence from the Panna Maria deposit. Econ. Geol. 77:541-556.
39. Roling, W. F., B. M. van Breukelen, M. Braster, B. Lin, and H. W. van Verseveld. 2001. Relationships between microbial community structure and hydrochemistry in a landfill leachate-polluted aquifer. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:4619-4629.
40. Rooney-Varga, J. N., R. T. Anderson, J. L. Fraga, D. Ringelberg, and D. R. Lovley. 2001. Microbial communities associated with anaerobic benzene degradation in a petroleum-contaminated aquifer. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:3056-3063.
41. Segre, C. U., N. E. Leyarovska, L. D. Chapman, W. M. Lanender, P. W. Plag, A. S. King, A. J. Kropf, B. A. Bunker, K. M. Kemner, P. Dutta, R. S. Druan, and J. Kaduk. 2001. The MRCAT insertion device beamline at the Advanced Photon Source. Synch. Rad. Instrum. 521:419-422.
42. Senke, J. M., J. D. Istok, J. M. Suflita, and L. R. Krumholz. 2002. In-situ evidence for uranium immobilization and remobilization. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36:1491-1496.
43. Snoeyenbos-West, O. L., K. P. Nevin, R. T. Anderson, and D. R. Lovley. 2000. Enrichment of Geobacter species in response to stimulation of Fe(III) reduction in sandy aquifer sediments. Microb. Ecol. 39:153-167.
44. Stein, L. Y., M. T. La Duc, T. J. Grundl, and K. H. Nealson. 2001. Bacterial and archaeal populations associated with freshwater ferromanganous micronodules and sediments. Environ. Microbiol. 3:10-18.
45. Stern, E. A., M. Newville, B. Ravel, Y. Yacoby, and D. Haskel. 1995. The UWXAFS analysis package: philosophy and details. Physica B 208-209:117-120.
46. Suzuki, Y., S. D. Kelly, K. M. Kemner, and J. F. Banfield. 2002. Nanometer-size products of uranium bioreduction. Nature 419:134.
47. Suzuki, Y., S. D. Kelly, K. M. Kemner, and J. F. Banfield. 2003. Microbial populations stimulated for hexavalent uranium reduction in uranium mine sediment. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:1337-1346.
48. Suzuki, Y., S. D. Kelly, K. M. Kemner, and J. F. Banfield. 2004. Enzymatic reduction of U(VI) by Desulfosporosinus spp. Radiochim. Acta 92:11-16.
49. Swofford, D. L. 1999. PAUP*: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (*and other methods), version 4.02. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass.
50. Taylor, S. R. 1964. Abundance of chemical elements in the continental crust: a new table. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 28:1273-1284.
51. Tebo, B., and A. Y. Obraztsova. 1998. Sulfate-reducing bacterium grows with Cr(VI), U(VI), Mn(IV), and Fe(III) as electron acceptors. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 162:193-198.
52. Wagner, M., A. D. Roger, J. L. Flax, G. A. Brusseau, and D. A. Stahl. 1998. Phylogeny of dissimilatory sulfite reductases supports an early origin of sulfate respiration. J. Bacteriol. 180:2975-2982.
53. Wersin, P., M. F. Hochella, Jr., P. Persson, R. Redden, J. O. Leckie, and D. Harris. 1994. Interaction between aqueous uranium(VI) and sulfide minerals: spectroscopic evidence for sorption and reduction. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 58:2829-2843.