Microbial transformations of arsenic: Mobilization from glauconitic sediments to water

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2859-2868

  Mumford, Adam C ^a   Barringer, Julia L ^b   Benzel, William M ^b   Reilly, Pamela A ^b   Young, L Y ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

ArrA; Arsenate; Groundwater; Microbes; Microbial reduction; Mobilization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; IRON; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

ARRA; ARSENATE; COASTAL PLAIN; MICROBE; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; MICROBIAL TRANSFORMATION; MOBILISATION; NEW JERSEY; STREAMBEDS; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS;

GROUNDWATER;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; GROUND WATER; IRON; PRIMER RNA; RNA 16S;

ARSENATE; ARSENIC; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DISCHARGE; GLAUCONITE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; MOBILITY; MOBILIZATION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; SIDERITE; STREAM; STREAM BED;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COASTAL PLAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84860453398     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.02.044     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Alfreider A., Vogt C., Babel W. Microbial diversity in an in situ reactor system treating onochlorobenzene contaminated groundwater as revealed by 16S ribosomal DNA analysis. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 2002, 25:232-240.
2. Anawar H., Akai J., Yoshioka T., Konohira E., Lee J., Fukuhara H., Tari Kul Alam M., Garcia-Sanchez A. Mobilization of arsenic in groundwater of Bangladesh: evidence from an incubation study. Environmental Geochemistry and Health 2006, 28:553-565.
3. Annable W.K., Frape S.K., Shouakar-Stash O., Shanoff T., Drimmie R.J., Harvey F.E. 37Cl, 15N, 13C isotopic analysis of common agro-chemicals for identifying non-point source agricultural contaminants. Applied Geochemistry 2007, 22:1530-1536.
4. Babechuk M.G., Weisener C.G., Fryer B.J., Paktunc D., Maunders C. Microbial reduction of ferrous arsenate: biogeochemical implications for arsenic mobilization. Applied Geochemistry 2009, 24:2332-2341.
5. Barringer J.L., Szabo Z., Barringer T.H. Arsenic and Metals in Soils in the Vicinity of the Imperial Oil Company Superfund Site 1998, US Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report, Marlboro Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, pp. 98-4016.
6. Barringer J.L., Mumford A., Young L.Y., Reilly P.A., Bonin J.L., Rosman R. Pathways for arsenic from sediments to groundwater to streams: biogeochemical processes in the Inner Coastal Plain, New Jersey, USA. Water Research 2010, 44:5532-5544.
7. Barringer J.L., Reilly P.A., Eberl D.D., Blum A.E., Bonin J.L., Rosman R., Hirst B., Alebus M., Cenno K., Gorska M. Arsenic in sediments, groundwater, and streamwater of a glauconitic Coastal Plain terrain, New Jersey, USA-chemical " fingerprints" for geogenic and anthropogenic sources. Applied Geochemistry 2011, 26:763-776.
8. Bentley R., Chasteen T.G. Microbial methylation of metalloids: arsenic, antimony, and bismuth. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 2002, 66:250-271.
9. Bhattacharya P., Jacks G., Ahmed K.M., Routh J., Khan A.A. Arsenic in groundwater of the Bengal delta plain aquifers in Bangladesh. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 2002, 69:538-545.
10. Briggs P.H., Meier A.L. The Determination of Forty-Two Elements in Geological Materials by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry for NAWQA 2002, US Geological Survey, Open-File Report 02-223-J.
11. Brown Z.A., Curry K.J. Total Carbon by Combustion 2002, US Geological Survey, Open-File Report 02-223-R.
12. Brown Z.A., Papp C., Brandt E., Aruscavage P. Carbonate Carbon by Coulometric Titration 2002, US Geological Survey, Open-File Report 02-223-S.
13. Bundschuh J., Litter M., Ciminelli V.S.T., Morgada M.E., Cornejo L., Hoyos S.G., Hoinkis J., Alarcón-Herrera M.T., Armienta M.A., Bhattacharya P. Emerging mitigation needs and sustainable options for solving the arsenic problems of rural and isolated urban areas in Latin America - a critical analysis. Water Research 2010, 44:5828-5845.
14. Cummings D.E., Caccavo F., Fendorf S., Rosenzweig R.F. Arsenic mobilization by the dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium Shewanella alga BrY. Environmental Science & Technology 1999, 33:723-729.
15. Dooley, J.H., 1998. Comprehensive chemistry of select greensand from the New Jersey Coastal Plain. 98-1, NJ Geological Survey Technical Memorandum 98-1, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton.
16. Dooley, J.H., 2001. Baseline concentrations of arsenic, beryllium, and associated elements in glauconite and glauconitic soils in the New Jersey Coastal Plain. NJ Geological Survey Investigation Report, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton.
17. Eberl, D.D., 2003. User's guide to rockjock - a program for determining quantitative mineralogy from powder x-ray diffraction data. US Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-78.
18. Holmes D.E., O'Neil R.A., Vrionis H.A., N'Guessan L.A., Ortiz-Bernad I., Larrahondo M.J., Adams L.A., Ward J.A., Nicoll J.S., Nevin K.P., Chavan M.A., Johnson J.P., Long P.E., Lovley D.R. Subsurface clade of Geobacteraceae that predominates in a diversity of Fe(III)-reducing subsurface environments. The ISME Journal 2007, 1:663-677.
19. Islam F.S., Gault A.G., Boothman C., Polya D.A., Charnock J.M., Chatterjee D., Lloyd J.R. Role of metal-reducing bacteria in arsenic release from Bengal delta sediments. Nature 2004, 430:68-71.
20. Jönsson J., Sherman D.M. Sorption of As(III) and As(V) to siderite, green rust (fougerite) and magnetite: implications for arsenic release in anoxic groundwaters. Chemical Geology 2008, 255:173-181.
21. Kar S., Maity J.P., Jean J.-S., Liu C.-C., Nath B., Yang H.-J., Bundschuh J. Arsenic-enriched aquifers: occurrences and mobilization of arsenic in groundwater of Ganges Delta Plain, Barasat, West Bengal, India. Applied Geochemistry 2010, 25:1805-1814.
22. Kilb B., Eschweiler B., Preuß G., Ziemann E., Schöttler U. Darstellung der mikobiellen Besiedlungsstruktur verschiedener Grundwasserhabitate durch Anwendung molekularbiologischer Methoden. Acta hydrochimica et hydrobiologica 1998, 26:349-354.
23. Lane D.J. Nucleic Acid Techniques in Bacterial Systematics 1991, John Wiley and Sons, New York. E. Stackebrandt, M. Goodfellow (Eds.).
24. Larkin M.A., Blackshields G., Brown N.P., Chenna R., McGettigan P.A., McWilliam H., Valentin F., Wallace I.M., Wilm A., Lopez R., Thompson J.D., Gibson T.J., Higgins D.G. Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0. Bioinformatics 2007, 23:2947-2948.
25. Liu A., Garcia-Dominguez E., Rhine E.D., Young L.Y. A novel arsenate respiring isolate that can utilize aromatic substrates. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2004, 48:323-332.
26. Ludwig W., Strunk O., Westram R., Richter L., Meier H., Yadhukumar, Buchner A., Lai T., Steppi S., Jobb G., Forster W., Brettske I., Gerber S., Ginhart A.W., Gross O., Grumann S., Hermann S., Jost R., Konig A., Liss T., Lussmann R., May M., Nonhoff B., Reichel B., Strehlow R., Stamatakis A., Stuckmann N., Vilbig S., Lenke M., Ludwig T., Bode A., Schleifer K. ARB, a software environment for sequence data. Nucleic Acids Research 2004, 32:1363-1371.
27. Malasarn D., Saltikov C.W., Campbell K.M., Santini J.M., Hering J.G., Newman D.K. arrA is a reliable marker for As(V) respiration. Science 2004, 306:455.
28. National Research Council Arsenic in Drinking Water 1999, National Academy Press, WashingtonD.C.
29. National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI VecScreen 2010, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/VecScreen/VecScreen.html.
30. Oremland R.S., Hoeft S.E., Santini J.M., Bano N., Hollibaugh R.A., Hollibaugh J.T. Anaerobic oxidation of arsenite in Mono lake water and by a facultative, arsenite-oxidizing chemoautotroph, strain MLHE-1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2002, 68:4795-4802.
31. Oremland R.S., Stolz J.F. The ecology of arsenic. Science 2003, 300:939-944.
32. Pearcy C.A., Chevis D.A., Haug T.J., Jeffries H.A., Yang N., Tang J., Grimm D.A., Johannesson K.H. Evidence of microbially mediated arsenic mobilization from sediments of the Aquia aquifer, Maryland, USA. Applied Geochemistry 2011, 26:575-586.
33. Perez-Jimenez J.R., DeFraia C., Young L.Y. Arsenate respiratory reductase gene (arrA) for Desulfosporosinus sp. strain Y5. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2005, 338:825-829.
34. Pruesse E., Quast C., Knittel K., Fuchs B.M., Ludwig W., Peplies J., Glockner F.O. SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB. Nucleic Acids Research 2007, 35:7188-7196.
35. Reza A.H.M.S., Jean J.-S., Lee M.-K., Yang H.-J., Liu C.-C. Arsenic enrichment and mobilization in the Holocene alluvial aquifers of the Chapai-Nawabganj district, Bangladesh: a geochemical and statistical study. Applied Geochemistry 2010, 25:1280-1289.
36. Richey C., Chovanec P., Hoeft S.E., Oremland R.S., Basu P., Stolz J.F. Respiratory arsenate reductase as a bidirectional enzyme. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2009, 382:298-302.
37. Rhine E.D., Garcia-Dominguez E., Phelps C.D., Young L.Y. Environmental microbes can speciate and cycle arsenic. Environmental Science & Technology 2005, 39:9569-9573.
38. Rhine E.D., Onesios K.M., Serfes M.E., Reinfelder J.R., Young L.Y. Arsenic transformation and mobilization from minerals by the arsenite oxidizing strain WAO. Environmental Science & Technology 2008, 42:1423-1429.
39. Rowland H.A.L., Boothman C., Pancost R., Gault A.G., Polya D.A., Lloyd J.R. The role of indigenous microorganisms in the biodegradation of naturally occurring petroleum, the reduction of iron, and the mobilization of arsenite from West Bengal aquifer sediments. Journal of Environmental Quality 2009, 38:1598-1607.
40. Saltikov C.W., Newman D.K. Genetic identification of a respiratory arsenate reductase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2003, 100:10983-10988.
41. Santini J.M., vanden Hoven R.N., Macy J.M. Environmental Chemistry of Arsenic 2002, Marcel Dekker, New York, NY. W.T. Frankenberger (Ed.).
42. Saunders J.A., Lee M.K., Shamsudduha M., Dhakal P., Uddin A., Chowdury M.T., Ahmed K.M. Geochemistry and mineralogy of arsenic in (natural) anaerobic groundwaters. Applied Geochemistry 2008, 23:3205-3214.
43. Schloss P.D., Westcott S.L., Ryabin T., Hall J.R., Hartmann M., Hollister E.B., Lesniewski R.A., Oakley B.B., Parks D.H., Robinson C.J., Sahl J.W., Stres B., Thallinger G.G., Van Horn D.J., Weber C.F. Introducing mothur: open-source, platform-independent, community-supported software for describing and comparing microbial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2009, 75:7537-7541.
44. Smedley P.L., Kinniburgh D.G. A review of the source, behaviour and distribution of arsenic in natural waters. Applied Geochemistry 2002, 17:517-568.
45. Smith A.H., Lopipero P.A., Bates M.N., Steinmaus C.M. Arsenic epidemiology and drinking water standards. Science 2002, 296:2145-2146.
46. Song B., Chyun E., Jaffé P.R., Ward B.B. Molecular methods to detect and monitor dissimilatory arsenate-respiring bacteria (DARB) in sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2009, 68:108-117.
47. Stolz J.F., Perera E., Kilonzo B., Kail B., Crable B., Fisher E., Ranganathan M., Wormer L., Basu P. Biotransformation of 3-nitro-4-hydroxybenzene arsonic acid (roxarsone) and release of inorganic arsenic by Clostridium species. Environmental Science & Technology 2007, 41:818-823.
48. Tufano K.J., Reyes C., Saltikov C.W., Fendorf S. Reductive processes controlling arsenic retention: revealing the relative importance of iron and arsenic reduction. Environmental Science & Technology 2008, 42:8283-8289.
49. Vitòria L., Soler A., Canals à., Otero N. Environmental isotopes (N, S, C, O, D) to determine natural attenuation processes in nitrate contaminated waters: example of Osona (NE Spain). Applied Geochemistry 2008, 23:3597-3611.
50. Zargar K., Hoeft S., Oremland R., Saltikov C.W. Identification of a novel arsenite oxidase gene, arxA, in the haloalkaliphilic, arsenite-oxidizing bacterium Alkalilimnicola erlichii MLHE-1. Journal of Bacteriology 2010, 192:3755-3762.
51. Zobrist J., Dowdle P.R., Davis J.A., Oremland R.S. Mobilization of arsenite by dissimilatory reduction of adsorbed arsenate. Environmental Science & Technology 2000, 34:4747-4753.