Uranium isotopic fractionation factors during U(VI) reduction by bacterial isolates
Uranium isotopic fractionation factors during U(VI) reduction by bacterial isolates
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DOI:
10.1016/j.gca.2014.02.041
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2014-07-01
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5
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Loeffler, Frank E.
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Basu, Anirban;Sanford, Robert A.;Loeffler, Frank E.
We experimentally determined the magnitude of uranium isotopic fractionation induced by U(VI) reduction by metal reducing bacterial isolates. Our results indicate that microbial U(VI) reduction induces isotopic fractionation; heavier isotopes (i.e., U-238) partition into the solid U(IV) products. The magnitudes of isotopic fractionation (expressed as epsilon = 1000 parts per thousand * (alpha-1)) for U-238/U-235 were 0.68 parts per thousand +/- 0.05 parts per thousand and 0.99 parts per thousand +/- 0.12 parts per thousand for Geobacter sulfurreducens strain PCA and strain IFRC-N, respectively. The epsilon values for Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans strain FRC-W, strain FRC-R5, a novel Shewanella isolate, and Desulfitobacterium sp. strain Viet1 were 0.72 parts per thousand +/- 0.15 parts per thousand, 0.99 parts per thousand +/- 0.12 parts per thousand, 0.96 parts per thousand +/- 0.16 parts per thousand and 0.86 parts per thousand +/- 0.06 parts per thousand, respectively. Our results show that the maximum epsilon values of similar to 1.0 parts per thousand were obtained with low biomass (similar to 10(7) cells/mL) and low electron donor concentrations (similar to 500 mu M). These results provide an initial assessment of U-238/U-235 shifts induced by microbially-mediated U(VI) reduction, which is needed as U-238/U-235 data are increasingly applied as redox indicators in various geochemical settings. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.