Biotransformation of Two-Line Silica-Ferrihydrite by a Dissimilatory Fe(III)-Reducing Bacterium: Formation of Carbonate Green Rust in the Presence of Phosphate
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln US Department of Energy Publications U.S. Department of Energy 2004 Biotransformation of two-line silica-ferrihydrite by a dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium: Formation of carbonate green rust in the presence of phosphate Ravi K. Kukkadapu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, [email protected] John M. Zachara Pacific Northwest National Laboratory James K. Fredrickson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, [email protected] David W. Kennedy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdoepub Part of the Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering Commons Kukkadapu, Ravi K.; Zachara, John M.; Fredrickson, James K.; and Kennedy, David W., "Biotransformation of two-line silica-ferrihydrite by a dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium: Formation of carbonate green rust in the presence of phosphate" (2004). US Department of Energy Publications. 157. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdoepub/157 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the U.S. Department of Energy at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in US Department of Energy Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 68, No. 13, pp. 2799–2814, 2004 Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd Pergamon Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/04 $30.00 ϩ .00 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2003.12.024 Biotransformation of two-line silica-ferrihydrite by a dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium: Formation of carbonate green rust in the presence of phosphate RAVI K. KUKKADAPU,* JOHN M. ZACHARA,JAMES K. FREDRICKSON, and DAVID W. KENNEDY Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA (Received November 1, 2002; accepted in revised form December 22, 2003) Abstract—The reductive biotransformation of two Si-ferrihydrite coprecipitates (1 and 5 mole % Si) by Shewanella putrefaciens, strain CN32, was investigated in 1,4-piperazinediethanesulfonic acid-buffered media (pH ϳ7) with lactate as the electron donor. Anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate, an electron shuttle, was present in the 3Ϫ media. Experiments were performed without and with PO4 (P) (1 to 20 mmol/L) in media containing 50 mmol/L 4Ϫ Fe. Our objectives were to define the combined effects of SiO4 (Si) and P on the bioreducibility and biominer- alization of ferrihydrites under anoxic conditions. Iron reduction was measured as a function of time, solids were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction and Mo¨ssbauer spectroscopy, and aqueous solutions were analyzed for Si, P, ClϪ and inorganic carbon. Both of the ferrihydrites were rapidly reduced regardless of the Si and P content. Si concentration had no effect on the reduction rate or mineralization products. Magnetite was formed in the 2Ϫ II III xϩ 2Ϫ absence of P whereas carbonate green rust GR(CO3 ) ([Fe (6Ϫx)Fe x(OH)12] (CO3 )0.5x · yH2O) and vivianite 2Ϫ [Fe3(PO4)2 ·8H2O], were formed when P was present. GR(CO3 ) dominated as a mineral product in samples with Ͻ 2Ϫ 4 mmol/L P. The Fe(II)/Fe(III) ratio of GR(CO3 ) varied with P concentration; the ratio was 2 in 1 mmol/L P and approached 1 with 4- and 10 mmol/L P. Green rust appeared to form by solid-state transformation of ferrihydrite. Media P and Si concentration dictated the mechanism of transformation. In the 1 mole % Si coprecipitate with 1 mmol/L P, an intermediate Fe(II)/Fe(III) phase with structural Fe(II) slowly transformed to GR with time. In contrast, when ferrihydrite contained more Si (5 mole %) and/or contained higher P (4 mmol/L), sorbed Fe(II) and residual ferrihydrite together transformed to GR. Despite similar chemistries, P was shown to have a profound effect on extent of ferrihydrite reduction and biotransformations while that of Si was minimal. Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd 1. INTRODUCTION under specific conditions (Fredrickson et al., 1998). Fe(II) flux rate and magnitude at the ferrihydrite surface and the presence Green rusts (GRs) are mixed valence, layered Fe(II)/Fe(III)- of sorbed/coprecipitated ions are important factors influencing hydroxides that belong to the sjo¨grenite-pyroaurite mineral the nature of the biomineralization products (Zachara et al., class (Taylor, 1973). These compounds have an ideal compo- 2002). Medium composition and electron donor and acceptor sition of [FeII FeIII (OH) ]xϩ[(Ax/n)·yH O]xϪ, where Ax/n (6Ϫx) x 12 2 concentrations are also important. In a 1,4-piperazinediethane- is an n-valent interlayer anion (e.g., ClϪ,CO2Ϫ,PO3Ϫ,SO2Ϫ). 3 4 4 sulfonic acid (PIPES)-buffered medium with 4 mmol/L P (a They are found in hydromorphic soils and are potential con- ligand with strong affinity for ferrihydrite surfaces) and 0.1 taminant reductants, anion exchangers, and metal cation sor- mmol/L anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate (AQDS) (an electron bents in anoxic soils and sediments (Hansen et al., 1996; Ϫ shuttle), a carbonate GR [GR(CO2 ] in association with vivi- Myneni et al., 1997; Erbs et al., 1999; Lee et al., 2000; Loyaux- 3 anite was the primary mineral product formed in an anoxic Lawniczak et al., 2000; Refait et al., 2000; Williams and suspension with S. putrefaciens (CN32) (Fredrickson et al., Scherer, 2001; Bond and Fendorf, 2003). Recently, a bluish- Ϫ 1998). A phosphate GR [GR(PO3 ], however, was identified as gray colored GR mineral termed fougerite with Fe(II)/Fe(III) of 4 a major product of the bioreduction of ferrihydrite by S. putre- ϳ1 was isolated from forest soils of Brittany (Trolard et al., ϩ faciens in similar medium (with and without dissolved Ni2 ) 1997). Various synthetic procedures have been developed for but without AQDS (Parmar et al., 2001). GR that are believed to mimic those operative in the environ- Although, GR has been observed as a product in the labo- ment including: i) the controlled oxidation of ferrous hydroxide Ϫ 2Ϫ 2Ϫ ratory transformation of Fe(III) oxides by iron reducing bacte- in the presence of Cl ,SO4 , and CO3 (Ge´nin et al., 1998), ϩ ria, the specific range of chemical and biologic conditions that and ii) the solid-state transformation of ferrihydrite by Fe2 (aq) promote GR formation has not been established. Two out of (Mann et al., 1989; Hansen et al., 1994). three reports of biogenic GR formation (Fredrickson et al., Dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacteria (DIRB) catalyze the 1998; Parmar et al., 2001) observed that P was requisite for its reduction of Fe(III) to Fe(II) in anoxic soils, sediments, and genesis. However, the specific mechanistic role of P in promot- groundwater (Lovley and Phillips, 1986). A variety of biomin- ing GR formation is unknown. Under identical conditions, but eralization products result from the interaction of DIRB with poorly crystalline two-line ferrihydrite, including green rusts in the absence of P, magnetite is the predominant bacterial transformation product of ferrihydrite (Fredrickson et al., 1998). Magnetite is thermodynamically more stable than GR * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed, at Pacific (Ge´nin et al., 1998), but P apparently impedes magnetite for- Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, MSIN K8-96, Richland, mation (Couling and Mann, 1985; Fredrickson et al., 1998). In WA 99352 ([email protected]). contrast, GR was found as a primary anoxic transformation 2799 2800 R. K. Kukkadapu et al. product of lepidocrocite by S. putrefaciens strain CIP in the dissolved in concentrated HCl and analyzed for Si and Fe by induc- absence of P (Ona-Nguema et al., 2002). This latter study used tively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS, Hewlett Packard ϩ a different buffer (bicarbonate), electron donor (formate), and 4500). The ICP-determined Si/(Si Fe) mole fractions of the two Si-ferrihydrites respectively were 0.013 and 0.048. These will be re- higher organism concentrations (10x) than the former studies. ferred to as 0.01- and 0.05-Si-ferrihydrites. Whether one of these factors or the organism itself was most influential in GR formation was not established. Lepidocrocite 2.2. Bacteria and Media is the primary oxidation product of GR (Karim, 1986), imply- Anoxic suspensions of S. putrefaciens strain CN32 were prepared ing structural or kinetic relationships between the two mineral and suspended in a 30 mmol/L PIPES buffered-medium (pH ϳ7) as phases. The only common requirement noted above in the reported previously (Fredrickson et al., 2001). Media components biogenesis of GR from ferrihydrite appears to be the presence included (in mmol/L): lactate, 27 (electron donor); AQDS, 0.09 (elec- of excess electron donor. tron shuttle); NH4Cl, 25.5; KCl, 1.2; CaCl20·8H2O, 0.7; and varying amounts of phosphate (NaH PO ), 0 or 1, 4, 10, and 20. The medium Natural ferrihydrites contain Si (up to 9 mole %), and sig- 2 4 composition was similar to our previous study (Fredrickson et al., nificant amounts of organic matter (Carlson and Schwertmann, 1998) where biogenic GR was observed, except that the current media 1981; Fox, 1989; Fortin et al., 1993; Tessier et al., 1996; Perret lacked trace minerals that included sulfate salts. Sulfate, a potential et al., 2000). Coreacted Si affects the recrystallization of ferri- anion for GR, was excluded to prevent sulfate-GR formation. hydrite to crystalline oxides such as goethite and hematite and Both 0.01- and 0.05-Si-ferrihydrites (ϳ50 mmol/L Fe), which were “aged” for 1 and 3 months, were incubated in the PIPES buffered- may influence its reductive transformation by DIRB. Silicate media (30 mmol/L) containing 2–4 ϫ 108 cells/mL. The headspace anions, like P, have a strong affinity for ferrihydrite (Carlson atmosphere of the tubes was O2-free N2.