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Microbial reduction of technetium by Escherichia coli and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans: enhancement via the use of high-activity strains and effect of process parameters.

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:Escherichia coli and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans reduce Tc(VII) (TcO(4)(-)) with formate or hydrogen as electron donors. The reaction is catalyzed by the hydrogenase component of the formate hydrogenlyase complex (FHL) of E. coli and is associated with a periplasmic hydrogenase activity in D. desulfuricans. Tc(VII) reduction in E. coli by H(2) and formate was either inhibited or repressed by 10 mM nitrate. By contrast, Tc(VII) reduction catalyzed by D. desulfuricans was less sensitive to nitrate when formate was the electron donor, and unaffected by 10 mM or 100 mM nitrate when H(2) was the electron donor. The optimum pH for Tc(VII) reduction by both organisms was 5.5 and the optimum temperature was 40 degrees C and 20 degrees C for E. coli and D. desulfuricans, respectively. Both strains had an apparent K(m) for Tc(VII) of 0.5 mM, but Tc(VII) was removed from a solution of 300 nM TcO(4)(-) within 30 h by D. desulfuricans at the expense of H(2). The greater bioprocess potential of D. desulfuricans was shown also by the K(s) for formate (>25 mM and 0.5 mM for E. coli and D. desulfuricans, respectively), attributable to the more accessible, periplasmic localization of the enzyme in the latter. The relative rates of Tc(VII) reduction for E. coli and D. desulfuricans (with H(2)) were 12.5 and 800 micromol Tc(VII) reduced/g biomass/h, but the use of an E. coli HycA mutant (which upregulates FHL activities by approx. 50%) had a similarly enhancing effect on the rate of Tc reduction. The more rapid reduction of Tc(VII) by D. desulfuricans compared with the E. coli strains was also shown using cells immobilized in a hollow-fiber reactor, in which the flow residence times sustaining steady-state removal of 80% of the radionuclide were 24.3 h for the wild-type E. coli, 4.25 h for the upregulated mutant, and 1.5 h for D. desulfuricans.

journal_name

Biotechnol Bioeng

journal_title

Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors

Lloyd JR,Thomas GH,Finlay JA,Cole JA,Macaskie LE

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-01-01 00:00:00

pages

122-30

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0006-3592

issn

1097-0290

pii

10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(1999)66:2<122::AID-BIT5>3.

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Microbial reduction of technetium by Escherichia coli and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans: enhancement via the use of high-activity strains and effect of process parameters.