期刊
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
卷 309, 期 -, 页码 202-209出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.02.011
关键词
Lawsone; Nanoprecipitates; Photosynthetic bacteria; Rhodobacter capsulatus; Tellurite
资金
- University of Bologna (Grant RFO)
- National Flagship Project NANOMAX N-CHEM
The toxic oxyanion tellurite (TeO32-) is acquired by cells of Rhodobacter capsulatus grown anaerobically in the light, via acetate permease ActP2 and then reduced to Te-0 in the cytoplasm as needle-like black precipitates. Interestingly, photosynthetic cultures of R. capsulatus can also generate Te-0 nanoprecipitates (TeNPs) outside the cells upon addition of the redox mediator lawsone (2-hydroxy-1,4-naphtoquinone). TeNPs generation kinetics were monitored to define the optimal conditions to produce TeNPs as a function of various carbon sources and lawsone concentration. We report that growing cultures over a 10 days period with daily additions of 1 mM tellurite led to the accumulation in the growth medium of TeNPs with dimensions from 200 up to 600-700 nm in length as determined by atomic force microscopy (AFM). This result suggests that nucleation of TeNPs takes place over the entire cell growth period although the addition of new tellurium Te-0 to pre-formed TeNPs is the main strategy used by R. capsulatus to generate TeNPs outside the cells. Finally, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier transform infrared (Fr-IR) analysis of TeNPs indicate they are coated with an organic material which keeps the particles in solution in aqueous solvents. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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