Lion CONTENTS 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Kinetics of Biological Mn Oxidation 7.3 Trace Metal Adsorption to Biogenic Mn Oxides 7.4 Trace Metal Adsorption to Mixtures of Biogenic Mn Oxides and F
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Manganese Oxides and Their Influence on the Scavenging of Toxic Trace Elements
Yarrow M Nelson and Leonard W Lion
CONTENTS
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Kinetics of Biological Mn Oxidation
7.3 Trace Metal Adsorption to Biogenic Mn Oxides
7.4 Trace Metal Adsorption to Mixtures of Biogenic Mn Oxides and
Fe Oxides
7.5 Role of Mn Oxides in Controlling Trace Metal Adsorption
to Natural Biofilms
7.6 Conclusions Acknowledgments References
7.1 INTRODUCTION
Biological Mn oxidation is an important process in the environment because it not only controls the cycling and bioavailability of Mn itself, but also is likely to exert controls on the cycling and bioavailability of other trace metals, either toxic (Nelson
et al., 1999a) or nutrients (Bartlett, 1988), that strongly bind to sparingly soluble biogenic Mn oxides Biogenic Mn oxides may also play important roles in the abiotic oxidation of complex organic compounds (Sunda and Kieber, 1994) and as terminal electron acceptors in biologically mediated degradation reactions (Nealson and Myers, 1992) Because of the importance of Mn cycling in the environment, a significant amount of research has been devoted to determining the enzymatic pathways responsible for biological oxidation of Mn(II) (Tebo et al., 1997) Also, a L1623_Frame_07.fm Page 169 Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:56 AM
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kinetic model for biological Mn oxidation has recently been developed (Zhang et al., 2002), and the implications of strong trace metal binding by biogenic Mn oxides have been explored through sampling and analysis in aquatic environments (Nelson
et al., 1999a; Dong et al., 2000; Wilson et al., 2001)
The abiotic oxidation of Mn(II) is kinetically inhibited below pH 9 (Morgan and Stumm, 1964; Langen et al., 1997), and therefore Mn oxidation in natural aquatic environments is expected to be predominantly driven by biological processes, either
by direct enzymatically catalyzed oxidation (Ghiorse, 1984) or indirectly by biolog-ically induced microenvironment changes such as a localized pH increase caused
by algae (Aguilar and Nealson, 1994) Biological Mn oxidation has been demon-strated in the field in both freshwater (Nealson et al., 1988) and marine (Tebo and Emerson, 1986; Moffett, 1997) environments Several microorganisms with a dem-onstrated ability to catalyze Mn oxidation have been isolated in pure culture, includ-ing Leptothrix discophora (Ghiorse, 1984), a bacterium isolated from freshwater wetlands; the marine bacterium Bacillus subtilis which forms spores that catalyze
Mn oxidation on their surfaces (Tebo et al., 1988); and the freshwater bacterium
Pseudomonas putida MnB1 (Douka, 1977, 1980) The enzymology and genetics for the biological oxidation of Mn(II) by these model organisms have been reviewed
by Tebo et al (1997)
We focus here on the kinetics of biological Mn oxidation and the reactivity of biogenic Mn oxides Although rates of Mn oxidation have been reported from field and laboratory studies, only recently has a rate law for biologically catalyzed Mn oxidation been derived Similarly, it has long been suspected that biogenic Mn oxides might exhibit greater reactivity than abiotic Mn oxides, but only recently have laboratory studies with pure biogenic Mn oxides demonstrated this high reactivity Finally, we explore the implications of the high surface reactivity of biogenic Mn oxides by describing recent field studies of trace metal adsorption by natural biofilms containing biogenic Mn oxides
7.2 KINETICS OF BIOLOGICAL Mn OXIDATION
When the kinetics of Mn(II) oxidation were first described mathematically, the model was restricted to pH > 9 and ignored biological activity (Morgan and Stumm, 1964; Stumm and Morgan, 1996) Because the abiotic rate of Mn(II) oxidation is extremely slow at circumneutral pH (Langen et al., 1997), the reaction
is unlikely to proceed without biological catalysis, and it is therefore important
to develop a kinetic model applicable to the biologically mediated reaction In natural waters at circumneutral pH, biological Mn oxidation can be orders of magnitude faster than abiotic Mn oxidation (Nealson et al., 1988; Tebo, 1991; Wehrli et al., 1992) Reported rates of biological catalysis of Mn oxidation vary from 65 nM/h in marine environments (Tebo, 1991) to 350 nM/h in freshwater (Tipping, 1984) As expected, the rate of biological Mn oxidation varies with solution conditions as required by the organism and enzyme systems involved
In natural environments a strong dependence of biological Mn oxidation rate on both temperature and pH has been observed (Tebo and Emerson, 1985; Sunda and Huntsman, 1987) Similarly, pure cultures of Leptothrix discophora SS1 L1623_FrameBook.book Page 170 Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:36 AM
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exhibit a strong dependence on environmental conditions, with a maximum rate
of Mn oxidation at pH 7.5 and an optimum temperature of 30°C (Adams and Ghiorse, 1987) The mechanisms of both abiotic and biological Mn oxidation have been reviewed by Tebo et al (1997)
Given the importance of biological Mn oxidation, we have measured Mn oxi-dation rates by the model bacterium Leptothrix discophora SS1 under a range of controlled laboratory conditions and have developed a rate law for biologically mediated Mn(II) oxidation as a function of environmental conditions including temperature, pH, and the concentrations of cells, Mn(II), O2, and Cu L discophora
SS1 (ATCC 43821), a heterotrophic, freshwater proteobacterium, was used to pro-duce biogenic Mn oxides in controlled laboratory bioreactors with a defined growth medium (Zhang et al., 2002) The use of a defined medium allowed for the deter-mination of metal speciation without interference from buffers that could complex
Mn (Table 7.1) The observed Mn oxidation rate was found to be directly proportional
to cell and O2 concentrations and exhibited a pH optimum of 7.5 and temperature optimum of 30°C Mn oxidation kinetics by L discophora SS1 obeyed Michae-lis–Menten enzyme kinetics with respect to Mn(II) concentration (Figure 7.1) This result agrees with earlier field experiments that observed Michaelis–Menten kinetics for Mn oxidation in freshwater environments (Tebo and Emerson, 1986; Sunda and
TABLE 7.1 Manganese and Copper Speciation in MMS Medium ([Mn(II)] = 50
µµµµM, [Cu(II)] = 0.1
µµµµM, P CO2 = 10 –3.5 atm, T = 25
°°°°C
% of Total Metal as Each Species
pH
Mn Species
Mn 2+ 78.5 78.5 78.4 78.2 35.6 3.6
Rhodochrosite[MnCO 3 (s)] 0 0 0 0 48.8 95.8
Cu Species
Cu(OH) 2 aq 1.7 14.6 59.4 88.4 N/A N/A
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Huntsman, 1987; Moffett, 1994) At the optimum pH and temperature, the maximum oxidation rate (vmax) was 0.0059 µmol Mn(II)/min-mg cell (at 25°C, pH = 7.5, and
a dissolved oxygen concentration of 8.05 mg/l) (Zhang et al., 2002) The half-velocity coefficient (Ks) for Mn oxidation by L discophora in the controlled biore-actors was 5.7 µmol Mn(II)/l This value of Ks is similar to that determined previously under less-controlled conditions using buffers to regulate pH (Adams and Ghiorse, 1987)
Recent investigations of the molecular biology of Mn-oxidizing bacteria have implicated copper-containing enzymes in Mn(II) oxidation Multi-copper oxidase enzymes have been reported to mediate bacterial Mn oxidation for Pseudomonas putida, Bacillus SG1 spores and L discophora (Brouwers et al., 2000a,b) Copper addition increased Mn(II) oxidation rates of P putida by a factor of five (Brouwers
et al., 2000a,b), and also increased Mn oxidation rates by spores of Bacillus SG1 (VanWaasbergen et al., 1996) Copper stimulated the activity of supernatant obtained from stationary phase suspensions of L discophora SS1 when the cells were grown
in the presence of Cu; however, Cu did not stimulate Mn(II) oxidation when added directly to the spent medium supernatant subsequent to growth of the bacterium (Brouwers et al., 2000a,b) Our research examined the effect of copper concentration
on Mn oxidation rates by L discophora SS1 using the controlled bioreactor and defined medium described above In the bioreactor experiments copper inhibited cell growth rate and yield at Cu concentrations as low as 0.02 µM (Figure 7.2), but enhanced Mn(II) oxidation rates (Table 7.2) (Zhang et al., 2002)
FIGURE 7.1 Michaelis–Menten oxidation kinetics for Mn(II) at T = 25 °°°° C, pH = 7.5, O2 = 8.05 mg/l and zero added Cu (Reprinted from Zhang, J et al., Geochim Cosmochim Acta,
65, 773, copyright 2002 With permission from Elsevier Science.)
0 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.006
Mn oxidation rate ( m mol/
Replicate 1 Replicate 2 Replicate 3
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Using the controlled bioreactor experiments described above, we developed a general rate law for biological Mn oxidation by L discophora that shows the mathematical dependence on cell concentration, Mn concentration, pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration, and copper concentration (Zhang et al., 2002)
FIGURE 7.2 Effect of added Cu on L discophora SS1 growth curves at pH = 7.5, T = 25 °°°° C, and O2 = 8.05 mg/l (Reprinted from Zhang, J et al., Geochim Cosmochim Acta, 65, 773, copyright 2002 With permission from Elsevier Science.)
TABLE 7.2 Effect of Cu on L discophora SS-1 Mn Oxidizing Activity a
[Cu(II)]
µµµµM
Specific Mn(II) Oxidizing Activity (per Equal Cell Weight), %
a The activity of a culture without added Cu(II) are defined
as 100%.
Source: Reprinted from Zhang, J et al., Geochim Cosmochim.
Acta, 65, 773, copyright 2002 With permission from Elsevier Science.)
0 0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
Time (min)
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where
[X] is cell concentration, mg/l
[O 2 ] is dissolved oxygen concentration, mg/l
[Cu] is total dissolved copper concentration, µmol/l
k = 0.0059 µmol Mn(II)/(mg cell• min)
K S = 5.7 µmol Mn(II)/l
= 1/8.05 = 0.124/(mg/l) ([O2] = 8.05 mg/l at 25°C
E a = 22.9 kcal/(g cell• mole)
A = 2.3×1014
K 1 = 3.05×10–8
K 2 = 2.46×10–8
k pH = 4.52
k C = 8.8/(µmol Cu/l)
At 25°C, pH = 7.5, [O2] = 8.05 mg/l and zero added copper (i.e., Cu < 5nM), the
above rate law for Mn(II) oxidation simplifies to the following Michaelis–Menten
expression for biological Mn oxidation rate:
It is interesting to compare the expected rates of Mn oxidation via abiotic
mechanisms with the rates expected from the biological kinetic rate law described
above Abiotic Mn oxidation rates at pH 8.03 were measured in seawater by von
Langen et al (1997) who reported a first-order rate constant of 1.1×10–6 (normalized
for PO2 = 1 atm and T = 25°C) At this pH and for similar conditions, the cell
concentration of L discophora required to obtain the same rate would be only 0.30
µg/l (Zhang et al., 2002) (i.e., approximately 3×105 cells/l) It is reasonable to assume
that cell populations of Mn-oxidizing bacteria far greater than this would be possible
in natural environments Even smaller population sizes would be required to match
abiotic rates (if they could be measured) at lower pH values
It should be noted that the kinetic rate law described above is quantitatively
applicable only to the strain of L discophora used in the experiments described
Different Mn-oxidizing bacteria and even different stains of L discophora would
be expected to exhibit different rates of catalysis of Mn oxidation For example,
recent investigations in a wetland in New York State found many different genetic
strains of Leptothrix, each exhibiting different rates of catalysis of Mn oxidation
(Verity, 2001) However, the general form of the rate law could be expected to be
similar for different species of Mn oxidizers
The rate law for biological Mn oxidation described above could potentially be
incorporated into environmental models to describe the cycling of Mn in natural
+
−
d Mn II
dt
k X Mn II
K Mn II k O Ae
k
H K K H k Cu II
S
o
c
[ ( )] [ ][ ( )]
[ ( )]( [ ])( ) [ ] / / [ ] ( [ ( )])
/
2 2
1 2
k O
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d Mn II dt
kX Mn II
K S Mn II
[ ( )]
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environments and the associated fate of other trace metals or of organic compounds
that are oxidized by reaction with biogenic Mn oxides However, successful use of
these models will require a better understanding of the population size of Mn
oxidizers in natural aquatic environments
7.3 TRACE METAL ADSORPTION TO BIOGENIC
Mn OXIDES
The environmental fate and behavior of toxic transition metals are governed by
interactive biogeochemical processes, such as adsorption, complexation and multiple
biological interactions (Krauskopf, 1956; Jenne, 1968; Turekian, 1977; Vuceta and
Morgan, 1978; Westall et al., 1995; Nelson et al., 1999a) Microorganisms have the
potential to adsorb significant concentrations of trace metals, and many bacteria
produce extracellular polymers that have well-established metal binding properties
(Lion et al., 1988; Pradhan and Levine, 1992; Herman et al., 1995; Nelson et al.,
1995) However, depending on the trace metal of interest, adsorption by Fe and Mn
oxides can be far greater than that by organic materials (Lion et al., 1982) While
the role of iron oxides in metal scavenging has received considerable attention
(Dzombak and Morel, 1990), and trace metal adsorption by Mn oxide minerals
(presumably of abiotic origin) has been studied (Catts and Langmuir, 1986), far less
is known about the properties of biogenic Mn oxides and their role as metal
scav-enging agents Trace metal adsorption by biogenic Mn oxides is relevant because
biological Mn oxidation is expected to dominate in circumneutral environments (see
above) Here we describe some recent measurements of trace metal binding to
biogenic Mn oxides prepared under controlled laboratory conditions, as well as to
defined mixtures of Fe oxides and biogenic Mn oxides
Biologically oxidized Mn oxides are generally believed to be amorphous or
poorly crystalline and of mixed oxidation state (Hem and Lind, 1983; Murray et al.,
1985; Adams and Ghiorse, 1988; Wehrli et al., 1992; Mandernack et al., 1995;
Mandernack et al., 1995) Investigations using x-ray absorption fine structure
(XAFS) have begun to elucidate the mineralogy of microcrystalline regions in Mn
oxides and Mn oxyhydroxides (Manceau and Combes, 1988; Friedl et al., 1997)
Co, Zn, Ce, and trivalent lanthanides have been reported to be incorporated into
biogenic Mn oxides via the same enzymatic pathways as Mn oxidation (Moffett and
Ho, 1995), but adsorption of these elements to already-formed Mn oxides was not
described He and Tebo (1998) measured the surface area of Mn-oxidizing Bacillus
SG1 spores and Cu adsorption to these spores, but not to the Mn oxides formed by
the spores Trace metal adsorption to natural materials containing Mn oxides and
Fe oxides has been measured (Tessier et al., 1996), but the specific role of Mn oxides
in these experiments is difficult to isolate because the extracted Mn oxides were
likely mixed with Fe oxides and residual organic material from the field
The first measurement of trace metal adsorption to laboratory-prepared biogenic
Mn oxides was reported by Nelson et al (1999b) In these experiments both Mn
oxidation and trace metal adsorption were carried out under controlled conditions
with L discophora grown in a defined medium The use of pH controllers in these
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experiments eliminated the need for buffers that could potentially complex with
either Mn ions or adsorbing cations Also, competing trace metals were excluded
during both production of Mn oxides and adsorption measurements (except for 0.1
µM Fe, which was necessary for Mn oxidation) (Nelson et al., 1999b) Under these
controlled laboratory conditions at pH 6.0 and 25°C, Pb adsorption by L discophora
cells with biogenic Mn oxide coatings was two orders of magnitude greater than Pb
adsorption by cells without Mn (Figure 7.3) (Nelson et al., 1999b) This result was
expected because of the known affinity of Pb for metal oxides compared to organic
material Even more interesting was the comparison between Pb adsorption by the
biogenic Mn oxide and abiotically prepared Mn oxides Adsorption isotherms at pH
6.0, I = 0.05 M, and T = 25°C show that the biogenic Mn oxide exhibited five times
the adsorption capacity of a freshly precipitated abiotic Mn oxide, and a much steeper
adsorption isotherm (Figure 7.4) (Nelson et al., 1999b) The steep isotherm is
important because it indicates that the difference between the adsorption of the
biogenic Mn oxide and the abiotic Mn oxide is even more significant at low Pb
concentrations as would be encountered in natural aquatic environments For
com-parison, Pb adsorption of the biogenic Mn oxide is several orders of magnitude
greater than that of abiotic pyrolusite Mn oxide minerals and more than an order of
magnitude greater than that of colloidal Fe oxyhydroxide under the same conditions
(Figure 7.5) (Nelson et al., 1999b) The global abundance of Mn is less than Fe and
thus concentration of iron oxides is expected to exceed that of Mn oxides in many
natural aquatic systems However, the enhanced reactivity of Mn oxides with respect
FIGURE 7.3 Effect of biogenic Mn oxide deposits on Pb adsorption by L discophora cells
at pH 6.0 and 25 °C Cell concentration = 63 mg/l, Mn loading = 0.8 mmol/g cells (From
Nelson, Y.M et al., Appl Environ Microbiol., 65, 175, 1999b With permission.)
1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 1
1 10 100 1000 10000
Cells only Cells with Mn oxide
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prepared Mn oxide (From Nelson, Y.M et al., Appl Environ Microbiol., 65, 175, 1999b.
With permission.)
FIGURE 7.5 Pb adsorption of biogenic Mn oxide compared to that of colloidal Fe
oxyhy-droxide and abiotic Mn oxide minerals (pyrolusite) (From Nelson, Y.M et al., Appl Environ.
Microbiol., 65, 175, 1999b With permission.)
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
Biogenic Mn oxide
Fresh abiotic Mn oxide
0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000 10000
Equilibrium Lead Concentration ( µM)
Colloidal Fe Oxide Abiotic MnO 2 ppt.
Mn oxidized by Leptothrix discophora SS-1
Granular MnO 2 (Fisher) Powdered MnO 2 (ICN)
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The biogenic Mn oxides formed under the controlled conditions described above were determined to be amorphous by x-ray diffraction analysis, with very small peaks matching the spectra of ramsdellite, suggesting a partially orthorhombic structure (Nelson et al., 2001) (Figure 7.6) The specific surface area of the biogenic Mn oxide was 220 m2/g, and was significantly greater than that of the other Mn oxides tested (Table 7.3).The observed Pb adsorption correlated with specific surface area, although the ratio of Pb adsorption Γmax to surface area was significantly greater for the biogenic
Mn oxide and the abiotic Mn oxide than for the pyrolusite Mn oxides (Table 7.3)
FIGURE 7.6 X-ray diffraction pattern of biogenic Mn oxide produced by L discophora
prepared at pH 7.5 Peaks corresponding to polyhydroxybutyrate are labeled PHB, and the
peak corresponding to ramsdellite is labeled accordingly
TABLE 7.3
Specific surface area and Pb adsorption capacity of biogenic Mn oxide, fresh abiotic Mn oxide precipitate and pyrolusite minerals.
Mn Oxide
BET Surface Area,
( µmol Pb/mmol Mn)
( µmol-m 2 /mmol-g)
Fresh abiotic Mn
oxide
Pyrolusite (powdered) 4.7 1.2 0.26
Pyrolusite (granular) 0.048 0.031 0.69
Source: From Nelson, Y.M et al., Appl Environ Microbiol., 65, 175, 1999b With permission.
2-Theta (degrees)
CPS
189
175
161
147
133
119
105
91
77
63
49
35
21
7
10.0 14.0 18.0 22.0 26.0 30.0 34.0 38.0 42.0 46.0 50.0 54.0 58.0
Deg.
2-Theta (degrees)
PHB
PHB
Ramsdellite