『Abstract
Data from studies of dissimilatory bacterial (108
cells mL-1 of Shewanella putrefaciens strain
CN32, pH 6.8) and ascorbate (10 mM, pH 3.0) reduction of two synthetic
Fe(III) oxide coated sands and three natural Fe(III) oxide-bearing
subsurface materials (all at ca. 10 mmol Fe(III) L-1)
were analyzed in relation to a generalized rate law for mineral
dissolution (Jt/mo=k'(m/mo)γ, where Jt is the rate of dissolution and/or reduction
at time t, mo is the initial mass of oxide,
and m/mo is the unreduced or undissolved
mineral fraction) in order to evaluate changes in the apparent
reactivity of Fe(III) oxides during long-term biological vs. chemical
reduction. The natural Fe(III) oxide assemblages demonstrated
larger changes in reactivity (higher γ values in the generalized
rate law) compared to the synthetic oxides during long-term abiotic
reductive dissolution. No such relationship was evident in the
bacterial reduction experiments, in which temporal changes in
the apparent reactivity of the natural and synthetic oxides were
far greater (5-10 fold higher γ values) than in the abiotic reduction
experiments. Kinetic and thermodynamic considerations indicated
that neither the abundance of electron donor (lactate) nor the
accumulation of aqueous end-products of oxide reduction (Fe(II),
acetate, dissolved inorganic carbon) are likely to have posed
significant limitations on the long-term kinetics of oxide reduction.
Rather, accumulation of biogenic Fe(II) on residual oxide surfaces
appeared to play a dominant role in governing the long-term kinetics
of bacterial crystalline Fe(III) oxide reduction. The experimental
findings together with numerical simulations support a conceptual
model of bacterial Fe(III) oxide reduction kinetics that differs
fundamentally from established models of abiotic Fe(III) oxide
reductive dissolution, and indicate that information on Fe(III)
oxide reactivity gained through abiotic reductive dissolution
techniques cannot be used to predict long-term patterns of reactivity
toward enzymatic reduction at circumneutral pH.』
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
2.1. Oxide phases and characterization
2.2. Bacterial reduction experiments
2.3. Ascorbate reduction experiments
2.4. Thermodynamic calculations
2.5. Numerical simulations
3. Kinetic framework and interpretation
4. Results and discussion
4.1. Ascorbate reduction kinetics
4.2. Bacterial reduction kinetics
4.3. Thermodynamic analysis
4.4. Conceptual model of long-term bacterial reduction kinetics
4.4.1. Surface-associated Fe(II) as a fundamental regulator
4.4.2. Numerical evaluation of the conceptual model
4.5. Quantitative relationships between bacterial and chemical
reduction kinetics
4.5.1. Temporal changes in reactivity
4.5.2. Initial rate correlations
5. Conclusions and implications for modeling natural soils and
sediments
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix(Table A1〜A5)