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      Proton and cadmium adsorption by the archaeon Thermococcus zilligii: Generalising the contrast between thermophiles and mesophiles as sorbents

      Daughney, Christopher J.; Hetzer, Adrian; Heinrich, Hannah T. M.; Burnett, Peta-Gaye G.; Weerts, Marjolein; Morgan, Hugh W.; Bremer, Phil J.; McQuillan, A. James
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      Doughney, C. J., Hetzer, A., Heinrich, H. T. M., Burnett, P.-G. G., Weerts, M., Morgan, H. W., ..., McQuillan, A. J. (2010). Proton and cadmium adsorption by the archaeon Thermococcus zilligii: Generalising the contrast between thermophiles and mesophiles as sorbents. Chemical Geology.
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      Adsorption by microorganisms can play a significant role in the fate and transport of metals in natural systems. Surface complexation models (SCMs) have been applied extensively to describe metal adsorption by mesophilic bacteria, and several recent studies have extended this framework to thermophilic bacteria. We conduct acid-base titrations and batch experiments to characterise proton and Cd adsorption onto the thermophilic archaeon Thermococcus zilligii. The experimental data and the derived SCMs indicate that the archaeon displays significantly lower overall sorption site density compared to previously studied thermophilic bacteria such Anoxybacillus flavithermus, Geobacillus stearothermophilus, G. thermocatenulatus, and Thermus thermophilus. The thermophilic bacteria and archaea display lower sorption site densities than the mesophilic microorganisms that have been studied to date, which points to a general pattern of total concentration of cell wall adsorption sites per unit biomass being inversely correlated to growth temperature.
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      2010
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      Journal Article
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      Elsevier B.V.
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      This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: Chemical Geology. © 2010 Elsevier B. V.
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