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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2003, p. 3636-3639, Vol. 69, No. 6
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3636-3639.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Microbial Reduction and Precipitation of Vanadium by Shewanella oneidensis

W. Carpentier,1 K. Sandra,1 I. De Smet,2 A. Brigé,1 L. De Smet,1 and J. Van Beeumen1*

Laboratory for Protein Biochemistry and Protein Engineering,1 Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium2

Received 9 September 2002/ Accepted 24 February 2003

Shewanella oneidensis couples anaerobic oxidation of lactate, formate, and pyruvate to the reduction of vanadium pentoxide (VV). The bacterium reduces VV (vanadate ion) to VIV (vanadyl ion) in an anaerobic atmosphere. The resulting vanadyl ion precipitates as a VIV-containing solid.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory for Protein Biochemistry and Protein Engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Phone: 32 9 264 5109. Fax: 32 9 264 5338. E-mail: jozef.vanbeeumen{at}rug.ac.be.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2003, p. 3636-3639, Vol. 69, No. 6
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3636-3639.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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