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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2004, p. 3091-3095, Vol. 70, No. 5
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.3091-3095.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Vanadium Respiration by Geobacter metallireducens: Novel Strategy for In Situ Removal of Vanadium from Groundwater

Irene Ortiz-Bernad,* Robert T. Anderson, Helen A. Vrionis, and Derek R. Lovley

Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

Received 29 October 2003/ Accepted 4 February 2004

Vanadium can be an important contaminant in groundwaters impacted by mining activities. In order to determine if microorganisms of the Geobacteraceae, the predominant dissimilatory metal reducers in many subsurface environments, were capable of reducing vanadium(V), Geobacter metallireducens was inoculated into a medium in which acetate was the electron donor and vanadium(V) was the sole electron acceptor. Reduction of vanadium(V) resulted in the production of vanadium(IV), which subsequently precipitated. Reduction of vanadium(V) was associated with cell growth with a generation time of 15 h. No vanadium(V) was reduced and no precipitate was formed in heat-killed or abiotic controls. Acetate was the most effective of all the electron donors evaluated. When acetate was injected into the subsurface to enhance the growth and activity of Geobacteraceae in an aquifer contaminated with uranium and vanadium, vanadium was removed from the groundwater even more effectively than uranium. These studies demonstrate that G. metallireducens can grow via vanadium(V) respiration and that stimulating the activity of Geobacteraceae, and hence vanadium(V) reduction, can be an effective strategy for in situ immobilization of vanadium in contaminated subsurface environments.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Microbiology, Morrill Science Center IVN, Amherst, MA 01003. Phone: (413) 545-6796. Fax: (413) 545-1578. E-mail: iortiz{at}microbio.umass.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2004, p. 3091-3095, Vol. 70, No. 5
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.3091-3095.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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