Issue 99, 2016, Issue in Progress

Metal removal and reduction potential of an exopolysaccharide produced by Arctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. PAMC 28620

Abstract

An exopolysaccharide (EPS) was produced from psychrotrophic Arctic glacier fore-field soil bacterium Pseudomonas sp. PAMC 28620 using glycerol enriched medium and the maximum productivity 7.24 ± 0.31 g L−1 of EPS was obtained after 168 h of fermentation. The EPS was purified and analysed by HPLC, GC-MS, FT-IR, 1H and 13C NMR. The EPS obtained from Arctic strain PAMC 28620 exhibits a distinctive structural composition and the constituent sugar monomers are rhamnose, galactose, glucose, fucose, mannose and ribose. The purified EPS has shown excellent flocculating and emulsification capacities with promising biotechnological and ecological implications. From the metal removal experiments, the EPS exhibited remarkable metal adsorption (99%) potential adopting the order Fe2+ > Cu2+ > Mg2+ > Zn2+ > Mn2+ > Ca2+. FE-SEM combined with EDX analysis has shown that the metal ions were complexed or immobilized onto the EPS matrix and further reduced to nanoparticles (150–950 nm). This study is significant in terms of metal removal and reduction potential of Arctic bacterial EPS and the possible ecological roles of the EPS in Arctic environment.

Graphical abstract: Metal removal and reduction potential of an exopolysaccharide produced by Arctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. PAMC 28620

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Jul 2016
Accepted
29 Sep 2016
First published
05 Oct 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 96870-96881

Metal removal and reduction potential of an exopolysaccharide produced by Arctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. PAMC 28620

G. Sathiyanarayanan, S. K. Bhatia, H. J. Kim, J. Kim, J. Jeon, Y. Kim, S. Park, S. H. Lee, Y. K. Lee and Y. Yang, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 96870 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA17450G

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