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Barium bioaccumulation by bacterial biofilms and implications for Ba cycling and use of Ba proxies
Martinez-Ruiz, F.; Jroundi, F.; Paytan, A.; Guerra-Tschuschke, I.; Abad, M.d.M.; González-Muñoz, M.T. (2018). Barium bioaccumulation by bacterial biofilms and implications for Ba cycling and use of Ba proxies. Nature Comm. 9(1): 9 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04069-z
In: Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 2041-1723; e-ISSN 2041-1723
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  • Martinez-Ruiz, F.
  • Jroundi, F.
  • Paytan, A.
  • Guerra-Tschuschke, I.
  • Abad, M.d.M.
  • González-Muñoz, M.T.
Abstract
    Ba proxies have been broadly used to reconstruct past oceanic export production. However, the precise mechanisms underlying barite precipitation in undersaturated seawater are not known. The link between bacterial production and particulate Ba in the ocean suggests that bacteria may play a role. Here we show that under experimental conditions marine bacterial biofilms, particularly extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), are capable of bioaccumulating Ba, providing adequate conditions for barite precipitation. An amorphous P-rich phase is formed at the initial stages of Ba bioaccumulation, which evolves into barite crystals. This supports that in high productivity regions where large amounts of organic matter are subjected to bacterial degradation, the abundant EPS would serve to bind the necessary Ba and form nucleation sites leading to barite precipitation. This also provides new insights into barite precipitation and opens an exciting field to explore the role of EPS in mineral precipitation in the ocean.
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