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Xu J, Chen C, Hu X, Chen D, Bland G, Wielinski J, Kaegi R, Lin D, Lowry GV. Particle-Scale Understanding of Arsenic Interactions with Sulfidized Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron and Their Impacts on Dehalogenation Reactivity. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:21917-21926. [PMID: 38091483 PMCID: PMC10753793 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c08635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/27/2023]
Abstract
Co-occurrence of organic contaminants and arsenic oxoanions occurs often at polluted groundwater sites, but the effect of arsenite on the reactivity of sulfidized nanoscale zerovalent iron (SNZVI) used to remediate groundwater has not been evaluated. Here, we study the interaction of arsenite [As(III)] with SNZVI at the individual-particle scale to better understand the impacts on the SNZVI properties and reactivity. Surface and intraparticle accumulation of As was observed on hydrophilic FeS-Fe0 and hydrophobic FeS2-Fe0 particles, respectively. X-ray absorption spectroscopy indicated the presence of realgar-like As-S and elemental As0 species at low and high As/Fe concentration ratios, respectively. Single-particle inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis identified As-containing particles both with and without Fe. The probability of finding As-containing particles without Fe increased with the S-induced hydrophobicity of SNZVI. The interactions of SNZVI materials with coexisting arsenite inhibited their reactivity with water (∼5.8-230.7-fold), trichloroethylene (∼3.6-67.5-fold), and florfenicol (∼1.1-5.9-fold). However, the overall selectivity toward trichloroethylene and florfenicol relative to water was improved (up to 9.0-fold) because the surface-associated As increased the SNZVI hydrophobicity. These results indicate that reactions of SNZVI with arsenite can remove As from groundwater and improve the properties of SNZVI for dehalogenation selectivity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jiang Xu
- Zhejiang
Provincial Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control,
Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Zhejiang
Provincial Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control,
Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Zhejiang
Provincial Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control,
Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Zhejiang
Provincial Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control,
Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Eawag,
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
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- Zhejiang
Provincial Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control,
Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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Arcadi E, Rastelli E, Tangherlini M, Rizzo C, Mancuso M, Sanfilippo M, Esposito V, Andaloro F, Romeo T. Shallow-Water Hydrothermal Vents as Natural Accelerators of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance in Marine Coastal Areas. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10020479. [PMID: 35208933 PMCID: PMC8877554 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10020479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Environmental contamination by heavy metals (HMs) poses several indirect risks to human health, including the co-spreading of genetic traits conferring resistance to both HMs and antibiotics among micro-organisms. Microbial antibiotic resistance (AR) acquisition is enhanced at sites anthropogenically polluted by HMs, as well as in remote systems naturally enriched in HMs, such as hydrothermal vents in the deep sea. However, to date, the possible role of hydrothermal vents at shallower water depths as hot spots of microbial AR gain and spreading has not been tested, despite the higher potential risks associated with the closer vicinity of such ecosystems to coasts and human activities. In this work, we collected waters and sediments at the Panarea shallow-water hydrothermal vents, testing the presence of culturable marine bacteria and their sensitivity to antibiotics and HMs. All of the bacterial isolates showed resistance to at least one antibiotic and one HM and, most notably, 80% of them displayed multi-AR on average to 12 (min 8, max 15) different antibiotics, as well as multi-HM tolerance. We show that our isolates displayed high similarity (≥99%) to common marine bacteria, affiliating with Actinobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria and Firmicutes, and all displayed wide growth ranges for temperature and salinity during in vitro physiological tests. Notably, the analysis of the genomes available in public databases for their closest relatives highlighted the lack of genes for AR, posing new questions on the origin of multi-AR acquisition in this peculiar HM-rich environment. Overall, our results point out that shallow-water hydrothermal vents may contribute to enhance AR acquisition and spreading among common marine bacteria in coastal areas, highlighting this as a focus for future research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Erika Arcadi
- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Sicily Marine Centre, Contrada Porticatello, 29, 98167 Messina, Italy;
- Correspondence: (E.A.); (E.R.)
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Fano Marine Centre, Viale Adriatico 1-N, 61032 Fano, Italy
- Correspondence: (E.A.); (E.R.)
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- Department of Research Infrastructures for Marine Biological Resources, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy;
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- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn–Marine Biotechnology Department, Sicily Marine Centre, Villa Pace, Contrada Porticatello 29, 98167 Messina, Italy;
- Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council (CNR-ISP), Spianata S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Sicily Marine Centre, Contrada Porticatello, 29, 98167 Messina, Italy;
- Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (IRBIM), National Research Country (CNR), Messina, Spianata S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Research Infrastructures for Marine Biological Resources, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Sicily Marine Centre, Contrada Porticatello, 29, 98167 Messina, Italy;
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- Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale—OGS Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/C, 34010 Sgonico, Italy;
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- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Sicily Marine Centre, Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo (Complesso Roosevelt), 90149 Palermo, Italy;
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- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Sicily Marine Centre, Via dei Mille 46, 98057 Milazzo, Italy;
- National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Via dei Mille 46, 98057 Milazzo, Italy
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