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Bacterial Biomineralization Processes

 

Process

Mechanism

Mineral

Examples

1

Biologically induced (biotransfer extracellular)

Soluble biopolymers

Mn/FeOOH

Leptothrix
Pedomicrobium

 

 

Spore coats gas/ion exchange H2S CO2/pH
Preteolipid/ion transport Phosphate activity Electron transfer

Mn/FeOOH
Fe/CuS
CaCO3
MgNH4PO4
Ca5(OH)(PO4)3
(UO2)3(PO4)2
Fe3O4
UO2

Bacillus
Desulfovibrio
Calothrix
Proteus mirabilis
Streptococcus
Citrobacter
GS – 15
GS – 15

 

 

Nucleation proteins
S-layer templates?

H2O(ice)
FeOOH
Fe3O4

Pseudomonas syringae
Leptothrix Aquaspirillum magneotacticum

2

Biologically controlled (biosynthesis intracellular)

Ferritin micelles

Fe3S4/FeS2
FeO(OH) / (PO4)

Wild types
P.aeruginosa


 

 

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