Bacterially Induced Mineralization of Calcium Carbonate in Terrestrial Environments: The Role of Exopolysaccharides and Amino Acids

By Olivier Braissant, G. Cailleau, C. Dupraz, É. Verrecchia. 2003

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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Calcium carbonate precipitation by cyanobacterial polysaccharides (2010, background): “Therefore, acidic polysaccharides are responsible for calcium carbonate precipitation in our experiments; they comprise L-glutamic and L-aspatic acids which were shown to be able to nucleate calcium carbonate (Braissant et al. 2003).”
Microbial Kinetic Controls on Calcite Morphology in Supersaturated Solutions (2005, background): “Other studies have reported the formation of hemispherical and spherical calcite crystals in the presence of organic molecules and microbes (Braissant et al. 2003; Buczynski and Chafetz 1991; Meldrum and Hyde 2001).”
Sulfate reducing bacteria in microbial mats: Changing paradigms, new discoveries (2006, background): “…of EPS produce exposed carboxyl groups whose chemical and structural characteristics may provide nucleation sites that induce calcium carbonate precipitation (Trichet and Défarge, 1995) and affect carbonate mineralogy (e.g., calcite, vaterite; e.g., Reitner, 1993, Braissant et al., 2003).”
Biological Soil Crusts in the Mojave Desert, USA: Micromorphology and Pedogenesis (2012, background): “Authigenic mineral precipitates form as EPS is mineralized (Campbell, 1979; Braissant et al., 2003), which further cements grains.”
Overview of biopolymer-induced mineralization: What goes on in biofilms? (2010, background): “When rganic molecules such as EPS, amino acids and dextrans sorb o carbonates (Hazem et al., 2001; Hardikar and Matijevic, 2001; raissant et al., 2003; Perry et al., 2005), continued precipitation lows and dissolution is inhibited.”
Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats (2009, background): “Similar morphologies are also observed in physicochemically-forced precipitation of carbonate minerals within an EPS matrix with (e.g., Ben Chekroun et al., 2004) or without bacterial cells present (e.g., Braissant et al., 2003).”
Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPSs) in Ocean Systems (2017, background): “Speciﬁc moieties on EPS, such as acidic groups, can act as nuclei for subsequent CaCO 3 precipitation (Braissant et al., 2003; Bhaskar and Bhosle, 2005; Obst et al., 2009).”
Microbial Biofouling: Unsolved Problems, Insufficient Approaches, and Possible Solutions (2011, background): “EPS components such as polysaccharides seem to play a crucial role in such processes ( Braissant et al. 2003; Flemming and Wingender 2010).”
Photosynthesis, Respiration and Exopolymer Calcium-Binding in Biofilm Calcification (Westerhöfer and Deinschwanger Creek, Germany) (2008, background): “As shown by many researchers, different EPS compositions can lead to different crystal types (e.g., Kawaguchi and Decho 2002b; Braissant et al. 2003), and different cyanobacterial species exhibit different calcification fabrics (e.g., Merz 1992; Pentecost and Riding 1986).”
Biological process of soil improvement in civil engineering: A review (2016, background): “The third mechanism involves the extracellular macromolecules which are known to be capable of trapping calcium ions or sometimes serve as growth modifiers to control crystallization (Braissant et al., 2003).”
Precipitation of amorphous CaCO3 (aragonite-like) by cyanobacteria: A STXM study of the influence of EPS on the nucleation process (2009, background): “leopoliensis, as extracellular polymers are known to influence the mineralogy and morphology of CaCO3 precipitates in a variety of environments (Kawaguchi and Decho, 2002; Braissant et al., 2003; Braissant et al., 2007).”