• DOI:10.1111/1462-2920.12771
Corpus ID: 9699895

Uranium phosphate biomineralization by fungi.

@article{Liang2015UraniumPB,
  title={Uranium phosphate biomineralization by fungi.},
  author={X. Liang and S. Hillier and Helen Pendlowski and N. Gray and A. Ceci and G. Gadd},
  journal={Environmental microbiology},
  year={2015},
  volume={17 6},
  pages={
          2064-75
        }
}

• X. Liang, S. Hillier, +3 authors G. Gadd
• Published 2015
• Biology, Medicine
• Environmental microbiology

Geoactive soil fungi were investigated for phosphatase-mediated uranium precipitation during growth on an organic phosphorus source. Aspergillus niger and Paecilomyces javanicus were grown on modified Czapek-Dox medium amended with glycerol 2-phosphate (G2P) as sole P source and uranium nitrate. Both organisms showed reduced growth on uranium-containing media but were able to extensively precipitate uranium and phosphorus-containing minerals on hyphal surfaces, and these were identified by X… Expand