Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Low-Grade Feedstock Leachates Using Engineered Bacteria

Park, Dan M.; Brewer, Aaron William; Reed, David W.; Lammers, Laura Nielsen; Jiao, Yongqin

doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b02414

Title: Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Low-Grade Feedstock Leachates Using Engineered Bacteria

Journal Article · Mon Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Environmental Science and Technology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b02414· OSTI ID:1396035

Park, Dan M. ^[1]; Brewer, Aaron William ^[2]; Reed, David W. ^[3]; Lammers, Laura Nielsen ^[4];

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Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

The use of biomass for adsorption of rare earth elements (REEs) has been the subject of many recent investigations. However, REE adsorption by bioengineered systems has been scarcely documented, and rarely tested with complex natural feedstocks. Herein, we engineered E. coli cells for enhanced cell surface-mediated extraction of REEs by functionalizing the OmpA protein with 16 copies of a lanthanide binding tag (LBT). Through biosorption experiments conducted with leachates from metal-mine tailings and rare earth deposits, we show that functionalization of the cell surface with LBT yielded several notable advantages over the nonengineered control. First, the efficiency of REE adsorption from all leachates was enhanced as indicated by a 2-10-fold increase in distribution coefficients for individual REEs. Second, the relative affinity of the cell surface for REEs was increased over all non-REEs except Cu. Third, LBT-display systematically enhanced the affinity of the cell surface for REEs as a function of decreasing atomic radius, providing a means to separate high value heavy REEs from more common light REEs. Together, our results demonstrate that REE biosorption of high efficiency and selectivity from low-grade feedstocks can be achieved by engineering the native bacterial surface.

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Research Organization:: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC07-05ID14517; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1396035

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1479348

Report Number(s):: INL/JOU-17-41899

Journal Information:: Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 51, Issue 22; ISSN 0013-936X

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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