发布: 2018年09月05日第8卷第17期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3002 浏览次数: 5810
评审: Valentine V TrotterKarolina SubrtovaAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
There is a pressing need to develop sustainable and efficient methods to protect and stabilize iron objects. To develop a conservation-restoration method for corroded iron objects, this bio-protocol presents the steps to investigate reductive dissolution of ferric iron and biogenic production of stabilizing ferrous iron minerals in the strict anaerobe Desulfitobacterium hafniense (strains TCE1 and LBE). We investigated iron reduction using three different Fe(III) sources: Fe(III)-citrate (a soluble phase), akaganeite (solid iron phase), and corroded coupons. This protocol describes a method that combines spectrophotometric quantification of the complex Fe(II)-Ferrozine® with mineral characterization by scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. These three methods allow assessing reductive dissolution of ferric iron and biogenic mineral production as a promising alternative for the development of an innovative sustainable method for the stabilization of corroded iron.
Keywords: Reductive dissolution of ferric iron (铁离子的还原性溶解作用)Background
Since the Iron Age, iron has been used to produce everyday utensils. Therefore, archaeological iron findings are an extremely important testimony of the past and should be preserved. However, due to its reactivity, iron can be easily corroded and archaeological iron objects risk to be completely damaged. When buried, iron artifacts develop a complex corrosion layer according to the environmental conditions of the burial site. After excavation, conditions change and the corrosion layer becomes unstable. To avoid complete destruction, archaeological iron objects require a rapid stabilization treatment. Currently, available stabilization treatments do not provide long-term protection and have substantial drawbacks, such as toxicity, low efficiency, and production of large amount of waste (Scott and Eggert, 2009; Rimmer et al., 2012). Consequently, it is necessary to develop new technologies to stabilize archaeological iron artifacts.
Exploiting a microbial metabolism is increasingly considered for the development of more efficient, sustainable and eco-friendly treatments in conservation-restoration (Ranalli et al., 2005; Cappitelli et al., 2006 and 2007; Jonkers, 2011; Joseph et al., 2011, 2012 and 2013; Bosch-Roig and Ranalli, 2014). Our research team is developing a treatment based on the reductive dissolution of ferric iron under anaerobic conditions (Kooli et al., 2018; Comensoli et al., 2017). The unstable corrosion products are converted into more stable biogenic minerals (i.e., magnetite and vivianite), as a byproduct of bacterial iron reduction. This conversion would stabilize the corrosion layer of the object.
In order to study the suitability of the chosen bacteria, iron reduction has to be carefully monitored. Several methods are available to quantify iron. Inductive coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is useful to measure trace elements with concentrations of less than 1 ppm (Meissner et al., 2004). However, it requires expensive equipment and does not provide information on the oxidation state of iron if not combined with chromatographic separation devices such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), ion chromatography (IC), gas chromatography (GC), and capillary electrophoresis (CE) (Thomas, 2013). A spectrophotometric method to measure Fe(II) uses the metal-ligand ortho-phenanthroline (Fortune and Mellon, 1938). This compound is now considered carcinogenic (Whittaker et al., 2001). Therefore, for this protocol we selected the spectrophotometric quantification of Fe(II) with the Ferrozine® assay. This simple and reliable method requires standard lab equipment and can be used to analyze many samples. In addition, the characterization of biogenic minerals was made based on their appearance, morphology and molecular composition. For these analyses, we used scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy.
This Bio-protocol consists of three main steps (Figure 1): A. Biomass production; B. Incubation with iron sources; C. Validation of iron reduction.
Figure 1. Graphical summary of the overall structure of this bio-protocol
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Comensoli, L., Maillard, J., Kooli, W. M., Junier, P. and Joseph, E. (2018). Soluble and Solid Iron Reduction Assays with Desulfitobacterium hafniense. Bio-protocol 8(17): e3002. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3002.
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微生物学 > 微生物新陈代谢 > 其它化合物
生物化学 > 其它化合物 > 离子
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