In this study, macroscopic and spectroscopic data were combined to develop a surface complexation model that describes the acid-base properties of Bacillus subtilis. The bacteria were freeze-dried and then resuspended in 0.1 M NaCl ionic medium. Macroscopic measurements included potentiometric acid-base titrations and electrophoretic mobility measurements. In addition, ATR-FTIR spectra of wet pastes from suspensions of Bacillus subtilis at different pH values were collected. The least-squares program MAGPIE was used to generate a surface complexation model that takes into account the presence of three acid-base sites on the surface: tCOOH, tNH+, and tPO-, which were identified previously by XPS measurements. Both potentiometric titration data and ATR-FTIR spectra were used quantitatively, and electrostatic effects at the charged bacterial surface were accounted for using the constant capacitance model. The model was calculated using two different approaches: in the first one XPS data were used to constrain the ratio of the total concentrations of all three surface sites. The capacitance of the double layer, the total buffer capacity, and the deprotonation constants of the tNH+, tPOH, and tCOOH species were determined in the fit. A second approach is presented in which the ratio determined by XPS of the total concentrations of tNH+ to tPO- sites is relaxed. The total concentration of tPO- sites was determined in the fit, while the deprotonation constant for tPOH was manually varied until the minimization led to a model which predicted an isoelectric point that resulted in consistency with electrophoretic mobility data. The model explains well the buffering capacity of Bacillus subtilis suspensions in a wide pH range (between pH ) 3 and pH ) 9) which is of considerable environmental interest. In particular, a similar quantitative use of the IR data opens up possibilities to model other bacterial surfaces at the laboratory scale and help estimate the buffering capacity of carboxylatecontaining compounds in natural samples.

Modeling the Acid Base Properties of Bacterial Surfaces: A Combined Spectroscopic and Potentiometric Study of the Gram-Positive Bacterium Bacillus Subtilis / L., Leone; Ferri, Diego; Manfredi, Carla; P., Persson; A., Shchukarev; S., Sjoberg; J., Loring. - In: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 0013-936X. - ELETTRONICO. - 41:18(2007), pp. 6465-6471. [10.1021/es070996e]

Modeling the Acid Base Properties of Bacterial Surfaces: A Combined Spectroscopic and Potentiometric Study of the Gram-Positive Bacterium Bacillus Subtilis

FERRI, DIEGO;MANFREDI, CARLA;
2007

Abstract

In this study, macroscopic and spectroscopic data were combined to develop a surface complexation model that describes the acid-base properties of Bacillus subtilis. The bacteria were freeze-dried and then resuspended in 0.1 M NaCl ionic medium. Macroscopic measurements included potentiometric acid-base titrations and electrophoretic mobility measurements. In addition, ATR-FTIR spectra of wet pastes from suspensions of Bacillus subtilis at different pH values were collected. The least-squares program MAGPIE was used to generate a surface complexation model that takes into account the presence of three acid-base sites on the surface: tCOOH, tNH+, and tPO-, which were identified previously by XPS measurements. Both potentiometric titration data and ATR-FTIR spectra were used quantitatively, and electrostatic effects at the charged bacterial surface were accounted for using the constant capacitance model. The model was calculated using two different approaches: in the first one XPS data were used to constrain the ratio of the total concentrations of all three surface sites. The capacitance of the double layer, the total buffer capacity, and the deprotonation constants of the tNH+, tPOH, and tCOOH species were determined in the fit. A second approach is presented in which the ratio determined by XPS of the total concentrations of tNH+ to tPO- sites is relaxed. The total concentration of tPO- sites was determined in the fit, while the deprotonation constant for tPOH was manually varied until the minimization led to a model which predicted an isoelectric point that resulted in consistency with electrophoretic mobility data. The model explains well the buffering capacity of Bacillus subtilis suspensions in a wide pH range (between pH ) 3 and pH ) 9) which is of considerable environmental interest. In particular, a similar quantitative use of the IR data opens up possibilities to model other bacterial surfaces at the laboratory scale and help estimate the buffering capacity of carboxylatecontaining compounds in natural samples.
2007
Modeling the Acid Base Properties of Bacterial Surfaces: A Combined Spectroscopic and Potentiometric Study of the Gram-Positive Bacterium Bacillus Subtilis / L., Leone; Ferri, Diego; Manfredi, Carla; P., Persson; A., Shchukarev; S., Sjoberg; J., Loring. - In: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 0013-936X. - ELETTRONICO. - 41:18(2007), pp. 6465-6471. [10.1021/es070996e]
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