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Enhanced Biosorption of Sb(III) onto Living Rhodotorula mucilaginosa Strain DJHN070401: Optimization and Mechanism

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How to effectively remove excess Sb(III) in the water environment by biosorption is receiving close attention in the international scientific community. To obtain the maximum biosorption efficiency, response surface methodology (RSM) was employed to optimize a total of 13 factors for biosorption of Sb(III) onto living Rhodotorula mucilaginosa DJHN070401. The mechanism of biosorption and bioaccumulation was also studied. The results showed that biosorption reached 56.83% under the optimum conditions. Besides, pH, Fe2+, and temperature are significant influencing factors, and control of Ca2+ and Fe2+ has a beneficial impact on Sb(III) biosorption. The characterization explained that physical adsorption occurred readily on the loose and porous surface of DJHN070401 where carboxyl, amidogen, phosphate group, and polysaccharide C-O functional groups facilitated absorption by complexation with Sb(III), accompanied by ion exchange of Na+, Ca2+ ions with Sb(III). It was also noted that the living cell not only improved the removal efficiency in the presence of metabolic inhibitors but also prevented intracellular Sb(III) being re-released into the environment. The results of this study underpin improved and efficient methodology for biosorption of Sb(III) from wastewater.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41672350, 51604113) and Scientific Research Project of the Hunan Provincial Education Department (No.18A184).

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    Chang-sheng Jin, Bo-zhi Ren, Bao-lin Hou & Andrew S. Hursthouse

  2. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Shale Gas Resource Utilization, Xiangtan, 411201, People’s Republic of China

    Ren-jian Deng, Bo-zhi Ren, Bao-lin Hou & Andrew S. Hursthouse

  3. School of Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, PA1 2BE, UK

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R.-J.D. and C.-S.J. conceived and designed the study. B.-Z.R. and B.-L.H. analyzed the data. R.-J.D. and C.-S.J. wrote the paper. A.S.H. reviewed and edited the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

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Jin, Cs., Deng, Rj., Ren, Bz. et al. Enhanced Biosorption of Sb(III) onto Living Rhodotorula mucilaginosa Strain DJHN070401: Optimization and Mechanism. Curr Microbiol 77, 2071–2083 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-020-02025-z

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