ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2015
Microbial growth under supercritical CO2.
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- Engineered microbial biofuel production and recovery under supercritical carbon dioxide.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Microbial community composition of a hydrocarbon reservoir 40 years after a CO2 enhanced oil recovery flood.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2018Article
- Isolation, Development, and Genomic Analysis ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Microbial potential for carbon and nutrient cycling in a geogenic supercritical carbon dioxide reservoir.Environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- Geochemical Influence on Microbial Communities at COFrontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Biosurfactant as an Enhancer of Geologic Carbon Storage: Microbial Modification of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angle in Carbon dioxide/Water/Quartz Systems.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Thermodynamic and Kinetic Response of Microbial Reactions to High COFrontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Draft Genome Sequences of Supercritical CO2-Tolerant Bacteria Bacillus subterraneus MITOT1 and Bacillus cereus MIT0214.Genome announcements · 2015Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Growth of microorganisms in environments containing CO2 above its critical point is unexpected due to a combination of deleterious effects, including cytoplasmic acidification and membrane destabilization. Thus, supercritical CO2 (scCO2) is generally regarded as a sterilizing agent. We report isolation of bacteria from three sites targeted for geologic carbon dioxide sequestration (GCS) that are capable of growth in pressurized bioreactors containing scCO2. Analysis of 16S rRNA genes from scCO2 enrichment cultures revealed microbial assemblages of varied complexity, including representatives of the genus Bacillus. Propagation of enrichment cultures under scCO2 headspace led to isolation of six strains corresponding to Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subterraneus, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Bacillus safensis, and Bacillus megaterium. Isolates are spore-forming, facultative anaerobes and capable of germination and growth under an scCO2 headspace. In addition to these isolates, several Bacillus type strains grew under scCO2, suggesting that this may be a shared feature of spore-forming Bacillus spp. Our results provide direct evidence of microbial activity at the interface between scCO2 and an aqueous phase. Since microbial activity can influence the key mechanisms for permanent storage of sequestered CO2 (i.e., structural, residual, solubility, and mineral trapping), our work suggests that during GCS microorganisms may grow and catalyze biological reactions that influence the fate and transport of CO2 in the deep subsurface.
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