N. Donnellan et al., THE EFFECT OF ELECTRIC-FIELD STIMULATION ON THE BIOSORPTION OF URANIUM BY NONLIVING BIOMASS DERIVED FROM KLUYVEROMYCES-MARXIANUS IMB3, Biotechnology letters, 17(4), 1995, pp. 439-442
Non-living biomass from the thermotolerant, ethanol-producing yeast st
rain Kluyveromyces marxianus IMB3 is capable of uranium biosorption. T
he biomass has an observed biosorption capacity of 115mg uranium/g dry
weight of biomass with a calculated value of 127mg uranium/g dry weig
ht. Following exposure of the biomass to electric fields of 2,500 V/cm
for 20msec. the maximum biosorption capacity (observed or calculated)
for uranium did not differ significantly for the untreated biomass. H
owever, at lower residual concentrations of uranium ( <10mg/L) the cap
acity of the treated biomass for uranium was significantly increased a
bove values obtained with untreated material.