Research Article
Biosorption of some Heavy Metals by Deinococcus radiodurans Isolatedfrom Soil in Basra Governorate-Iraq
| Jaafar R1, Al-Sulami A1, Al-Taee A2*, Aldoghachi F3, Suhaimi N4 and Mohammed S5 | |
| 1College of Education for Pure Science, Basra University, Basra, Iraq | |
| 2Marine Science Center, Basra University, Basra, Iraq | |
| 3College of Science, Basra University, Basra, Iraq | |
| 4College of Biotechnology, Putra Malaysia University, Malaysia | |
| 5College of Medicine, Putra Malaysia University, Malaysia | |
| *Corresponding Author : | Al-Taee A Marine Science Center, Basra University, Basra, Iraq E-mail: [email protected] |
| Received January 18, 2016; Accepted February 06, 2016; Published February 10, 2016 | |
| Citation: Jaafar R, Al-Sulami A, Al-Taee A, Aldoghachi F, Suhaimi N, et al. (2016) Biosorption of some Heavy Metals by Deinococcus radiodurans Isolated from Soil in Basra Governorate-Iraq. J Bioremed Biodeg 7:332. doi: 10.4172/2155-6199.1000332 | |
| Copyright: © 2016 Jaafar R, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans has been isolated from Basra soil. On the basis of morphological, biochemical, 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phylogeny analysis, the isolates were authentically identified as D. radiodurans. The biosorption capabilities of D. radiodurans for cadmium (Cd+2) and lead (Pb+2) were monitored at different concentrations and contact times. The characterization of heavy metals around the cells of bacterial strains was observed using the Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectrophotometer, X-ray powder diffraction analysis (XRD) and transmission electron microscope (TEM).
