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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Rev Environ Sci Technol. 2019 Dec 23;50(21):2223–2270. doi: 10.1080/10643389.2019.1698260

Table 4.

Bacteria species with extracellular immobilization functions involving exopolysaccharide (EPS), siderophores and cell surface biosorption.

Isolation source Pb(II) media Phyluma Genus/Species Reference
Exopolysacchride (EPS) production
Coast Pb(CH3COO)2 100ppm Gammaproteobacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa De et al., 2008
Lead battery manufacturing plant Pb(NO3)2
1.6 mM		 Gammaproteobacteria Enterobacter cloacae Naik et al., 2012
- Pb(C2H3O2)2
1.3 – 13 mg/L		 Gammaproteobacteria Marinobacter sp. Bhaskar & Bhosle et al., 2006
- - Betaproteobacteria

 Burkholderia cepacia (formerly Pseudomonas cepacia) Nelson et al., 1995
- Pb(NO3)2
1mM		 Gammaproteobacteria


 Citrobacter sp.
 Macaskie and Dean, 1987
Metal mine Pb(NO3)2
2.5 mM		 Gammaproteobacteria Pseudomonas marginalis Roane, 1999
Industrial waste water Pb(NO3)2 Firmicutes Bacillus anthracis
El-Shanshoury et al., 2012
Siderophore production
Car battery waste Pb(NO3)20.5mM Gammaproteobacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa Naik and Duby, 2011
- Pb(NO3)2 Gammaproteobacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa O’Brien et al., 2014
Surface biosorption
Hospital sewage PbCI2 Gammaproteobacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa Chang et al., 1997
Soil - Gammaproteobacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa Karimpour et al., 2018
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Proteobacteria are listed by class if available