Table 3.
Zn biosorption and metal uptake ability of various Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial species, as reported in different studies.
| Bacterial strains | Initial metal concentration | Metal uptake | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacillus firmus | 100 mg/l | 61.8% | Salehizadeh and Shojaosadati, 2003 |
| B. subtilis D215 | 100 mg/l | 63.73% | Sabae et al., 2006 |
| Bacillus jeotgali | 75 mg/l | 30% | Green-Ruiz et al., 2008 |
| B. cereus | 0–200 mg/l | 66.6 mg/g | Joo et al., 2010 |
| Pseudomonas sp. | 1 mm | 49.8% | Kumaran et al., 2011 |
| Delftia tsuruhatensis | – | 0.207 mmoL/g | Bautista-Hernández et al., 2012 |
|
Pseudomonas sp. SN7 Pseudomonas sp. SN28 Pseudomonas sp. SN30 |
1.6 mM | 29 mg/g 25 mg/g 26 mg/g |
Ahemad and Malik, 2012 |
|
Geobacillus thermodenitrificans
Geobacillus thermocatenulatus. |
0.5 g/l | 18 mg/l 24 mg/l |
Babák et al., 2012 |
| Exiguobacterium sp. ZM-2 | 25–200 mg/l | 78.2% | Alam and Ahmad, 2013 |
| B. licheniformis | 0.1 mg/l | 53% | Kamika and Momba, 2013 |
|
B. licheniformis
Salmonella typhi P. fluorescens Escherichia coli |
– | 96.14% 91.78% 96.14% 93.27% |
Basha and Rajaganesh, 2014 |
|
Alcaligenes faecalis
Staphylococcus aureus Streptococcus lactis Micrococcus luteus Enterobacter aerogenes |
– | 39% 41% 38% 41% 67% |
Silambarasan and Abraham, 2013 |
|
Bacillus sp. (KF710041) B. subtilis (KF710042) |
– | 73.29% 78.15% |
Singh and Chopra, 2014 |
| Rhodobacter capsulatus | 10 mg/l | 164 mg/g | Magnin et al., 2014 |
| B. subtilis | 178 mg/l | 49.7 mg/l | Wierzba, 2015 |
| P. aeruginosa | 100 mg/l | 46.1 mg/g | Ahmady-Asbchin et al., 2015 |
|
P. aeruginosa
S. aureus Escherichia coli Proteus vulgaris Klebsiella pneumoniae |
7 mg/l | 53.9% 90.1% (Mix culture) |
Oaikhena et al., 2016 |
|
B. megaterium EMCC 1013 Rhizobium leguminosarum EMCC1130 |
1 mg/ml | 88% 85% |
El-barbary and El-badry, 2018 |
| Serratia sp. | 1,000 mg/kg | < 90% | Kour et al., 2019 |
| Streptomyces K11 strain | – | 36% | Sedlakova-Kadukova et al., 2019 |
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia XZN4 | 20 g/l | 91.6% | Huang et al., 2020 |
| Oceanobacillus profundus | 2 mg/ml | 54% | Mwandira et al., 2020 |
|
Sporosarcina pasteurii Urease-producing isolate L-asparaginase-producing isolate |
4 mmol/l 8 mmol/l |
70.36% 71.46% 97.32% |
Ghorbanzadeh et al., 2022 |