Uranium isotope fractionation: a novel biosignature to identify microbial metabolism on early Earth

Project Information

UNEARTH

Grant agreement ID: 725675

DOI 10.3030/725675

Project closed

EC signature date 13 March 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 28 February 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 998 971,00

EU contribution € 1 998 971,00

Coordinated by

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Switzerland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Electron flux is a key determinant of uranium isotope fractionation during bacterial reduction

Author(s): Brown Ashley, Molinas Margaux, Roebbert, Yvonne Sato, Ataru Abe, Minori Weyer, Stefan Bernier-Latmani, Rizlan
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, 2023, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00989-x

Persistence of the Isotopic Signature of Pentavalent Uranium in Magnetite

Author(s): Zezhen Pan, Yvonne Roebbert, Aaron Beck, Barbora Bartova, Tonya Vitova, Stefan Weyer, and Rizlan Bernier-Latmani*
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, 2022, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c06865

Contribution of the nuclear field shift to kinetic uranium isotope fractionation

Author(s): Brown Ashley, Roebbert Yvonne, Sato Ataru, Hada M.,Abe Minori, Weyer Stefan, Bernier-Latmani Rizlan
Published in: Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 2023, ISSN 2410-339X
Publisher: European Association of Geochemistry
DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2333

Mechanism of Reduction of Aqueous U(V)-dpaea and Solid-Phase U(VI)-dpaea Complexes: The Role of Multiheme c‑Type Cytochromes

Author(s): Molinas Margaux Meibom Lederballe Karin Faizova Radmila Bernier-Latmani Rizlan Mazzanti Marinella
Published in: Environmental Science and Technology, 2023, Page(s) 7537-7546, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c00666

Nanoscale mechanism of UO2 formation through uranium reduction by magnetite

Author(s): Zezhen Pan, Barbora Bártová, Thomas LaGrange, Sergei M. Butorin, Neil C. Hyatt, Martin C. Stennett, Kristina O. Kvashnina, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17795-0

Ab initio and steady-state models for uranium isotope fractionation in multi-step biotic and abiotic reduction

Author(s): Ataru Sato, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Masahiko Hada, Minori Abe
Published in: GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 2021, Page(s) 212-227, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.05.044

Biological Reduction of a U(V)–Organic Ligand Complex

Author(s): Margaux Molinas; Radmila Faizova; Ashley Brown; Jurij Galanzew; Bianca Schacherl; Barbora Bártová; Karin Lederballe Meibom; Tonya Vitova; Marinella Mazzanti; Rizlan Bernier-Latmani
Published in: Environmental Science and Technology, 55 (8), 4753–4761, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.5445/ir/1000131425

Ligand-Supported Facile Conversion of Uranyl(VI) into Uranium(IV) in Organic and Aqueous Media

Author(s): Radmila Faizova, Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, and Marinella Mazzanti
Published in: Angewandte Chemie, 2020, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201916334

Uranium Isotope Fractionation during the Anoxic Mobilization of Noncrystalline U(IV) by Ligand Complexation

Author(s): Yvonne Roebbert*, Chris Daniel Rosendahl, Ashley Brown, Axel Schippers, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, and Stefan Weyer
Published in: Environmental Science and Technology, 2021, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c08623