Novel and Nontraditional Use of Stable Isotope Tracers To Study Metal Bioavailability from Natural Particles

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• 作者：Marie-No毛le Croteau ; Daniel J. Cain ; Christopher C. Fuller
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T)
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：April 2, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：47
• 期：7
• 页码：3424-3431
• 全文大小：294K
• 年卷期：v.47,no.7(April 2, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5851

文摘

We devised a novel tracing approach that involves enriching test organisms with a stable metal isotope of low natural abundance prior to characterizing metal bioavailability from natural inorganic particles. In addition to circumventing uncertainties associated with labeling natural particles and distinguishing background metals, the proposed 鈥渞everse labeling鈥?technique overcomes many drawbacks inherent to using radioisotope tracers. Specifically, we chronically exposed freshwater snails (Lymnaea stagnalis) to synthetic water spiked with Cu that was 99.4% ⁶⁵Cu to increase the relative abundance of ⁶⁵Cu in the snail鈥檚 tissues from 32% to >80%. The isotopically enriched snails were then exposed to benthic algae mixed with Cu-bearing Fe鈥揂l particles collected from the Animas River (Colorado), an acid mine drainage impacted river. We used ⁶³Cu to trace Cu uptake from the natural particles and inferred their bioavailability from calculation of Cu assimilation into tissues. Cu assimilation from these particles was 44%, indicating that 44% of the particulate Cu was absorbed by the invertebrate. This demonstrates that inorganic particulate Cu can be bioavailable. The reverse labeling approach shows great potential in various scientific areas such as environmental contamination and nutrition for addressing questions involving uptake of an element that naturally has multiple isotopes.