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Bacterial mercury resistance from atoms to ecosystems

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Barkay, Tamar, Miller, Susan M., Summers, Anne O.·2003·FEMS Microbiology Reviews

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Bacterial resistance to inorganic and organic mercury compounds (HgR) is one of the most widely observed phenotypes in eubacteria. Loci conferring HgR in Gram-positive or Gram-negative bacteria typically have at minimum a mercuric reductase enzyme (MerA) that reduces reactive ionic Hg(II) to volatile, relatively inert, monoatomic Hg(0) vapor and a membrane-bound protein (MerT) for uptake of Hg(II) arranged in an operon under control of MerR, a novel metal-responsive regulator. Many HgR loci encode an additional enzyme, MerB, that degrades organomercurials by protonolysis, and one or more additional proteins apparently involved in transport. Genes conferring HgR occur on chromosomes, plasmids, and transposons and their operon arrangements can be quite diverse, frequently involving duplications of the above noted structural genes, several of which are modular themselves. How this very mobile and plastic suite of proteins protects host cells from this pervasive toxic metal, what roles it has in the biogeochemical cycling of Hg, and how it has been employed in ameliorating environmental contamination are the subjects of this review.

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Authors: Barkay, T., Miller, S. M., & Summers, A. O.
Affiliations: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
University of California, San Francisco (US)
University of Georgia (US)
Corresponding author: Summers, Anne O.
ORCID: Barkay, Tamar
Miller, Susan M.
Summers, Anne O.
Venue: FEMS Microbiology Reviews
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2003-06
Volume: 27
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 355-384
ISSN: 0168-6445 (ISSN-L)
1574-6976
DOI: 10.1016/s0168-6445(03)00046-9
OpenAlex: W2161714667
Cited by: 1,054
References: 295
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FWCI: 3.87
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Locations: FEMS Microbiology Reviews (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Mercury impact and mitigation studies
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial metabolism and enzyme function
Keywords: mercuric reductase, MERA, MerB, MerR, MERT, plasmids, transposable elements, gene duplication, mercury cycling, mercury contamination
MeSH terms: Amino Acid Sequence, Genes, Bacterial, Gram-Negative Bacteria, Industrial Waste, Mercury, Models, Biological, Models, Genetic, Molecular Sequence Data, Oxidoreductases, Sequence Alignment, Ion Transport, Mercury Compounds, Ecosystem, Drug Resistance, Bacterial

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