Subsystem: Mercuric reductase
This subsystem's description is:
Mercuric reductase is a broadly distributed system ('mer'), which plays an important role in mercury detoxification and biogeochemistry.MerA during exposure to non-inhibitory Zn2+ levels indicates that merA is an excellent early warning signal for Zn2+ inhibition.
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Mercuric reductase is a broadly distributed system ('mer'), which plays an important role in mercury detoxification and biogeochemistry.MerA during exposure to non-inhibitory Zn2+ levels indicates that merA is an excellent early warning signal for Zn2+ inhibition. Wang Y, Freedman Z, Lu-Irving P, Kaletsky R, Barkay T. An initial characterization of the mercury resistance (mer) system of the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2009 Jan;67(1):118-29. Radniecki TS, Semprini L, Dolan ME. Expression of merA, amoA and hao in continuously cultured Nitrosomonas europaea cells exposed to zinc chloride additions. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2009 Feb 1;102(2):546-53. Schué M, Dover LG, Besra GS, Parkhill J, Brown NL. Sequence and analysis of a plasmid-encoded mercury resistance operon from Mycobacterium marinum identifies MerH, a new mercuric ion transporter. J Bacteriol. 2009 Jan;191(1):439-44. Epub 2008 Oct 17. |
