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Bacterial oxidation of mercury metal vapor, Hg(0).
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 1998
Smith T, Pitts K, McGarvey J A, Summers A O
Abstract excerpt
We used metalloregulated luciferase reporter fusions and spectroscopic quantification of soluble Hg(II) to determine that the hydroperoxidase-catalase, KatG, of Escherichia coli can oxidize monatomic elemental mercury vapor, Hg(0), to the water-soluble, ionic form, Hg(II). A strain with a mutation in katG and a strain overproducing KatG were used to demonstrate that the amount of Hg(II) formed is proportional to...
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