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ArticleAnnual review of earth and planetary sciences2014

Earth Abides Arsenic Biotransformations.

Yong-Guan Zhu, Masafumi Yoshinaga, Fang-Jie Zhao, Barry P Rosen

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Article in Annual review of earth and planetary sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 144 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

144 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Mechanisms of Arsenic Interaction inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Growth substrate limitation enhances anaerobic arsenic methylation byApplied and environmental microbiology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yong-Guan ZhuKey Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China; Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China.
Masafumi YoshinagaDepartment of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199.
Fang-Jie ZhaoCollege of Resources & Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China; Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom.
Barry P RosenDepartment of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199.

Funding

Mechanisms of arsenical transportR37GM055425 · NIGMS · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ROSEN, BARRY P. · 2005 to 2014
$4.4M
Mechanisms of Arsenic Transport and BiotransformationsR01GM055425 · NIGMS · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ROSEN, BARRY P. · 1997 to 2019
$3.8M
MECHANISMS OF ARSENIC TRANSPORT AND BIOTRANSFORMATIONSR35GM136211 · NIGMS · FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY · PI ROSEN, BARRY P. · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
The human arsenic methylation pathwayR01ES023779 · NIEHS · FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY · PI ROSEN, BARRY P. · 2015 to 2019
$1.6M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F004087/1NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES023779NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM055425NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136211NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM055425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arsenic is the most prevalent environmental toxic element and causes health problems throughout the world. The toxicity, mobility, and fate of arsenic in the environment are largely determined by its speciation, and arsenic speciation changes are driven, at least to some extent, by biological processes. In this article, biotransformation of arsenic is reviewed from the perspective of the formation of Earth and the evolution of life, and the connection between arsenic geochemistry and biology is described. The article provides a comprehensive overview of molecular mechanisms of arsenic redox and methylation cycles as well as other arsenic biotransformations. It also discusses the implications of arsenic biotransformation in environmental remediation and food safety, with particular emphasis on groundwater arsenic contamination and arsenic accumulation in rice.

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arsenicdegradationmethylationMSMAoxidationreductionriceroxarsone

Identifiers

PMID26778863
PMCPMC4712701

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