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ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international2018

Metal-tolerant thermophiles: metals as electron donors and acceptors, toxicity, tolerance and industrial applications.

Preeti Ranawat, Seema Rawat

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Review in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Identification of a New Heavy-Metal-Resistant Strain ofInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  7. Diversity and Niche of Archaea in Bioremediation.Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.) · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Preeti RanawatDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), Uttarakhand, India.
Seema RawatSchool of Life Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. seemamillenium@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2352-7991
Central University of Gujarat · INHemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metal-tolerant thermophiles are inhabitants of a wide range of extreme habitats like solfatara fields, hot springs, mud holes, hydrothermal vents oozing out from metal-rich ores, hypersaline pools and soil crusts enriched with metals and other elements. The ability to withstand adverse environmental conditions, like high temperature, high metal concentration and sometimes high pH in their niche, makes them an interesting subject for understanding mechanisms behind their ability to deal with multiple duress simultaneously. Metals are essential for biological systems, as they participate in biochemistries that cannot be achieved only by organic molecules. However, the excess concentration of metals can disrupt natural biogeochemical processes and can impose toxicity. Thermophiles counteract metal toxicity via their unique cell wall, metabolic factors and enzymes that carry out metal-based redox transformations, metal sequestration by metallothioneins and metallochaperones as well as metal efflux. Thermophilic metal resistance is heterogeneous at both genetic and physiology levels and may be chromosomally, plasmid or transposon encoded with one or more genes being involved. These effective response mechanisms either individually or synergistically make proliferation of thermophiles in metal-rich habitats possibly. This article presents the state of the art and future perspectives of responses of thermophiles to metals at genetic as well as physiological levels.

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Soil MicrobiologyThermotoleranceWater MicrobiologyEcosystemElectronsMetalsSoilMetalsSoilHeavy metal remediationHeavy metal toleranceMetallothioneinsMetal resistanceThermophiles

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PMID29238927
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