ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2020
Synergistic Effects of a Chalkophore, Methanobactin, on Microbial Methylation of Mercury.
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- Methane cycling microbes are important predictors of methylmercury accumulation in rice paddies.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- S-adenosyl-L-methionine is the unexpected methyl donor for the methylation of mercury by the membrane-associated HgcAB complex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Methanobactins: Structures, Biosynthesis, and Microbial Diversity.Annual review of microbiology · 2024Review
- Overview of Methylation and Demethylation Mechanisms and Influencing Factors of Mercury in Water.Toxics · 2024Review
- Evidence for methanobactin "Theft" and novel chalkophore production in methanotrophs: impact on methanotrophic-mediated methylmercury degradation.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Metal(loid) speciation and transformation by aerobic methanotrophs.Microbiome · 2021Review
- Detoxification, Active Uptake, and Intracellular Accumulation of Chromium Species by a Methane-Oxidizing Bacterium.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Microbial production of the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) is a significant health and environmental concern, as it can bioaccumulate and biomagnify in the food web. A chalkophore or a copper-binding compound, termed methanobactin (MB), has been shown to form strong complexes with mercury [as Hg(II)] and also enables some methanotrophs to degrade MeHg. It is unknown, however, if Hg(II) binding with MB can also impede Hg(II) methylation by other microbes. Contrary to expectations, MB produced by the methanotroph
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