Bioremediation of mercury and the importance of bacterial mer genes

Adelaja, 2012, Tolerance of TBT-resistant bacterial isolates to methylmercury, Research Journal of Environmental Science, 6, 1, 10.3923/rjes.2012.1.13

Al-Mailem, 2011, Mercury resistance and volatilization by oil utilizing haloarchaea under hypersaline conditions, Extremophiles, 15, 39, 10.1007/s00792-010-0335-2

AMAP/UNEP, 2008. Technical background report to the global atmospheric mercury assessment, Technical Report. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program/UNEP Chemicals Branch.

Barkay, 2003, Bacterial mercury resistance from atoms to ecosystems, FEMS Microbiology Review, 27, 355, 10.1016/S0168-6445(03)00046-9

Bogdanova, 1998, Horizontal spread of mer operons among Gram positive bacteria in natural environments, Microbiology, 144, 609, 10.1099/00221287-144-3-609

Brim, 2003, Engineering Deinococcus radiodurans for metal remediation in radioactive mixed waste environments, Nature Biotechnology, 18, 85, 10.1038/71986

Brooks, 2011, Temperature and sunlight controls of mercury oxidation and deposition atop the Greenland ice sheet, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 8295, 10.5194/acp-11-8295-2011

Champier, 2004, Characterization of the MerD protein from Ralstonia metallidurans CH34: a possible role in bacterial mercury resistance by switching off the induction of the mer operon, Molecular Microbiology, 52, 1475, 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04071.x

Chiarle, 2000, Mercury removal from water by ion exchange resins adsorption, Water Research, 34, 2971, 10.1016/S0043-1354(00)00044-0

Chien, 2010, Organomercurials removal by heterogeneous merB genes harboring bacterial strains, Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, 110, 94, 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2010.01.010

Cursino, 2000, Capacity of mercury volatilization by mer (from Escherichia coli) and glutathione S-transferase (from Schistosoma mansoni) genes cloned in Escherichia coli, Science of the Total Environment, 261, 109, 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00629-X

Dash, H.R., Mangwani, N., Das, S., 2010. Potential utilization of mercury resistant bacteria in bioremediation at mercury contaminated sites. In: Proceedings of International Symposium on Recent Advances in Cross-disciplinary Microbiology: Avenues & Challenges. Association of Microbiologists of India. p.126.

Dash, H.R., Das, S., 2012. Mercury resistant marine bacterial population from Bhitarkanika mangrove ecosystem, Odisha. In: Proceedings of National Conference on Mangrove Wetlands and Near Shore Marine Ecosystems from Sustainability Issues to Management and Restoration. School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, pp. 48–49.

Dufault, 2009, Mercury from chlor-alkali plants: measured concentrations in food product sugar, Environmental Health, 8, 6, 10.1186/1476-069X-8-2

Duffus, J.H., 2002. Heavy metals a meaningless term? IUPAC Technical Report. Pure and Applied Chemistry 74, pp. 793–807.

Engstrom, 1994, Atmospheric mercury deposition to lakes and watersheds: a quantitative reconstruction from multiple sediment cores, 33

Fitzgerald, 1991, Atmospheric cycling and air-water exchange of mercury over mid-continental lacustrine regions, Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 56, 745, 10.1007/BF00342314

Gadd, 1992, Microbial control of heavy metal pollution, 59

Glick, 2003, Phytoremediation: synergistic use of plants and bacteria to clean up the environment, Biotechnology Advances, 21, 383, 10.1016/S0734-9750(03)00055-7

Hamlett, 1992, Roles of the Tn21 merT, merP and merC gene products in mercury resistance and mercury binding, Journal of Bacteriology, 174, 6377, 10.1128/jb.174.20.6377-6385.1992

Henneberry, 2011, Removal of inorganic mercury and methylmercury from surface waters following coagulation of dissolved organic matter with metal-based salts, Science of the Total Environment, 409, 631, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.10.030

Huang, 1999, Structure analysis of a class II transposon encoding the mercury resistance of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus megaterium MB1, a strain isolated from Minamata Bay, Japan, Gene, 234, 361, 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00184-5

Huang, 1999, Identification of three merB genes and characterization of a broad spectrum mercury resistance module encoded by class II transposon of Bacillus megaterium MB1, Gene, 239, 361, 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00388-1

Huang, 2002, Characterization of two regulatory genes of the mercury resistance determinants from TnMERI1 by luciferase-based examination, Gene, 301, 13, 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)01086-7

Huang, 2010, Bacterial mercury resistance of TnMERI1 and its’ application in bioremediation, vol. 3, 23

Jaffe, 2005, Export of atmospheric mercury from Asia, Atmospheric Environment, 39, 3029, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.01.030

Kim, 2001, The temporal distribution characteristics of total gaseous mercury at an urban monitoring site in Seoul during 1999-2000, Atmosphere and Environment, 35, 4253, 10.1016/S1352-2310(01)00214-X

Kiyono, 1999, The merG gene product is involved in phenylmercury resistance in Pseudomonas strain K-62, Journal of Bacteriology, 81, 726, 10.1128/JB.181.3.726-730.1999

Lamborg, 1995, Atmospheric mercury in northern Wisconsin: sources and species, Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 80, 189, 10.1007/BF01189667

Leonhauser, 2007, Functioning of the mercury resistance operon at extremely high Hg(II) loads in a chemostat: a proteome analysis, Journal of Biotechnology, 132, 469, 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2007.08.018

Li, 2009, Mercury pollution in Asia: a review of the contaminated sites, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 168, 591, 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.03.031

Liebert, 1999, Transposon Tn21, flagship of the floating genome, Microbiology and Molecular Reviews, 63, 507, 10.1128/MMBR.63.3.507-522.1999

Liebert, 1997, Phylogeny of mercury resistance (mer) operons of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from the fecal flora of primates, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 63, 1066, 10.1128/AEM.63.3.1066-1076.1997

Mason, 2000, Annual and seasonal trends in mercury deposition in Maryland, Atmospheric Environment, 34, 1691, 10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00428-8

Mateos, 2006, Corynebacterium glutamicum as a model bacterium for the bioremediation of arsenic, International Microbiology, 9, 207

Misra, 1992, Bacterial resistances to inorganic mercury salts and organomercurials, Plasmid, 25, 4, 10.1016/0147-619X(92)90002-R

Mohan, 2001, Kinetics of mercury adsorption from wastewater using activated carbon derived from fertilizer waste, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 177, 169, 10.1016/S0927-7757(00)00669-5

Mukhopadhyay, 1991, Purification and functional characterization of MerD: a coregulator of the mercury resistance operon in Gram negative bacteria, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 266, 18538, 10.1016/S0021-9258(18)55095-X

Munthe, 1992, Some aqueous reactions of potential importance in the atmospheric chemistry, Atmosphere and Environment, 26, 553, 10.1016/0960-1686(92)90168-K

Murtaza, 2005, Molecular cloning and genetic analysis of functional merB gene from Indian isolates of Escherichia coli, Current Microbiology, 51, 297, 10.1007/s00284-005-0013-2

Narang, 2011, Phytoremediation of mercury using Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms, International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, 8, 92, 10.1504/IJEWM.2011.040967

Nascimento, 2003, Operon mer: bacterial resistance to mercury and potential for bioremediation of contaminated environments, Genetics and Molecular Research, 2, 92

Nies, 1999, Microbial heavy metal resistance, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 51, 730, 10.1007/s002530051457

Oregaard, 2007, High diversity of bacterial mercuric reductase genes from surface and sub-surface floodplain soil (Oak Ridge, USA), The ISME Journal, 1, 453, 10.1038/ismej.2007.56

Osborn, 1997, Distribution, diversity and evolution of the bacterial mercury resistance (mer) operon, FEMS Microbiology Review, 19, 239, 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1997.tb00300.x

Pacyna, 2006, Global anthropogenic mercury emission inventory for 2000, Atmospheric Environment, 40, 4048, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.03.041

Pan-Hou, 2002, Polyphosphate produced in recombinant Escherichia coli confers mercury resistance, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 10325, 159, 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2002.tb11045.x

Pirrone, 2010, Global mercury emissions to the atmosphere from anthropogenic and natural sources, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 5951, 10.5194/acp-10-5951-2010

Powlowski, 1999, Reactivity of the two essential cysteine residues of the periplasmic mercuric ion-binding protein, MerP, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 274, 33320, 10.1074/jbc.274.47.33320

Ramadevi, 2005, Agricultural solid waste for the removal of inorganics: adsorption of mercury(II) from aqueous solution by Tamarind nut carbon, Indian Journal of Chemical Technology, 12, 407

Ravel, 2000, Cloning and sequence analysis of the mercury resistance operon of Streptomyces sp. strain CHR28 reveals a novel putative second regulatory gene, Journal of Bacteriology, 182, 2345, 10.1128/JB.182.8.2345-2349.2000

Reniero, 1995, Cloning and comparison of mercury and organomercurial resistance determinants from a Pseudomonas stutzeri plasmid, Gene, 166, 77, 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00546-4

Robinson, 1984, Mechanisms of microbial resistance and detoxification of mercury and organomercury compounds: physiological, biochemical and genetic analyses, Microbiological Review, 48, 95, 10.1128/MMBR.48.2.95-124.1984

Rojas, 2011, Characterization of the metabolically modified heavy metal resistant Cupriavidus metallidurans strain MSR33 gene rated for mercury bioremediation, PLoS ONE, 6, 10, 10.1371/journal.pone.0017555

Rossy, 2004, Is the cytoplasmic loop of MerT, the mercuric ion transport protein, involved in mercury transfer to the mercuric reductase?, FEBS Letters, 575, 86, 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.08.041

Ruiz, 2011, Characterization of mercury bioremediation by transgenic bacteria expressing metallothionein and polyphosphate kinase, BMC Biotechnology, 11, 8, 10.1186/1472-6750-11-82

Schaefer, 2011, Active transport, substrate specificity, and methylation of Hg(II) in anaerobic bacteria, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 8714, 10.1073/pnas.1105781108

Schelert, 2004, Occurrence and characterization of mercury resistance in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus by use of gene disruption, Journal of Bacteriology, 186, 427, 10.1128/JB.186.2.427-437.2004

Schottel, 1978, The mercuric and organomercurial detoxifying enzymes from a plasmid bearing strain of Escherichia coli, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 253, 4341, 10.1016/S0021-9258(17)34725-7

Schroeder, 1998, Atmospheric mercury – an overview, Atmospheric Environment, 32, 809, 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00293-8

Seigneur, 2004, Global source attribution for mercury deposition in the United States, Environmental Science and Technology, 38, 555, 10.1021/es034109t

Shi, 2005, The speciation and bioavailability of mercury in sediments of Haihe River, China, Environment International, 31, 357, 10.1016/j.envint.2004.08.008

Silver, 1994, Exploiting heavy metal resistance systems in bioremediation, Research in Microbiology, 145, 61, 10.1016/0923-2508(94)90072-8

Singh, 2004, Enhancement of metal bioremediation by use of microbial surfactants, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 319, 291, 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.04.155

Siudek, 2011, Temporal variability of particulate mercury in the air over the urbanized zone of the southern Baltic, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2, 484, 10.5094/APR.2011.055

Sone, 2010, Roles played by MerE and MerT in the transport of inorganic and organic mercury compounds in Gram–negative bacteria, Journal of Health Science, 56, 123, 10.1248/jhs.56.123

Stelting, S., Burns, R.G., Sunna, A., Visnovsky, G., Bunt, C., 2010. Immobilization of Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP: a stable inoculant for the bioremediation of atrazine. In: 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World 1–6 August 2010, Brisbane, Australia.

Streets, 2005, Anthropogenic mercury emissions in China, Atmospheric Environment, 39, 7789, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.08.029

Streets, 2009, Projections of global mercury emissions in 2050, Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 2983, 10.1021/es802474j

Swain, 1992, Increasing rates of atmospheric mercury deposition in midcontinental North America, Science, 257, 784, 10.1126/science.257.5071.784

U.S. EPA, 2007

Von Canstein, 1999, Removal of mercury from chloralkali electrolysis waste water by a mercury resistant Pseudomonas putida strain, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 65, 5279, 10.1128/AEM.65.12.5279-5284.1999

Wang, 2009, Biosorbents for heavy metals removal and their future, Biotechnology Advances, 27, 195, 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2008.11.002

Wang, 2004, Sources and remediation for mercury contamination in aquatic systems-a literature review, Environmental Pollution, 131, 323, 10.1016/j.envpol.2004.01.010

Wilson, 2000, MerF is a mercury transport protein: different structures but a common mechanism for mercuric ion transporters?, FEBS Letters, 472, 78, 10.1016/S0014-5793(00)01430-7

Wilson, 2006, Mapping the spatial distribution of global anthropogenic mercury atmospheric emission inventories, Atmospheric Environment, 40, 4621, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.03.042

Wireman, 1997, Association of mercury resistance with antibiotic resistance in the gram-negative fecal bacteria of primates, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 63, 4494, 10.1128/AEM.63.11.4494-4503.1997

Xiao-xi, 2010, Isolation, characterization and extraction of mer gene of Hg2+ resisting strain D2, Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 20, 507, 10.1016/S1003-6326(09)60170-9

Zhang, 2012, Characterization of a marine-isolated mercury-resistant Pseudomonas putida strain SP1 and its potential application in marine mercury reduction, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 93, 1305, 10.1007/s00253-011-3454-5

Zhu, 1997, Colloidal fouling of reverse osmosis membranes: measurements and fouling mechanisms, Environmental Science and Technology, 31, 3654, 10.1021/es970400v