scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Biochemistry of arsenic detoxification

Barry P. Rosen
- 02 Oct 2002 - 
- Vol. 529, Iss: 1, pp 86-92
TLDR
While the overall schemes for arsenic resistance are similar in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, some of the specific proteins are the products of separate evolutionary pathways.
About
This article is published in FEBS Letters.The article was published on 2002-10-02 and is currently open access. It has received 726 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Arsenate reductase activity & Arsenate reductase.

read more

Citations
More filters
DissertationDOI

Physiology and application of sulfur-reducing microorganisms from acidic environments

TL;DR: The isolation and characterization of acidotolerant sulfur-reducing bacteria is described, providing a first understanding on their metabolism of sulfur compounds and insights on the beneficial microbial interactions for biotechnological purposes.
Journal ArticleDOI

Glutathione Is Involved in the Reduction of Methylarsenate to Generate Antibiotic Methylarsenite in Enterobacter sp. Strain CZ-1

TL;DR: It is shown that gshA encoding a glutamate-cysteine ligase in the glutathione biosynthesis pathway is involved in methylarsenate reduction in Enterobacter sp.

Characterization Of Arsd: An Arsenic Chaperone For The Arsab As(iii)-Translocating Atpase

Jianbo Yang
TL;DR: Arsenic is a metalloid toxicant that is widely distributed throughout the earth’s crust and causes a variety of health and environment problems, as an adaptation to arsenic-contaminated environments, organisms have developed resistance systems.
Journal ArticleDOI

Identification and Genome Analysis of an Arsenic-Metabolizing Strain of Citrobacter youngae IITK SM2 in Middle Indo-Gangetic Plain Groundwater

TL;DR: WGS data of a bacterial strain IITK SM2 isolated from an aquifer located in the middle Indo-Gangetic plain is reported here, along with its physiological, morphological, biochemical, and redox-transformation characteristics in the presence of dissolved arsenic (As).
Posted ContentDOI

Composition and Niche-Specific Characteristics of Microbial Consortia Colonizing Marsberg Copper Mine in the Rhenish Massif

TL;DR: In this paper, a metagenomic analysis revealed that the heavy metal resistant microbiome was evidently involved in redox cycling of transition metals (Cu, Zn, Co, Ni, Mn, Fe, Cd, Hg).
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Distantly related sequences in the alpha- and beta-subunits of ATP synthase, myosin, kinases and other ATP-requiring enzymes and a common nucleotide binding fold.

TL;DR: Related sequences in both alpha and beta and in other enzymes that bind ATP or ADP in catalysis help to identify regions contributing to an adenine nucleotide binding fold in both ATP synthase subunits.
Journal ArticleDOI

CLUSTAL: A package for performing multiple sequence alignment on a microcomputer

TL;DR: An approach for performing multiple alignments of large numbers of amino acid or nucleotide sequences is described, based on first deriving a phylogenetic tree from a matrix of all pairwise sequence similarity scores obtained using a fast pairwise alignment algorithm.
Journal ArticleDOI

Classification and evolution of P-loop GTPases and related ATPases.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared sequences and available structures for all the widely distributed representatives of the P-loop GTPases and GTPase-related proteins with the aim of constructing an evolutionary classification for this superclass of proteins and reconstructing the principal events in their evolution.
Journal ArticleDOI

Comparative toxicity of trivalent and pentavalent inorganic and methylated arsenicals in rat and human cells.

TL;DR: It is suggested that trivalent methylated arsenicals, intermediary products of arsenic methylation, may significantly contribute to the adverse effects associated with exposure to iAs, and high methylation capacity does not protect cells from the acute toxicity of triavalent arsenicals.
Journal ArticleDOI

The MRP gene encodes an ATP-dependent export pump for leukotriene C4 and structurally related conjugates.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the biosynthetic release of LTC4 from cells is mediated by the 190-kDa product of the MRP gene, a primary-active ATP-dependent export pump for conjugates of lipophilic compounds with glutathione and several other anionic residues.
Related Papers (5)