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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.
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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.

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Synergistic interaction of glyceraldehydes-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and ArsJ, a novel organoarsenical efflux permease, confers arsenate resistance

TL;DR: It is proposed that ArsJ is an efflux permease that extrudes 1As3 PGA from cells, where it rapidly dissociates into As(V) and 3‐phosphoglycerate (3PGA), creating a novel pathway of arsenate resistance.
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Identification of an Arsenic Resistance and Arsenic-Sensing System in Campylobacter jejuni

TL;DR: The ars operon is identified as an important mechanism for arsenic resistance and sensing in Campylobacter and is subject to regulation by ArsR, which directly binds to the ars promoter and inhibits the transcription of the operon.
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Characterization of Nitrate-Dependent As(III)-Oxidizing Communities in Arsenic-Contaminated Soil and Investigation of Their Metabolic Potentials by the Combination of DNA-Stable Isotope Probing and Metagenomics.

TL;DR: DNA-stable isotope probing with 13C-labelled NaHCO3 as the sole carbon source, amplicon sequencing, and shotgun metagenomics were combined to identify NDAB and investigate their NDAO metabolism, suggesting the proof-of-concept of using DNA-SIP to identify the slow-growing NDABs.
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Characterization of arsenic-resistant bacteria from the rhizosphere of arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata

TL;DR: The results suggested that these arsenic-resistant bacteria are metabolically adapted to arsenic-induced osmotic or oxidative stresses in addition to the specific bacterial system to exclude cellular arsenic, which contribute to the high arsenic resistance in the bacterial isolates.
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Temporal transcriptomic response during arsenic stress in Herminiimonas arsenicoxydans

TL;DR: Gene expression patterns suggest that the exposure to As( III) induces an acute response to rapidly minimize the immediate effects of As(III).
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