Phytoremediation of methylmercury pollution: merB expression in Arabidopsis thaliana confers resistance to organomercurials

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6808-6813

  Bizily, Scott P ^a   Rugh, Clayton L ^a   Summers, Anne O ^a,b   Meagher, Richard B ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Heavy metals; Minamata disease; Organic mercury; Remediation

Indexed keywords

LYASE; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MODEL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, BACTERIAL; LYASES; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POACEAE;

EID: 0033535943     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.12.6808     Document Type: Article

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