Biology:Metallotolerant
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Short description: Extremophile organism that tolerates high concentrations of dissolved heavy metals
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Metallotolerants are extremophile organisms that are able to survive in environments with a high concentration of dissolved heavy metals. They can be found in environments containing arsenic, cadmium, copper, and zinc. Known metallotolerants include Ferroplasma sp. and Cupriavidus metallidurans.
Metallotolerants adapt to their environment by reducing energy loss by excreting less.
Sinorhizobium sp. M14 is a metallotolerant bacterium. [1]
References
- ↑ Romaniuk, Krzysztof; Dziewit, Lukasz; Decewicz, Przemyslaw; Mielnicki, Sebastian; Radlinska, Monika; Drewniak, Lukasz (2017). "Molecular characterization of the pSinB plasmid of the arsenite oxidizing, metallotolerant Sinorhizobium sp. M14 – insight into the heavy metal resistome of sinorhizobial extrachromosomal replicons" (in en). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93 (1): fiw215. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiw215. ISSN 0168-6496.
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