Literature summary for 4.99.1.2 extracted from

Kotrba, P.; Najmanova, J.; Macek, T.; Ruml, T.; Mackova, M.
Genetically modified plants in phytoremediation of heavy metal and metalloid soil and sediment pollution (2009), Biotechnol. Adv., 27, 799-810.

Cloned(Commentary)

Cloned (Comment)	Organism
gene merB, overexpression in Arabidopsis thaliana of cytoplasmic MerB allows the transgenic plants to grow at 5fold higher methyl mercury concentrations compared to wild-type controls, the additional expression of merApe9 in merA/merB hybrid plants further improves tolerance by a factor of 10 and promots efficient phenyl mercury removal and Hg0 volatization from a model solution, overexpression in Nicotiana tabacum chloroplasts, the phenotype shows doubled biomass yield with seedlings grown on medium with 0.4 mM phenyl-Hg2+. More than a 10fold higher volatization rate is further achieved by the targeting of MerB in the endoplasmic reticulum of merA/merB, where MerB exhibits more than 20times higher specific activity than in plants with cytoplasmically distributed MerB	Escherichia coli

Cloned (Comment)

Organism

gene merB, overexpression in Arabidopsis thaliana of cytoplasmic MerB allows the transgenic plants to grow at 5fold higher methyl mercury concentrations compared to wild-type controls, the additional expression of merApe9 in merA/merB hybrid plants further improves tolerance by a factor of 10 and promots efficient phenyl mercury removal and Hg0 volatization from a model solution, overexpression in Nicotiana tabacum chloroplasts, the phenotype shows doubled biomass yield with seedlings grown on medium with 0.4 mM phenyl-Hg2+. More than a 10fold higher volatization rate is further achieved by the targeting of MerB in the endoplasmic reticulum of merA/merB, where MerB exhibits more than 20times higher specific activity than in plants with cytoplasmically distributed MerB

Escherichia coli

Organism

Organism	UniProt	Comment	Textmining
Escherichia coli	-	-	-
Escherichia coli Tn21	-	-	-

Synonyms

Synonyms	Comment	Organism
merB	-	Escherichia coli
organomercurial lyase	-	Escherichia coli

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