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標題: | Diversity of mercury resistance determinants among Bacillus strains isolated from sediment of Minamata Bay | 作者: | Narita, M. Chiba, K. Nishizawa, H. Ishii, H. Huang, C.C. Kawabata, Z. Silver, S. Endo, G. |
關鍵字: | mercury resistance;Bacillus;mer genes;genetic diversity;Minamata Bay;gram-positive bacteria;class-ii transposon;volatilizing bacteria;natural environments;sequence-analysis;soil bacteria;mer operons;genes;japan;conservation | Project: | Fems Microbiology Letters | 期刊/報告no:: | Fems Microbiology Letters, Volume 223, Issue 1, Page(s) 73-82. | 摘要: | Thirty mercury-resistant (Hg-R) Bacillus strains were isolated from mercury-polluted sediment of Minamata Bay, Japan. Mercury resistance phenotypes were classified into broad-spectrum (resistant to inorganic Hg2+ and organomercurials) and narrow-spectrum (resistant to inorganic Hg2+ and sensitive to organomercurials) groups. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) product sizes and the restriction nuclease site maps of mer operon regions from all broad-spectrum Hg-R Bacillus were identical to that of Bacillus megaterium MB1. On the other hand, the PCR products of the targeted merP (extracellular mercury-binding protein gene) and merA (intracellular mercury reductase protein gene) regions from the narrow-spectrum Hg-R Bacillus were generally smaller than those of the R megaterium MB1 mer determinant. Diversity of gene structure configurations was also observed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) profiles of the merA PCR products from the narrow-spectrum Hg-R Bacillus. The genetic diversity of narrow-spectrum mer operons was greater than that of broad-spectrum ones. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. on behalf of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11455/68911 | ISSN: | 0378-1097 | DOI: | 10.1016/s0378-1097(03)00325-2 |
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