Synthetic biology approaches towards the recycling of metals from the environment

Proteomics Reveal Enhanced Oxidative Stress Responses and Metabolic Adaptation in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Biofilm Cells on Pyrite

(2019) Sören Bellenberg et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A Synthetic Plasmid Toolkit for Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

(2019) Yingxiu Cao et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

CyanoGate: A modular cloning suite for engineering cyanobacteria based on the plant MoClo syntax

(2019) Ravendran Vasudevan et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

An engineered GFP fluorescent bacterial biosensor for detecting and quantifying silver and copper ions

(2019) Adam Radek Martinez et al.   BIOMETALS

Antioxidant System and Biomolecules Alteration in Pisum sativum under Heavy Metal Stress and Possible Alleviation by 5-Aminolevulinic Acid

(2019) Yasser El-Amier et al.   MOLECULES

A new approach to biomining: Bioengineering surfaces for metal recovery from aqueous solutions

(2019) Jesica Urbina et al.   Scientific Reports

The bioenergetics mechanisms and applications of sulfate-reducing bacteria in remediation of pollutants in drainage: A review

(2018) Xin Li et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Functional exploration of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in the bioleaching of obsolete electric vehicle LiNi x Co y Mn1- x-y O 2 Li-ion batteries

(2018) Jia Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Genetic tools for reliable gene expression and recombineering in Pseudomonas putida

(2018) Taylor B. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Room temperature bioproduction, isolation and anti-microbial properties of stable elemental copper nanoparticles

(2018) Nikolaos Pantidos et al.   New Biotechnology

RecombinantEscherichia colias a biofactory for various single- and multi-element nanomaterials

(2018) Yoojin Choi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanistic insights into staphylopine-mediated metal acquisition

(2018) Liqiang Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biosynthesis of palladium nanoparticles using Shewanella loihica PV-4 for excellent catalytic reduction of chromium(vi)

(2018) Wei Wang et al.   Environmental Science-Nano

Biofilm Formation by the Acidophile Bacterium Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans Involves c-di-GMP Pathway and Pel exopolysaccharide

(2018) Mauricio Díaz et al.   Genes

In a quest for engineering acidophiles for biomining applications: challenges and opportunities

(2018) Yosephine Gumulya et al.   Genes

Microbiological synthesis of zinc sulfide nanoparticles using Desulfovibrio desulfuricans

(2018) Jun Gong et al.   Inorganic and Nano-Metal Chemistry

Birth of a Photosynthetic Chassis: A MoClo Toolkit Enabling Synthetic Biology in the Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2018) Pierre Crozet et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Integration of a Gold-Specific Whole E. coli Cell Sensing and Adsorption Based on BioBrick

(2018) Li Yan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Low-level thiocyanate concentrations impact on iron oxidation activity and growth of Leptospirillum ferriphilum through inhibition and adaptation

(2018) Catherine J. Edward et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

An Anaerobic Biosensor Assay for the Detection of Mercury and Cadmium

(2018) Benjamin R. Stenzler et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Identification of peptides as alternative recycling tools via phage surface display – How biology supports Geosciences

(2018) F.L. Lederer et al.   MINERALS ENGINEERING

Effects of hexavalent chromium on performance, extracellular polymeric substances and microbial community structure of anaerobic activated sludge in a sequencing batch reactor

(2017) Yao Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

A comparison of technologies for remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils

(2017) Sana Khalid et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION

Exploiting Microbial Polysaccharides for Biosorption of Trace Elements in Aqueous Environments—Scope for Expansion via Nanomaterial Intervention

(2017) Manikandan Muthu et al.   Polymers

Identification of key proteins and pathways in cadmium tolerance of Lactobacillus plantarum strains by proteomic analysis

(2017) Qixiao Zhai et al.   Scientific Reports

Production of Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles by Shewanella Species

(2016) Mitchell H. Wright et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bio-recovery of non-essential heavy metals by intra- and extracellular mechanisms in free-living microorganisms

(2016) Jorge D. García-García et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

SilE is an intrinsically disordered periplasmic “molecular sponge” involved in bacterial silver resistance

(2016) Karishma R. Asiani et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Toward Bioremediation of Methylmercury Using Silica Encapsulated Escherichia coli Harboring the mer Operon

(2016) Aunica L. Kane et al.   PLoS One

EcoFlex: A Multifunctional MoClo Kit for E. coli Synthetic Biology

(2016) Simon J. Moore et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Converting a Natural Protein Compartment into a Nanofactory for the Size-Constrained Synthesis of Antimicrobial Silver Nanoparticles

(2016) Tobias W. Giessen et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

EasyClone 2.0: expanded toolkit of integrative vectors for stable gene expression in industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains

(2015) Vratislav Stovicek et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

SEM and EDS observations of carrollite bioleaching with a mixed culture of acidophilic bacteria

(2015) Guy Nkulu et al.   MINERALS ENGINEERING

Nickel and platinum group metal nanoparticle production by Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20

(2015) M.J. Capeness et al.   New Biotechnology

Standards for plant synthetic biology: a common syntax for exchange of DNA parts

(2015) Nicola J. Patron et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Anaerobic bioleaching of metals from waste activated sludge

(2015) Roel J.W. Meulepas et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

CIDAR MoClo: Improved MoClo Assembly Standard and New E. coli Part Library Enable Rapid Combinatorial Design for Synthetic and Traditional Biology

(2015) Sonya V. Iverson et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Development of New Modular Genetic Tools for Engineering the Halophilic Archaeon Halobacterium salinarum

(2015) Rafael Silva-Rocha et al.   PLoS One

Biooxidation of Gold-, Silver, and Antimony-Bearing Highly Refractory Polymetallic Sulfide Concentrates, and its Comparison with Abiotic Pretreatment Techniques

(2014) Masahito Tanaka et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Engineering modular and tunable genetic amplifiers for scaling transcriptional signals in cascaded gene networks

(2014) Baojun Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Remediation of metalliferous soils through the heavy metal resistant plant growth promoting bacteria: Paradigms and prospects

(2014) Munees Ahemad   Arabian Journal of Chemistry

Environmental Sensing of Heavy Metals Through Whole Cell Microbial Biosensors: A Synthetic Biology Approach

(2014) Lara Tess Bereza-Malcolm et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Origin and evolution of metal P-type ATPases in Plantae (Archaeplastida)

(2014) Marc Hanikenne et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

“NiCo Buster”: engineering E. coli for fast and efficient capture of cobalt and nickel

(2014) Alexandre Duprey et al.   Journal of Biological Engineering

Cellular glutathione plays a key role in copper uptake mediated by human copper transporter 1

(2013) Edward B. Maryon et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Phytoremediation of heavy metals—Concepts and applications

(2013) Hazrat Ali et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

EasyClone: method for iterative chromosomal integration of multiple genes inSaccharomyces cerevisiae

(2013) Niels B. Jensen et al.   FEMS YEAST RESEARCH

The role of microorganisms in gold processing and recovery—A review

(2013) Anna H. Kaksonen et al.   HYDROMETALLURGY

Resources: Track flows to manage technology-metal supply

(2013) Andrew Bloodworth   NATURE

Gold biomineralization by a metallophore from a gold-associated microbe

(2013) Chad W Johnston et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

A Whole-Cell Biosensor for the Detection of Gold

(2013) Carla M. Zammit et al.   PLoS One

Room temperature biogenic synthesis of multiple nanoparticles (Ag, Pd, Fe, Rh, Ni, Ru, Pt, Co, and Li) by Pseudomonas aeruginosa SM1

(2012) Sarvesh Kumar Srivastava et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH

The Standard European Vector Architecture (SEVA): a coherent platform for the analysis and deployment of complex prokaryotic phenotypes

(2012) Rafael Silva-Rocha et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A BioBrick compatible strategy for genetic modification of plants

(2012) Patrick M Boyle et al.   Journal of Biological Engineering

Metalloregulatory proteins: Metal selectivity and allosteric switching

(2011) Hermes Reyes-Caballero et al.   BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Silver Nanocrystallites: Biofabrication usingShewanella oneidensis,and an Evaluation of Their Comparative Toxicity on Gram-negative and Gram-positive Bacteria

(2010) Anil K. Suresh et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Archaeal transformation of metals in the environment

(2010) Elisabetta Bini   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Novel approaches to biosensors for detection of arsenic in drinking water

(2009) N. Joshi et al.   DESALINATION

The Arsenic Hyperaccumulator FernPteris vittataL.

(2009) Qing-En Xie et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bioleaching of heavy metals from sewage sludge: A review

(2009) Ashish Pathak et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A modular system for Clostridium shuttle plasmids

(2009) John T. Heap et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Metalloproteins and metal sensing

(2009) Kevin J. Waldron et al.   NATURE

Extracellular Synthesis of Crystalline Silver Nanoparticles and Molecular Evidence of Silver Resistance fromMorganellasp.: Towards Understanding Biochemical Synthesis Mechanism

(2008) Rasesh Y. Parikh et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Glutathione and Transition-Metal Homeostasis in Escherichia coli

(2008) K. Helbig et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY