Expanded Diversity and Phylogeny of mer Genes Broadens Mercury Resistance Paradigms and Reveals an Origin for MerA Among Thermophilic Archaea

Bioenergetic constraints on the origin of autotrophic metabolism

(2020) Eric S. Boyd et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea

(2020) Donovan H. Parks et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Toward an Internally Consistent Model for Hg(II) Chemical Speciation Calculations in Bacterium–Natural Organic Matter–Low Molecular Mass Thiol Systems

(2020) Yu Song et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bacterial chemolithoautotrophy via manganese oxidation

(2020) Hang Yu et al.   NATURE

Photochemical behaviors of mercury (Hg) species in aquatic systems: A systematic review on reaction process, mechanism, and influencing factor

(2020) Hongwei Luo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms

(2020) Elizabeth A. McDaniel et al.   mSystems

Metagenome-assembled genome binning methods with short reads disproportionately fail for plasmids and genomic Islands

(2020) Finlay Maguire et al.   Microbial Genomics

Metagenomic Evidence for a Methylocystis Species Capable of Bioremediation of Diverse Heavy Metals

(2019) Ling-Dong Shi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Plasmid detection and assembly in genomic and metagenomic datasets

(2019) Dmitry Antipov et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Insights into ecological role of a new deltaproteobacterial order Candidatus Acidulodesulfobacterales by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

(2019) Sha Tan et al.   ISME Journal

Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments

(2019) Ivica Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Uncultured Microbial Phyla Suggest Mechanisms for Multi-Thousand-Year Subsistence in Baltic Sea Sediments

(2019) Jordan T. Bird et al.   mBio

Superoxide Dismutase and Pseudocatalase Increase Tolerance to Hg(II) in Thermus thermophilus HB27 by Maintaining the Reduced Bacillithiol Pool

(2019) Javiera Norambuena et al.   mBio

Genome Features and Secondary Metabolites Biosynthetic Potential of the Class Ktedonobacteria

(2019) Yu Zheng et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Determining the Reliability of Measuring Mercury Cycling Gene Abundance with Correlations with Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations

(2019) Geoff A. Christensen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A novel thermostable GH5 β-xylosidase from Thermogemmatispora sp. T81

(2019) Atilio Tomazini et al.   New Biotechnology

A review of global environmental mercury processes in response to human and natural perturbations: Changes of emissions, climate, and land use

(2018) Daniel Obrist et al.   AMBIO

Redox-dependent thiol modifications: implications for the release of extracellular vesicles

(2018) Birke J. Benedikter et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

The enhancement and inhibition of mercury reduction by natural organic matter in the presence of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

(2018) Seyong Lee et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Heliobacteria Reveal Fermentation As a Key Pathway for Mercury Reduction in Anoxic Environments

(2018) D. S. Grégoire et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Electron Transfer to Nitrogenase in Different Genomic and Metabolic Backgrounds

(2018) Saroj Poudel et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A systematic review on the management and treatment of mercury in artisanal gold mining

(2018) Tara Rava Zolnikov et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Robust Mercury Methylation across Diverse Methanogenic Archaea

(2018) Cynthia C. Gilmour et al.   mBio

Genomic inference of the metabolism and evolution of the archaeal phylum Aigarchaeota

(2018) Zheng-Shuang Hua et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial community structure with trends in methylation gene diversity and abundance in mercury-contaminated rice paddy soils in Guizhou, China

(2018) Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya et al.   Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation, Ferredoxin, Flavodoxin, and Anaerobic Respiration With Protons (Ech) or NAD+ (Rnf) as Electron Acceptors: A Historical Review

(2018) Wolfgang Buckel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Spectroscopic and Microscopic Evidence of Biomediated HgS Species Formation from Hg(II)–Cysteine Complexes: Implications for Hg(II) Bioavailability

(2018) Sara A. Thomas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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(2018)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Thermal Stability of a Mercuric Reductase from the Red Sea Atlantis II Hot Brine Environment as Analyzed by Site-Directed Mutagenesis

(2018) Mohamad Maged et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The draft genome sequence of “Nitrospira lenta” strain BS10, a nitrite oxidizing bacterium isolated from activated sludge

(2018) Dimitra Sakoula et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Enhanced Removal of Dissolved Hg(II), Cd(II), and Au(III) from Water by Bacillus subtilis Bacterial Biomass Containing an Elevated Concentration of Sulfhydryl Sites

(2017) Qiang Yu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(0) by Biogenic Magnetite from two Magnetotactic Bacteria

(2017) Songnian Liu et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Metabolic versatility of small archaea Micrarchaeota and Parvarchaeota

(2017) Lin-Xing Chen et al.   ISME Journal

Geobiological feedbacks and the evolution of thermoacidophiles

(2017) Daniel R Colman et al.   ISME Journal

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

(2017) Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al.   NATURE

Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

(2017) Robert M Bowers et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Oxidative dissolution of hydrothermal mixed-sulphide ore: An assessment of current knowledge in relation to seafloor massive sulphide mining

(2017) Emily K. Fallon et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

RNA-Dependent Cysteine Biosynthesis in Bacteria and Archaea

(2017) Takahito Mukai et al.   mBio

Metagenome sequencing and 98 microbial genomes from Juan de Fuca Ridge flank subsurface fluids

(2017) Sean P. Jungbluth et al.   Scientific Data

Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

(2017) Donovan H. Parks et al.   Nature Microbiology

Photomicrobial Visible Light-Induced Magnetic Mass Independent Fractionation of Mercury in a Marine Microalga

(2017) K. Kritee et al.   ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Structural and Biochemical Characterization of a Copper-Binding Mutant of the Organomercurial Lyase MerB: Insight into the Key Role of the Active Site Aspartic Acid in Hg–Carbon Bond Cleavage and Metal Binding Specificity

(2016) Haytham M. Wahba et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Recycler: an algorithm for detecting plasmids fromde novoassembly graphs

(2016) Roye Rozov et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Complete genome sequence and cell structure of Limnochorda pilosa, a Gram-negative spore-former within the phylum Firmicutes

(2016) Miho Watanabe et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

The novel extremely acidophilic, cell-wall-deficient archaeon Cuniculiplasma divulgatum gen. nov., sp. nov. represents a new family, Cuniculiplasmataceae fam. nov., of the order Thermoplasmatales

(2016) Olga V. Golyshina et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

A physiological role for HgII during phototrophic growth

(2016) D. S. Grégoire et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbes in mercury-enriched geothermal springs in western North America

(2016) Gill G. Geesey et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microbial mercury methylation in Antarctic sea ice

(2016) Caitlin M. Gionfriddo et al.   Nature Microbiology

Metagenomics uncovers gaps in amplicon-based detection of microbial diversity

(2016) Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh et al.   Nature Microbiology

Massive horizontal gene transfer, strictly vertical inheritance and ancient duplications differentially shape the evolution of Bacillus cereus enterotoxin operons hbl, cytK and nhe

(2015) Maria-Elisabeth Böhm et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Aquifer environment selects for microbial species cohorts in sediment and groundwater

(2015) Laura A Hug et al.   ISME Journal

Metagenomic resolution of microbial functions in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes across the Eastern Lau Spreading Center

(2015) Karthik Anantharaman et al.   ISME Journal

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Freshwater discharges drive high levels of methylmercury in Arctic marine biota

(2015) Amina T. Schartup et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Metagenomics-Based Metabolic Model of Nitrate-Dependent Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane by Methanoperedens-Like Archaea

(2015) Arslan Arshad et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Genomic resolution of linkages in carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling among widespread estuary sediment bacteria

(2015) Brett J Baker et al.   Microbiome

Global prevalence and distribution of genes and microorganisms involved in mercury methylation

(2015) M. Podar et al.   Science Advances

Repurposing TRASH: Emergence of the enzyme organomercurial lyase from a non-catalytic zinc finger scaffold

(2014) Gurmeet Kaur et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome Sequence of Candidatus Nitrososphaera evergladensis from Group I.1b Enriched from Everglades Soil Reveals Novel Genomic Features of the Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea

(2014) Kateryna V. Zhalnina et al.   PLoS One

Mercury Reduction and Cell-Surface Adsorption by Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA

(2013) Haiyan Hu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Sources, Pathways, and Effects

(2013) Charles T. Driscoll et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercury Methylation by Novel Microorganisms from New Environments

(2013) Cynthia C. Gilmour et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercuric reductase genes (merA) and mercury resistance plasmids in High Arctic snow, freshwater and sea-ice brine

(2013) Annette K. Møller et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The Synechocystis PCC6803 MerA-Like Enzyme Operates in the Reduction of Both Mercury and Uranium under the Control of the Glutaredoxin 1 Enzyme

(2013) B. Marteyn et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A Novel Mercuric Reductase from the Unique Deep Brine Environment of Atlantis II in the Red Sea

(2013) Ahmed Sayed et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Genetic Basis for Bacterial Mercury Methylation

(2013) J. M. Parks et al.   SCIENCE

Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi

(2012) F. E. Loffler et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Geoarchaeota: a new candidate phylum in the Archaea from high-temperature acidic iron mats in Yellowstone National Park

(2012) Mark A Kozubal et al.   ISME Journal

Gene duplication as a mechanism of genomic adaptation to a changing environment

(2012) F. A. Kondrashov   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Mercury Resistance Operon: From an Origin in a Geothermal Environment to an Efficient Detoxification Machine

(2012) Eric S. Boyd et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Environmental, Biogeographic, and Biochemical Patterns of Archaea of the Family Ferroplasmaceae

(2011) Olga V. Golyshina   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Terminal Oxidase Diversity and Function in “Metallosphaera yellowstonensis”: Gene Expression and Protein Modeling Suggest Mechanisms of Fe(II) Oxidation in theSulfolobales

(2011) M. A. Kozubal et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanogens: Principal Methylators of Mercury in Lake Periphyton

(2011) Stéphanie Hamelin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Deferrisoma camini gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, dissimilatory iron(III)-reducing bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent that forms a distinct phylogenetic branch in the Deltaproteobacteria

(2011) G. B. Slobodkina et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Mercury reduction and complexation by natural organic matter in anoxic environments

(2011) B. Gu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metabolic Flexibility of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

(2011) Caroline M. Plugge et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Lifestyle in a Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Chimney Revealed by the Genome Sequence of the Thermophilic Bacterium Deferribacter desulfuricans SSM1

(2010) Y. Takaki et al.   DNA RESEARCH

In Inland China, Rice, Rather than Fish, Is the Major Pathway for Methylmercury Exposure

(2010) Hua Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

A thermophilic bacterial origin and subsequent constraints by redox, light and salinity on the evolution of the microbial mercuric reductase

(2010) Tamar Barkay et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Organomercurials removal by heterogeneous merB genes harboring bacterial strains

(2010) Mei-Fang Chien et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

Mercury bioaccumulation and trophic transfer in the terrestrial food web of a montane forest

(2009) Christopher C. Rimmer et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(0) by Magnetite

(2009) Heather A. Wiatrowski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. nov.

(2009) O. V. Golyshina et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Methylmercury enters an aquatic food web through acidophilic microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

(2008) Eric S. Boyd et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Crystal Structures of the Organomercurial Lyase MerB in Its Free and Mercury-bound Forms

(2008) Julien Lafrance-Vanasse et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The thioredoxin reductase-glutaredoxins-ferredoxin crossroad pathway for selenate tolerance inSynechocystisPCC6803

(2008) Benoit Marteyn et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

PROMALS3D: a tool for multiple protein sequence and structure alignments

(2008) Jimin Pei et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH