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Mercury-resistant bacteria and petroleum degradation.

Abstract

The concentration of mercury in water and sediment and in the oil extracted from water and sediment was determined for samples collected in Colgate Creek, located in Baltimore Harbor of the Chesapeake Bay. The concentration of mercury in the oil was 4,000 times higher than in sediment and 300,000 times higher than in water samples. The mercury-resistant bacterial populations of the samples studied have been shown to degrade oil, suggesting these bacteria to be a significant factor in the degradation of oil in Colgate Creek.

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Year: 1974 PMID： 4809908 PMCID： PMC380012 DOI： 10.1128/am.27.1.285-287.1974

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Microbiol ISSN： 0003-6919

8 in total

1. Volatilization of mercuric chloride by mercury-resistant plasmid-bearing strains of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Authors: A O Summers; E Lewis
Journal: J Bacteriol Date: 1973-02 Impact factor: 3.490

Review 5. Mechanisms of microbial resistance and detoxification of mercury and organomercury compounds: physiological, biochemical, and genetic analyses.

Authors: J B Robinson; O H Tuovinen
Journal: Microbiol Rev Date: 1984-06

Mercury-resistant bacteria and petroleum degradation.

1. Volatilization of mercuric chloride by mercury-resistant plasmid-bearing strains of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

2. Factors influencing translocation and transformation of mercury in river sediment.

3. Surface slicks as concentrators of pesticides in the marine environment.

4. Biodegradation of phenylmercuric acetate by mercury-resistant bacteria.

5. Phenylmercuric acetate: metabolic conversion by microorganisms.

6. Oil pollution: persistence and degradation of spilled fuel oil.

7. Mercury resistance in a plasmid-bearing strain of Escherichia coli.

8. Methylmercury: bacterial degradation in lake sediments.

1. Homology and distribution of CO dehydrogenase structural genes in carboxydotrophic bacteria.

2. Microorganisms and heavy metal toxicity.

3. Susceptibility to mercurials of clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated in México.

4. Distribution and characterization of kepone-resistant bacteria in the aquatic environment.

Review 5. Mechanisms of microbial resistance and detoxification of mercury and organomercury compounds: physiological, biochemical, and genetic analyses.

6. Linkage of mercury, cadmium, and arsenate and drug resistance in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

7. Microbial degradation of model petroleum at low temperatures.

8. The ecology of mercury-resistant bacteria in Chesapeake Bay.