Metals and Metalloids in Photosynthetic Bacteria: Interactions, Resistance and Putative Homeostasis Revealed by Genome Analysis

摘要: Microbial metabolism of metals and metalloids has been a topic interest since the early seventies when it was recognized that bacteria are involved in transformation metal compounds environment. For this reason, bacterial processing inorganic reviewed several times over past decade. However, is first time metal(loid)s photosynthetic considered detail as compared to non-phototrophs. Another aspect touched on for chapter analysis genomes representative phototrophs an attempt reveal common or unique features interactions these with metal(loid)s. This work not only identified new genes linked resistance, but also contributed unify nomenclature used among different species. Based our analysis, similarities differences can be more efficiently future ‘preys’ have either hypothesized described generically uncovered.