Whole cell biosensors (WCBs) have multiple applications for environmental monitoring,
detecting a wide range of pollutants. WCBs depend critically on the sensitivity and specificity …

Mercury (Hg) and its inorganic and organic compounds significantly threaten the ecosystem
and human health. However, the natural and anthropogenic Hg environmental inputs …

Abstract AlphaFold 2 (AF2) has placed Molecular Biology in a new era where we can
visualize, analyze and interpret the structures and functions of all proteins solely from their …

Mercuric mercury (Hg [II]) is a highly toxic and mobile element that is likely to have had a
pronounced and adverse effect on biology since Earth's oxygenation∼ 2.4 billion years ago …

Abstract Mercury (Hg (II)) is the 16th rarest element present in the earth's crust. Due to rapid
industrialization and urban expansions, the mercury concentration has been elevated in the …

Molecular simulation has been widely used to study microbial proteins' structural
composition and dynamic properties, such as volatility, flexibility, and stability at the …

Microbial chemical transformations play a key role in geochemical cycles of most elements
by changing their redox states and by converting between organic and inorganic forms. As a …

Background: Mercury is a toxic metal that is present in small amounts in the environment, but
its level is rising steadily, due to different human activities, such as industrialization. It can …

The mer operon confers bacterial resistance to inorganic mercury (Hg2+) and
organomercurials by encoding proteins involved in sensing, transport and detoxification of …

An important mechanism for microbial resistance to mercury is its reduction into elemental
mercury (facilitated by the merA gene). Thirty-eight microbial isolates from a variety of …