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Reduction of Mercury to the Elemental State by a Yeast

Published:1974-05 Issue:5 Volume:27 Page:870-873
ISSN:0003-6919
Container-title:Applied Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Microbiol

Author:

Brunker Richard L.¹²,Bott Thomas L.¹²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Limnology, Stroud Water Research Center, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

2. Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

Abstract

A yeast of the genus Cryptococcus has been isolated from a stream and was shown to be capable of reducing mercury to the elemental state. The organism grows in Wickerham broth supplemented with high concentrations of mercury (II) chloride (180 mg of mercury per liter) and will metabolize [ 14 C]glucose in this medium as do cells in the absence of mercury. Mercury was associated with the cell wall and membrane, and in vacuoles within the cytoplasm.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/am.27.5.870-873.1974

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