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  • Simbahan, J.; Kurth, E.; Schelert, J.; Dillman, A.; Moriyama, E.; Jovanovich, S.; Blum, P.
    Community analysis of a mercury hot spring supports occurrence of domain-specific forms of mercuric reductase (2005), Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 71, 8836-8845.
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Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
uncultured bacterium
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analysis of enzyme in several thermophylic crenarchaeal and gram-positive taxa isolates from a hot spring. An essential role for mercuric reductase is evident during growth in the mercury-contaminated environment. Despite environmental selection for mercury resistance and the proximity of community members, the enzyme retains the two distinct prokaryotic forms and avoids genetic homogenization
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