Zinc is a ubiquitous biological metal in all living organisms. The spatiotemporal zinc
dynamics in cells provide crucial cellular signaling opportunities, but also challenges for …

Zinc is involved in a variety of biological processes, as a structural, catalytic, and intracellular
and intercellular signaling component. Thus zinc homeostasis is tightly controlled at the …

Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient for plants and animals. Unfortunately, deficiency of Zn
in humans has increased on a global scale. The main reason of this micronutrient deficiency …

Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most important toxic environmental heavy metals. Cd pollutes
the environment mainly from mining, metallurgy industry, pigments and plastic stabilizers …

Metals are essential for life, and they play a central role in the struggle between infecting
microbes and their hosts. In fact, an important aspect of microbial pathogenesis is the …

We are just beginning to understand the metabolism of heavy metals and to use their
metabolic functions in biotechnology, although heavy metals comprise the major part of the …

What makes a heavy metal resistant bacterium heavy metal resistant? The mechanisms of
action, physiological functions, and distribution of metal-exporting proteins are outlined …

Remediation of sites contaminated with toxic metals is particularly challenging. Unlike
organic compounds, metals cannot be degraded, and the cleanup usually requires their …

Transition metals such as copper are essential for many physiological processes yet can be
toxic at elevated levels. Other metals (eg lead) are nonessential and potentially highly toxic …

Zinc is one of the most abundant nutritionally essential elements in the human body. It is
found in all body tissues with 85% of the whole body zinc in muscle and bone, 11% in the …