The horizontal transfer of large gene clusters by mobile elements is a key driver of
prokaryotic adaptation in response to environmental stresses. Eukaryotic microbes face …

Heavy metal contamination of soil is a serious threat to public health and the environment
and is becoming more and more relevant. Fungi are able to tolerate and even enrich high …

This review aims at the biotechnological evaluation of the wealth of data accumulated in the
last decade on the molecular background of the toxic metal/metalloid tolerance of fungi …

Whether eukaryotic organisms can evolve for higher heavy metal resistance in laboratory
conditions remains unknown. In this study, we challenged a macrofungi, Pleurotus ostreatus …

The mammalian immune system has evolved sophisticated mechanisms to withhold
essential micronutrients from invading pathogens. These processes, collectively known as …

The genomes of pseudomonadspecies display a wide variety of adaptive genes which allow
them to tolerate heavy metal toxicity. Several resistance systems have been directly …

Gram negative bacteria classified as Alcaligenes eutrophus and carrying large resistance
plasmids (generally two) were found in various industrial sites highly contaminated by heavy …

We fully annotated two large plasmids, pMOL28 (164 open reading frames [ORFs]; 171,459
bp) and pMOL30 (247 ORFs; 233,720 bp), in the genome of Cupriavidus metallidurans …

It is known that organisms have developed various mechanisms to cope with cadmium (Cd)
stress, while we still lack a system-level understanding of the functional isomorphy among …

Two full-length cDNAs (OmZnT1 and OmFET) encoding membrane transporters were
identified by yeast functional screening in the heavy metal tolerant ericoid mycorrhizal …