Cloned (Comment) | Organism |
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gene merA, recombinant expression in transgenoc Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthium plants using gene transfer by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Transgenic tobacco expressing merA volatilizes significantly more mercury than wild-type plants. Subcloning in Escherichia coli strains DH5alpha and BL21(DE3) | Escherichia coli |
Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
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Hg + NADP+ + H+ | Escherichia coli | MerA catalyzes the bioconversion of toxic Hg2+ to the least toxic elemental Hg0, and is capable of reducing the Hg2+, via NADPH as an electron donor | Hg2+ + NADPH | - |
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Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Escherichia coli | Q93UN8 | plasmid R100; Escherichia coli containing plasmid R100 encoding gene merA | - |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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Hg + NADP+ + H+ | - |
Escherichia coli | Hg2+ + NADPH | - |
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Hg + NADP+ + H+ | MerA catalyzes the bioconversion of toxic Hg2+ to the least toxic elemental Hg0, and is capable of reducing the Hg2+, via NADPH as an electron donor | Escherichia coli | Hg2+ + NADPH | - |
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Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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MerA | - |
Escherichia coli |
mercuric reductase | - |
Escherichia coli |
Cofactor | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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NADPH | - |
Escherichia coli |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | MerA catalyzes the bioconversion of toxic Hg2+ to the least toxic elemental Hg0 | Escherichia coli |