Original Research Article I Volume 2 I Issue 2 I 2014
GENETIC ENGINEERING TO EXPRESS METAL BINDING PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOREMEDIATION
Pattanayak, B; Padhi, S; Dhal, N.K
Biolife; 2014, 2(2), pp 442-451
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203882
Abstract:
Plants and microbes respond to heavy metal toxicity in different ways. Such responses include immobilization, exclusion, chelation and compartmentalization of the metal ions and the expression of more general stress response mechanisms such as ethylene and stress proteins. Understanding the molecular and genetic basis for these mechanisms will be an important aspect of developing plants as agents for the phytoremediation and microbes for bioremediation of contaminated sites. One recurrent general mechanism for heavy metal detoxification in plants and other organisms is the chelation of the subsequent compartmentalization of the ligand-metal complex
Keywords:
Phytoremediation,Bioremediation,Detoxification,Metallothioneins,Phytochelatins.
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Article Dates:
Received: 2 April 2014; Accepted: 19 May 2014; Published: 7 June 201
How To Cite:
Pattanayak, B, Padhi, S, & Dhal, N.K. (2022). GENETIC ENGINEERING TO EXPRESS METAL BINDING PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOREMEDIATION. Biolife, 2(2), 442–451. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203882
