Microbial transformations of selenite by methane-oxidizing bacteria.

ABSTRACT: Methane-oxidizing bacteria are well known for their role in the global methane cycle and their potential for microbial transformation of wide range of hydrocarbon and chlorinated hydrocarbon pollution. Recently, it has also emerged that methane-oxidizing bacteria interact with inorganic pollutants in the environment. Here, we report what we believe to be the first study of the interaction of pure strains of methane-oxidizing bacteria with selenite. Results indicate that the commonly used laboratory model strains of methane-oxidizing bacteria, Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) and Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b, are both able to reduce the toxic selenite (SeO₃^2-) but not selenate (SeO₄^2-) to red spherical nanoparticulate elemental selenium (Se

SUBMITTER: Eswayah AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5554269 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature