Identification of Resistance Genes and Response to Arsenic in Rhodococcus aetherivorans BCP1.

ABSTRACT: Arsenic (As) ranks among the priority metal(loid)s that are of public health concern. In the environment, arsenic is present in different forms, organic or inorganic, featured by various toxicity levels. Bacteria have developed different strategies to deal with this toxicity involving different resistance genetic determinants. Bacterial strains of Rhodococcus genus, and more in general Actinobacteria phylum, have the ability to cope with high concentrations of toxic metalloids, although little is known on the molecular and genetic bases of these metabolic features. Here we show that Rhodococcus aetherivorans BCP1, an extremophilic actinobacterial strain able to tolerate high concentrations of organic solvents and toxic metalloids, can grow in the presence of high concentratio

SUBMITTER: Firrincieli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6514093 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature